We're excited to be part of the 2025 High Desert Garden Tour, put on by the OSU Extension Service and Central Oregon OSU Master Gardeners™.
Posters and ads will be out soon and ticket books will be available online by June 27th. See https://extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/events/2025-high-desert-garden-tour. Cost is $15 per ticket. Ticket books in hard copy will be available at the OSU Extension office in Redmond.
We have been gathering here in many forms for the past six months. Sometimes in a solitary capacity and sometimes in a communal capacity. We started with words of gratitude that were fed to our worms to carry as a message into the soil. Take a moment and see if you can recall the gratitude you offered in the spring? If you recall and want to share please take a moment now to speak the gratitude to all of us gathered on our closing day in the garden.
A love letter to our dear garden-a prayer-a blessing
From the moment our bare hands and feet touched your spring warm soil you inspired our senses.
You drank from our hands
You allowed our tender ministrations as we turned, raked and hoed your beds
You transformed tiny seeds into vibrant nourishment
All season long you offered simple, succulent bounty and revealed mysteries that lifted our spirits
So many gifts you've exchanged in our presence.
When we are here with you, you impart the message "we are one"
As we enter yet another season, we honor your need for silent regeneration.
Rest well our dear garden
Ashay, Ahoe, Amen
Soft-neck total is 630 so a share is 19 bulbs.Hard-neck total is 166 so a share is 5 bulbs. (have longer stems for ID, foreground)
Spiritual Rewards of Gardening
Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.
BY MARIA POPOVA
Something happens when you are in a garden, when you garden — something beyond the tactile reminder that, in the history of life on Earth, without flowers, there would be no us. Kneeling between the scale of seeds and the scale of stars, touching evolutionary time and the cycle of seasons at once, you find yourself rooted more deeply into your own existence — transient and transcendent, fragile and ferociously resilient — and are suddenly humbled into your humanity. (Lest we forget, humility comes from humilis — Latin for low, of the earth.) You look at a flower and cannot help but glimpse the meaning of life.
Perhaps because the life of a garden is also a vivid reminder that anything of beauty and radiance takes time, takes care, takes devotion to seed and sprout and bloom, gardens have long been living cathedrals for the creative spirit.
Here, drawn from a lifetime of marginalia on great writers' and artists' letters and diaries, essays and novels, is a florilegium of my favorite exultations in the rewards and nourishments of gardens: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/07/writers-artists-gardens/?mc_cid=5ff6bcba7c&mc_eid=c105bd900f
A newly updated guide from OSU on tree fruit disease management……Tom
In this guide, you can learn best pest management practices for your home orchards. Suggested materials and times of application should have activity on the indicated pest. There are many fungicides and insecticides that are effective for managing the diseases and insects listed on the label when used according to the label directions. For more information, see the PNW Pest Management Handbooks, at https://pnwhandbooks.org.
