  For
a donation of $50 you may pick ten bouquets of up to 24 stems
from Granny’s Gardens. The program is available June through
October and includes flowers and herbs. You may pick
*everything except sunflowers at any time that is convenient to
you except during school hours. You will receive a Granny’s
Garden Club card that will entitle you to discounts at our plant
sales and special picking days.
This includes herb bouquets from our
extensive collection of herbs including many varieties of basil,
chives, thyme, oregano, Rosemary, scented geraniums, bee balm,
Mexican heather, lavender and many more.
It makes a great gift for yourself, a
friend, relative or special child. It is also a great way to
recognize a special employee or say "Thank you."
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 To join the club, print out and complete and mail the registration
form. You will receive a card identifying you
as a member. The club operates on the honor system.
We offer a wide variety of flowers and the type of flowers changes from
week to week. You are welcome to pick anywhere on the grounds.
We have gardens in the back of the schools as well as in front. You
may pick any day or time of the day (Early morning or late evening is best
for the flowers.) For more information, e-mail
or call 324-2873.
Hi Granny,
We happily picked our first bouquet last Tuesday, stopping by to say
hi on our way. The flowers were beautiful in many vases at our end-of-year
Girl Scout ceremony. When putting the flowers in the vases, we discovered
a jumpy tiny (smaller than a half-inch) praying mantis. We placed
it out in the border of our woods by some flowering weeds. Low and
behold about 4 days later we found another one among the flowers in the
vase. This one was bigger, at least an inch. My husband did
an internet search, discovered that they molt, and actually found the shed
exoskeleton on the flowers! We were going to transport him back to
the garden, but he (or she!) jumped onto the counter, and we put it out
in the yard again. I'm guessing they might have come from the white
flowers, lots of tiny buds together, on a large plant near the sidewalk
between the elementary and primary (sorry, I don't know the name of it).
They were really awesome tiny critters, perfectly formed, and looked like
they were looking at us when we were talking, moving their heads like they
were trying to get a better look! Anyway, in my 40 years I have seen
the adults, but never these tiny babies. At a field trip to Green
Acres, their egg cases were pointed out to us, attached to the taller grasses.
We were all excited to see them, and learned a lot about them in our search
on the computer. Apparently if they're large enough they can eat
hummingbirds! Thought you might want to know about our discovery.
Thanks for making the gardens!
Margie, Doug, Brennah, Audrey, and Kaden Kentz
*Occasionally we may have a "Please do
not pick." sign on a plant where we plan to collect seeds or a
specimen plant where we only have one or two. |
