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Calling All Rose Enthusiasts and Garden Helpers 

Marcie Katz
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Looking for Master Gardeners who love roses, like to work with roses, and want to learn more about roses.   

Our beautiful Demonstration Rose Garden needs a new Garden Enhancement Mentor and other HELP! We had been fortunate to have a team of dedicated rose helpers and a wonderful GEM for the last several years, but unfortunately Joanne Mitani has stepped down from being the GEM of the Rose Garden. Her group of merry helpers has dwindled due to health and other issues. Since this is one of our most beautiful and prestigious gardens, it requires weekly dead heading (anyone need rose petals?), pruning several times a year and, of course, weeding. Since the GEMs are just getting ready to start working in the gardens, this is the perfect time for new volunteers to step up and fill their shoes. The Garden Enhancement Committee will initially tackle the weeds by laying down weed cloth so it will be easier for the new GEM and helpers to manage. This position needs to be filled, please! 

We are also looking for a replacement GEM for the Waterwise Garden, as Monette Hoffmeister will also transition out, after she does some spring maintenance to the garden. Waterwise is a special garden with plants from all over the world that are drought resistant, as well as Oregon native plants. It is small but mighty, with color all year long and includes trees, shrubs, perennials, ground covers and bulbs. If drought-tolerant plants are your passion, this is the garden for you! 

If you want to be a GEM or helper in either of these gardens, please contact Marcie Katz at marciek10@gmail.com. 

And last, but not least, the Garden Enhancement Committee is looking for a few good helpers. We meet weekly from February to October for 2 to 3 hours to clear pathways, put up signs and brochure boxes, maintain the Gathering Place with a cut flower garden and the Fig Grove. We guide Garden Tours through the gardens, sponsor art groups and basically keep the grounds beautiful. If this sounds like something you would be interested in doing, please contact Janine Salvatti at lesandjanine@gmail.com. 

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