Uplands Garden Club Bulb Sale

Uplands Garden Club members Harriet Ridnour and Reesha Wyman braved a very cold and blustery fall morning to sell bulbs at the Mineral Point Farmers Market at Watertower Park on October 20th.

A wide variety of colorful spring bulbs from the club's Fall Bulb Sale were available. 

Planting instructions included. 

The club is returning to the Farmers Market's final two weekends in the (much warmer!) greenhouse at Aspen Ridge Home and Garden Center in Mineral Point on October 27th and November 4th.

October 2018 Meeting: Planting Design With Perennials - Ben Futa, Director of Allen Centennial Garden

Ben Futa is Director of the Allen Centennial Garden at UW Madison. He is passionate about connecting people to plants, and one other, through public gardens. With a background in landscape architecture and sustainability studies from Purdue University and Indiana University South Bend, Ben has directed the operations of the Allen Centennial Garden and its programs for the last 3 years.


Ben's talk at the October, 2018 Uplands Garden Club meeting focused on Planting Design with Perennials. Ben made recommendations for well-behaved perennials for our gardens and shared tips such as taking photos of our gardens in full season to help with those puzzling spring planting decisions (brilliant!) and invaluable resources like the Plant Calculator on the Midwest Groundcovers website.

 During the snack break members perused donated gardening books brought in for the taking by generous garden club members.