Linda Rogers, Tracey Carroll, and Jennifer Boardman volunteered for 1.5 hours on the December 11, 2025 workday; our last formal workday of 2025. Linda decorated the deer topiary with a red garland “scarf”, making it festive for the holiday season. Tracey pruned the Amsonia (Arkansas Bluestar) back, as it was finished with its Fall display […]
We had a productive workday at Little Lake Eureka on Saturday, November 22 at 10am. Charla Destry, Linda Rogers, and Jennifer Boardman attended. Several of the items we attended to are listed below: We plan to have our last workday before the 2025 reporting deadline on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 10am and would love to
A regularly scheduled workday was held at Little Lake Eureka at 2pm on October 23. Darla Danvers, Linda Rogers, and Jennifer Boardman earned sanctioned garden work hours that day. We continued on with the plant ID tag relabeling project and are proud to say that it is close to being completed now. This is an
It was a beautiful day to be volunteering at Little Lake Eureka on October 9. Linda Rogers and Jennifer Boardman attended. We discussed the design of the garden and assessed which plants were performing well there. The smaller Rose of Sharon was removed because it was not performing well and we discovered that the soil depth
We had a workday at LLE September 25. Kim Yonkee, Linda Rogers, and Jennifer Boardman attended. It had rained the night before and the garden beds were very wet. Most of the workday was spent relabeling plant tags with UV resistant printed labels recommended by the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. They are supposed to
A regularly scheduled workday was held at Little Lake Eureka on Thursday, September 11 beginning at 9am. Kim Yonkee, Darla Danvers, and Jennifer Boardman volunteered their time to work. Weeding and pruning helped the garden look more tidy. Flowers in bloom at this time, in addition to the cleomes, include the Night Blooming Tobacco (Nicotiana
CCMG had a workday at Little Lake Eureka on Saturday, August 30 at 9am. We did some necessary weeding and removed some of the cleome plants to allow other plants, like the purple fountain grass, to show. Iris blades were cut back, ground cover was thinned, and we discussed the possibility of moving some of
A regularly scheduled workday was held at Little Lake Eureka on July 24, 2025. Linda Rogers (chaired), Darla Danvers, and Kim Yonkee volunteered for sanctioned work hours. Flowers in bloom at this time are: Cleome (just beginning), Tall American Bellflower, Zinnia, and Datura (to name a few). The Datura offers protection from deer for the
Darla, Linda, and Jennifer attended. We worked on removing larkspur and poppy plants that had died back from the garden. Seeds from the pods were shaken back into the garden soil to replenish the flower seed bank there. General weeding was done, and a stirrup hoe was used with great results to remove ground cover
We had a workday at Little Lake Eureka on June 12. Kim Yonkee, Darla Danvers, Linda Rogers, and Jennifer Boardman volunteered to help that day. We marked more spring narcissus bulb clumps for division and then removed their dead leaves, pruned and tidied up the lamb’s ear, cleaned the spillway drain (important to prevent flooding
Our workday last Thursday, May 22 was a productive one. Volunteers that earned sanctioned work hours included: Kathryn Harvey, Darla Danvers, Melissa Sunshine, Linda Rogers, and Jennifer Boardman. We removed debris from the Little Lake Eureka spillway grate. It is important for this to stay clear to prevent flooding of the flower beds. We added
A workday was held at Little Lake Eureka on Thursday, May 8. Kim Yonkee, Linda Rogers, and Jennifer Boardman volunteered to work on the garden. Immediately, we noticed that many of our plants had been browsed by deer, most likely. A few days earlier, we had beautiful, dark blue irises in bloom, and today, only
