Chad, Hilary, and Matt's weekend

Sept 27-29, 2013

The weekend practical started Sept. 27 at the grand hour of 8:00am. Lucas gave instruction what direction he was heading and wanted us to finish by the weekends end. As we were only there Friday and Sunday due to tree planting on Saturday we had a bit of work to finish. Louise Weekes who donated her entire collection to Fanshawe had some plants that had hybridized and have yet to be fully identified. They were placed in sections off to the side by the hoop houses.  Preparing for the CLT testing Jeff R. took it upon himself to lift plants from the CLT testing area. Our task was set out for us as we were to pot up all the plants that had been lifted.

After dividing and potting all the daylilies, roses, allium and various other plants, we searched through the taller grass patches to find what may have been overlooked or missed within the designated rows.

Saturday was tree planting day down at veteran’s memorial parkway in London. Many Autumn Blaze maples were planted as well as Ginkos. It was very successful and many volunteers came to help out. It was a learning experience for all of us and good preparation for CLT training coming up soon. The lunch and entertainment was great and very enjoyable.

                Sunday was our final day and more potting of plants and cleanup in the polyhouses. More young maple trees were repotted and re-staked into a 3-gallon pot. Also, we re-potted viburnum, lilac, ninebark, and silver maple. After that was finished, we were focused on cleaning up the pots in the polyhouses and deadheading the hostas. We cut down the sedums and watered the seed plugs Lucas placed in the polyhouse. Now we are writing this blog and finishing up this weekend of work.