Events 2008
The Men’s Garden Club of Minneapolis has events throughout the year.
Below is a calendar for the year 2008. Speakers and Special Events are
usually featured in our club newsletter The Garden Spray. The link each month's issue is under the heading for each month below. Click
on it to find out more about that month’s activities. Of course,
if we haven’t gotten to a particular month yet, there will be no
link because the Spray has not yet been published. Use these links
to find copies of the Spray from past years (2001,
2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007). To read the Spray you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader which you can download from here.
Each year as part of Flower, Food and Foto Show in August we select the best photographs submitted. You can view the winners for the past few years by clicking here.
Click on a month to jump to information for that month:
Jan | Feb
| Mar | Apr | May
| Jun | Jul | Aug
| Sep | Oct | Nov
| Dec
Tuesday, January 8, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Program
- New Flowers and Plants to be Introduced in 2008 with Carrie Larson of the McHutchinson Company, plant brokers
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
Garden Spray link
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Tuesday, February 12, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Program
- Tom Carlson, owner of HostasDirect.com and IDealGardenMarkers.com, speaks about his local web-based horticultural businesses and about hostas in all their variety
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
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Tuesday, March 18, 5:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Trip to Macy's First Floor Flower Show Floranova.
- Dale Bachman of Bachman's will speak about the preparation and floral materials from Cuba, Central America and Mexico used in this year's show
- Buses leave to visit the show
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
Plant Sale Order form available here. Completed order forms and checks for payment need to get to Doug Whitney by April 8. Instructions are included in the form.
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Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Program
- "Orchids: Their Care and Cultivation" with Jason Fischer of Orchids, Lrd., in Plymouth.
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
Saturday, April 12, 11:00 a.m.
- Tour of Gerten's Garden Center annual greenhouse
- Tour led by Lou Gerten
- Box lunch to follow
- Details in April Garden Spray
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Tuesday, May 6, 5:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, June 10, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Program
- "The Tropical Collection at the Como Park Conservatory" with Margaret Yeakel-Twum, who talks about recent updates made to the Conservatory builkdings.
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
Saturday, June 21, TBA
- Members' garden tour of four Rochester gardens
- Tour includes motorcoach transportation and lunch
- Departs 8:30 a.m. and returns 4:30 p.m.
- SE corner of Southtown Center parking lot (American Boulevard West and Knox Avenue South)
- Cost $23 - reservations due no later than June 18
- Details in The Garden Spray page 6
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July
Tuesday, July 22, 6:00 p.m.
- Picnic and tour of Perennial Trial Garden
- Lyndale Park Gardens
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August
Saturday and Sunday, August 16 and 17
- Flower, Food & Foto Show
- Entries Saturday Morning - Open to the public Saturday Afternoon and
Sunday
- University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
- State Highway 5
- Chanhassen, MN
Foto Show rules available here
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September
Tuesday, September 9, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Program
- "New Trees, Shrubs and Roses for Minnesota Gardens," with Brenda Wickenhauser of Bailey Nursery in Newport
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
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October
Tuesday, October 14, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Program
- "24 Years at the Helm of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum", with MGCM member and soon-to-retire Arboretum Director Peter Olin
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
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November
Tuesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m.
- Dinner, Business Meeting and Speaker
- "Recent and Up-coming Plant Introductions" with Suzette Nordstrom of Monrovia Nursery
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
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December
Tuesday, December 2, 6:00 p.m.
- Annual Holiday Party
- Awards and Entertainment
- Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
- 49th and Chowen Avenue South, Minneapolis
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