Saturday, February 15, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
A Very Special Event....Stay Tuned
⭐⭐⭐ Coming soon... an announcement about a SPECIAL EVENT ⭐⭐⭐
Details are being worked on to handle:
1. Reservations, which will be confirmed upon payment well in advance of this April event.
2. Process for receiving contact information for all those who register. We need this to contact those registered if we must do so for some unanticipated reason.
3. Promotion of the event far and wide to WGC members, garden club members elsewhere, and all those excited to attend once they know the details. All will be invited and welcomed.
Yes, Who, What, and When will be posted here soon. The Where is the Willow Community Center.
You can count on this page to have the most current information about the event.
More soon, including a "save the date" announcement.
The Willow Garden Club
Also...
The December workshop for creating holiday centerpieces was well attended and had excellent feedback. If you missed it in 2024, maybe you'll get another chance to participate in 2025. 😊
Happy New Year!
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This is a test to see if linking to an email address would allow a reader to initiate registration from this blog posting. Completing the registration would involve payment, but this would be a start:
Initiate registration by providing three pieces of information via email to cabinpotteryalaska@gmail.com
1. Your First and Last Name
2. Phone number for calling or texting
3. Email address
Registration Fee:
* Current Willow Garden Club Members $__________ Non-Members $__________
Payment must be received by _(Date)__________________.
Options for payment are Cash or Check
Cash or check in advance, to be received by treasurer Kathy Mailer by __(date)__________________ Make checks out to: Willow Garden Club and mail to:
Kathy Mailer, _(address)______________________________________________________
Once your three pieces of information and your payment are received, you will be emailed a registration confirmation which is your ticket! Please bring it with you on April 26.
Sorry, no refunds. Consider gifting your registration confirmation to a gardening friend if for some reason you are unable to attend. We thank you for understanding and for gifting if that's what you decide to do.
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I have several questions/concerns about the process but don't want to put them online even though this is simply a test posting not intended for a public audience. ~ Carol
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Cindy Forsyth is considered our local Go-To expert on storing Dahlia and Begonia tubers. This is a free program. If you purchased baskets with begonias or pots of dahlias, you won’t want to miss this program.
HOW TO PREPARE DAHLIA AND BEGONIA TUBERS FOR WINTER STORAGE
WHEN: AUGUST 29 @ 6PM
WHERE: THE GREEN HOUSE OF CINDY AND RON FORSYTH
10170 BUCKINGHAM PALACE DRIVE. TURN RIGHT, THEN IMMEDIATE LEFT. CONTINUE 7/10 MILE. TURN RIGHT. THERE WILL BE A GARDEN CLUB SIGN AT THE TURN.
MAXIMUM ATTENDEES IS 20. SIGN UP IN ADVANCE TO BEV BLAKESLEE 907-250-7498
PLEASE BRING A SMALL CHAIR (FOLDING CHAIR IS PERFECT)
Saturday, July 20, 2024
A BIG THANKS to all who participated in the Willow Garden Tour 2024 in one way or another, whether you prepared your gardens, mowed your grass, worked behind the scenes, or simply spent a glorious day visiting the properties.
We need your help, please. This message came from one who was on the tour:
Ring lost on Willow Garden Tour. It’s likely on the road near Cheria Jerue’s garden. The ring is wide silver with a Tlingit Raven design. Please DM Barrie Blackman-Green if found. Thank you!
If you have difficulty with doing a direct message, please send an email to carolgoltz@gmail.com and I will be happy to help connect you with the owner of the ring. Thank you!
Friday, July 5, 2024
Willow Garden Tour 2024: Descriptions and Directions
39th Annual Willow Garden Tour
Directions and Descriptions of Gardens
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Visit gardens in any order Saturday, July 20 from 10 am to 4 pm.
Look for Willow Garden Tour signs at each stop. Please, no pets on the tour.
Rest stops are available at the Willow Community Center and Library, Newman’s Hilltop Tesoro Service Station, Willow Townsite and Newman Memorial Park one mile in on Willow Creek Parkway.
Willow Garden Tour July 20, 2024 Gardens
Karen Mattson has lived in Alaska since 1968, painting Alaskan scenes, florals and still life in watercolor, oils and acrylics. In addition to her art she loves to spend time in her large perennial garden where she has plants from as far away as the Himalayan Mountains. Karen is a past President of the Willow Garden Club, a Master Gardener and we are excited to have her garden on the 2024 Tour. Karen is hosting the lunch stop from 11 am to 1 pm. Bring your own lunch, a chair or blanket to spread on the lawn. All other gardens will be open during the lunch break.
Directions —28466 George Parks Highway. Turn off the Parks Highway onto Buckingham Palace, turn right past Hatcher Pass Polaris. Go to the end of the dirt road where it turns left into the driveway.
Cheria Jerue and her husband are in their third summer at this location but the hanging baskets, large fenced lawn and long border planting are well established and immaculate. Cheria starts annuals from seed to mix with perennials, for her hanging baskets and vegetable starts. The site has a remarkable come back past. The home was built in 2017 after the original structure was destroyed in the 2015 Sockeye Wildfire.
Directions —17438 N Heights Place location of “Serenity Heights Place”Air B&B. Turn west off Parks Highway at Mile 73 follow in 1 mile on N Dell M Rd (or West Gratiot Drive past Trailside Cafe) to Maleia Lane, left on Serenity Drive, right on Heights Place.
Jeanine Anderson has a large work-in-progress yard and garden with two hefty rock terraces leading down to Long Lake. Loads of lovely annuals in baskets frame the entry of the new home replaced after a devastating fire. This lovely lake-front home will be back next year so see what this eager gardener has done on her work-in-progress landscaping.
Directions — 11105 N. Lakes-O-the-Su Drive. Long Lake Road /Crystal Lake Road to Lakes-O-the-Su Drive.
Vicky Stephens has created a vegetable garden by forming terraces on the south-facing steep slope in front of her home of 32 years. The garden is an example of how to manage your landscape for diverse terrain. Over the past 20-plus years, Vicky has brought in by hand more than 500 concrete blocks to create paths between the terraced slopes where her vegetables grow.
Directions — 13771 Front Road. From the George Parks Highway turn east on Willow-Fishhook Road, continue 9.8 miles. Watch for a small fire station on left. Front Road will be the next left turn.
Carol Goltz’s WillowAK Pottery is a personal studio where functional "pottery with personality" is created and displayed in a lovely crafts shop in a beautiful lakeside setting. Ornaments from garden to Christmas, plus many more exquisite pottery pieces available for sale. Carol’s husband Keith maintains an impeccable lawn and garden.
Directions — 25879 W. Southlake Drive
From the Parks Highway turn west onto Willow Creek Parkway, left on Crystal Lake Road, left on Shirley Lake Road, right on Michigan, left on West Southlake to first driveway on left.
Check Willow Garden Club Blog for further updates:
http://willowgardenclub.blogspot.com/
Willow Garden Tour 2024....Saturday, July 20
The descriptions of and directions to the participating gardens on the self-guided tour are available at https://willowgardenclub.blogspot.com/2024/07/willow-garden-tour-2024-descriptions.html . A fun way to see and learn more about what is happening in Willow and to meet others interested in gardening and art.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
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