GARDENERS' COMPANION: Service Project Overview for 2014

There are currently fourteen approved Service Projects for Hickory County Master Gardeners. This article will list all the projects and volunteers. All Project Managers are invited to contribute additional garden-related histories, current successes and challenges and future plans for their project areas. Most welcome would be anecdotal stories, photos, and volunteer profiles for each project at any time. Please email to Gardeners' Companion Project Manager.

Public support and comments are always welcomed in the comment section below all articles. If there is anything the public would like to see in these local gardens, please let us know. The Project Managers will take all suggestions into consideration when making future plans. By making suggestions in the comment sections below the articles, the public as well as Master Gardeners can see and understand what the public wants and can best serve with expert guidance from MU Extension. Please use this valuable tool.

Weaubleau Memorial Garden

Location: Hwy 54, Weaubleau, MO

Project Manager: Deanna Loeffler
Volunteer: Deanna Loeffler

Plants: Maple (Silver) Tree, Sky Pencil Juniper, Rose of Sharon Shrub, Double Red Knockout Roses, Daffodils, Euphorbia, Crape myrtle (Red Rocket)

Weaubleau Memorial Garden (Master Gardener area to the rear)

Weaubleau Memorial Garden

Wheatland Settler's Village

Location: Off Hwy 54 on the square, Wheatland, MO

Project Managers: Deanna Loeffler/Mardi Schultz
Volunteers: Deanna Loeffler, Mardi Schultz, David Stryker

Plants: Blanket Flowers, Spirea (Little Princess)/Lime Green, Barberry (Pigmy)/maroon, Rose (Knockout-Pied), Crape myrtle (mid-size), Sedum (Autumn Joy), Daylilies, Roses (Knockout-Red), Grass, Lirope, Red Eden Climbing Rose, Guarda (Sparkle white), Lemon Thyme.

Herbs: Rosemary (Rosmarinus offcinalis) Cultivars Irene & ARP, Orgeano (Origanum vulgare), Rose - Knockout "Blush," Lavender Purple Lavence, Hyssop (Agastache rupestris) Sunset Apricot, Sage (Salvia offinalis), Pinapple Sage (Salvia elegans), Thyme - Lemon (Thymus x citriodorus), Hyssop - Blue (Hyssopus officialis), Fennel Bronze (Foeniculum vulgare), Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus), St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum), Dill (Anethum graveolens), Horehound (Marrubium vulgre), Comfrey (Symphytum officinale), Rue (Ruta graveolens), Scented Geraniums (Pelarg onium-Snowflake)

Wheatland Settler's Village - Center Gardens

Wheatland Settler's Village - Herb Garden Area

McCarty Senior Center Landscaping
Location: Hwy 54, Wheatland, MO
Project Manager: David Stryker
Volunteers: Dee Cauvel, Elaine Piper, Mary Forshe, Eveyln Brinley, Beti Pearson, Joan Geltmacher
Plants: General plant beautification of grounds surrounding McCarty Senior Center adding annuals grown from annual plant sale. Recently added 2 beds of 5 boxwoods each to corners of walking trail.

McCarty Senior Center Landscaping

McCarty Donation Garden
Location: Hwy 54 behind McCarty Senior Center, Wheatland, MO
Project Manager: David Stryker
Volunteers: Dee Cauvel, Elaine Piper, Mary Forshe, Evelyn Brinley, Beti Pearson, Joan Geltmacher
Plants: Variety of garden vegetables in 40'x100' existing garden to be used in the kitchen at McCarty Senior Center including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, onions, pumpkins, blackberries. Garden expansion in 2014 included 4-4'x75' raised beds to be able to rotate crops more efficiently.

McCarty Donation Gardens & Greenhouse

Greenhouse
Location: Hwy 54 behind McCarty Senior Center, Wheatland, MO
Project Manager: David Stryker
Volunteers: Dee Cauvel, Elaine Piper, Mary Forshe, Eveyln Brinley, Beti Pearson, Joan Geltmacher
Plants: Raise flowers for Annual Fundraiser Plant Sale, occasional small vegetables off season and all plants for Service Project Gardens throughout the county. Plants for sale in 2014 included:
ANNUALS:
BEGONIAS—BIG RED & BIG ROSE.
CALIBRACHOA—NOA RED GLAZE, BLUE LEGEND, & CHERRY BLOSSOM.
COLEUS –KONG JR.
GAZANIA –NEW DAY MIX
GERANIUM ZONAL—MAESTRO DARK RED, LIGHT PINK PARFAIT & SALMON.
GERBERA—JAGUAR—MIX FORMULA.
IPOMEA -SWEET POTATO VINE—MARGUERITA (LIME) & BLACKIE.
N.G. IMPATIENS—DEVINE MIX.
LANTANA—EVITA ORANGE & YELLOW.
PETUNIAS –PRETTY GRAND MIDNIGHT, BLUE STAR, & ROSE STAR
PRUSULANE (ROSE MOSS) –TOUCAN-MIX HOT
SNAPDRAGONS—ARROW MIX.
SUNPATIENS—SALMON.
TORENIA—KAUAI MIX.
VINCA—TITAN—DARK RED, & PURE WHITE
PERENNIALS:
GAILLARDIA (BLANKET FLOWER) -MESA YELLOW
ASSORTED HERBS
ASSORTED VEGETABLES

Greenhouse

Greenhouse & Volunteers from Several Projects Help to Pot Plant Plugs

Galmey VFW
Location: Hwy 254, Galmey, MO
Project Manager: Barbara Manard
Volunteers: Barbara Manard

Plants: Two beds; one has Roses, Peony, Mums, Hollyhocks, Vinca; other bed with flagpole has Dwarf Nandina, 2 Knockout Roses, day lilies, Mums, and various annuals.

Galmey VFW

Pittsburg Community Building

Location: Off Hwy 64, Pittsburg, MO

Project Manager: (contact MU Extension Office in Hermitage)

Volunteers: Linda Davis, Robin Brown

Plants: Crepe Myrtles (Hot Pink - Tall), Purple Bugle, Yellow Otella Lilies, Burning Bushes, Rust Mums, Extensive Bulbs, Roses, Guara, Maiden Grasses.