June 2025 Janet Miller Garden

Janet Miller in her garden, viewed from Fountain St in Mineral Point. This is a garden designed to be viewed from above, but there are also pathways for walking through the Garden. Special features of the Garden to entertain children include: frogs, birds, hedge hogs and rabbit statues. There are also plants to touch such as Lamb’s Ear and Turtle Head.

February 2020 Meeting: Explore Color in Your Garden

At our February meeting we had fun learning and exploring the power of color in the garden with a presentation and hands on activity led by Uplands Garden Club member, Roxanne Reynolds-Lair.

Topics covered included:

-Which colors are “warm” and which are “cool”

-What feelings and emotions are triggered when you combine colors

-Which color combinations create harmony and which create contrast

-What colors look best with your house and other permanent features

-How do you keep the color interest alive in different seasons

Roxanne is a Wisconsin native, born in Dodgeville. She spent several years in Los  Angeles as Chief Information Officer at FIDM/the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, a college of 7500 students focused on careers in Fashion, Interior and Graphic design. Roxanne and her team won several awards for their innovative implementation and use of technology.

Throughout her career, Roxanne had a passion for color which she used in her fashion and interior design choices. Now retired and once again back in Dodgeville, she continues to play with color. 

Roxanne recently joined the ranks of Wisconsin Master Gardeners, focusing on landscape design and creation of her bungalow garden in the Arts and Crafts style. In 2019, she created a display for the Iowa County Master Gardener booth on key points of landscape design incorporating the color wheel.

Before the presentation began we all selected a color palette of three colored squares of felt, then we used these colors to create our garden color "story board."

Thanks to Roxanne for a fun and informative program!

June 2016 Meeting: Garden Design - Scott Moore

The June meeting of the Uplands Garden Club featured a presentation on garden design by Scott Moore of Sandstone Nursery in Mineral Point followed by a tour of Shake Rag Alley’s gardens including the Lind Pavilion landscaping designed by Scott and Shake Rag Alley garden projects funded by Uplands Garden Club grants.

Shake Rag Alley's Lind Pavilion

The meeting took place at Shake Rag Alley's newly renovated Lind Pavilion at five point corners, the old Quonset Hut that previously housed an auto parts shop. Now updated, the building serves as classroom space and is available to rent for meetings and other functions.

Scott talked about design considerations in planning the large sweeping garden area in front of the building, which is in its infancy having just been planted in the fall of 2015. Over 300 grasses and perennials were planted in drifts mimicking a natural prairie setting.

Sharon Stauffer then led a tour of five garden beds on the Shake Rag Alley main campus which from 2007 through 2015 have been redesigned and replanted utilizing Uplands Garden Club grant funding - the Coach House Front Gardens, the Ellery House Side Garden, the Log Cabin Circle Garden, the Potters House Walkway Garden, and the Ellery Patio Hill Garden.

Ellery House Side Garden

Coach House Front Garden