Spring Flower Festival 2011

My first Kingwood Spring Flower Festival and I took home two ribbons.  Day of the show turns out all I had to enter was a hosta leaf and a Mountain Bluet.  But that was enough as both took home a ribbon.  Second place hosta leaf and Honorable Mention Mountain Bluet.

I had high hopes for a herb basket design and also to bring in an iris.  But my chives, for the basket design and my iris were on their last hurrah just the day before.  By show day, they were not show worthy.  The hosta plant was given to me last year by my good friend Kathy M.  The Mountain Bluet came from a plant I got last year, which was an extra from the herb garden.  The show was great fun, hanging out with Elin D and Lynn H.  Next blog I will show some of the other exhibits -

Kingwood Bunny Party / Kingwood Spring Flower Festival

Well today was the Kingwood Spring Flower Festival.  The Kingwood Herb Society was in charge of the Kingwood Bunny Party.  David Wood wrote a book about the year in a life of a Kingwood Bunny and that is how it started.  For more info on his book see my March 4th blog.  His wife Pat L wrote a book on Lasagna Gardening.  She was giving a lecture on Lasagna Gardening and he did a bunny party with his book.  It was a long day with a lot of preparation.  Had to come up with buckeyes, acorns, milkweed pods that included the seed.  It was a tall order for this time of year and one weeks notice.  Bonnie H came up with a brilliant idea to give out peacock feathers.  Day before, we iced many cookies and I baked 48 cupcakes, which turns out to be four dozen.  It has been a long time since I did math!  Others baked some as well.  We also iced the cupcakes.   At the party I handed out goodies and wore a bunny mask.  I took some cute pictures on this project.  For more pictures go to the Kingwood Herb Society on Facebook..  So let's look at a few of them!



Welcome to the Bunny Party





Those Bunnies are Nancy P and Kay Hostetler



Cute kids getting their picture by Lucy.



David Wood handing out milkweed seeds.  Don't let too many get away!



And finally - the kids favorite part.  Everyone gets a peacock feather from Bonnie H!



My day at Kingwood...Thyme in the Herb Garden

Wednesday was a cold, rainy and miserable weather day.  When hasn't it been lately in Ohio.  Radar said rain was headed out so we headed into the Herb Garden.  I was working on trimming the thyme clock.  Here is a picture of what I was aiming for.  With the on and off rain, we called it a day just after break so it didn't end up looking like this when I quit.  Bonnie H and I went to work on a sign project in the service building instead!

A Year in the Life of The Kingwood Bunnies

At the Kingwood Herb Society meeting last night we found out about our part in the Kingwood Spring Flower Festival, which takes place on April 30th this year.  David Wood wrote a book on the Kingwood Bunnies inspired after finding a family of rabbits in a nest during a spring tour of the garden years ago with his granddaughter. Books can be found on Amazon.com or most Mansfield bookstores.  $1 from every sale goes to Kingwood Center.  This year he will be reading his book in the Gazebo area during the Spring Flower Festival.  We will be winding the kids through the Herb garden to the Gazebo and providing them with veggie shaped cookies for the story time.  Sounds like it will be great fun!

Kingwood by the Numbers Countdown - Four Days

Tea Garden

FOUR areas in the herb garden (located near the workshop and beside the rose garden).  Tended lovingly by Glenna Sheaffer and the Kingwood Herb Society.



Vertical Gardening
jar designed by Pat H and Carol S

 

Culinary Garden

Thyme Clock Garden

Snow Bunnies



Lucifer



Lucy

Ok, the snow bunny in the middle was visiting my back yard last night.  He reminded me how Lucifer and Lucy turn into snow bunnies this time of the year in the Kingwood Herb Garden.  I saw them today as I was working on my peony project, and yes they had turned into seasonal snow bunnies.  Lucifer has been a long time resident of Kingwood.  He previously lived in the old herb garden when it was up closer to Kingwood Hall.  In 2009, when the herb garden moved down close to the rose garden, he followed and invited a friend.