Saint Paul Garden Club

Larsen-Stewart Garden Tour and Walk Around Lake of the Isles
2024-09-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Larsen-Stewart Garden Tour and Walk Around Lake of the Isles
Join us to walk through this amazing garden at the historic Lake of the Isles ASID home of Kris
Rose’s brother, John and his husband, Mike. This stunning garden features an English garden
shed along with 200 dahlias, a kitchen garden, native shade garden and chickens. After our
garden tour, we will walk around the scenic Lake of the Isles.
Location: 2002 West Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Host: Penny Rendall
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SPGC Membership Meeting
2024-09-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Como Park Conservatory, 1225 ESTABROOK DRIVE MN, SAINT. PAUL, MN, 55103, United States
General Meeting Agenda
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM Business Meeting
11:00 AM Program
12:00 Lunch
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Program: Garden History & Design
Garden Design
Ariel Dressler, Horticulture Supervisor at Como Conservatory, will speak about the design
process of the flower shows at the Como Sunken Gardens. She will show some of her favorite
exhibits and share the maneuvers it takes to get plants to bloom at the appropriate times. After
lunch we will enjoy a tour of the Autumn Sunken Garden Show.
Lead host: Mary Cullen
Hosts: Tina Allison, Betsy Martin, Mary Parenteau

Rice Park Fall Planting
2024-09-20 10:00 - 13:30 | Rice Park, 109 4th Street W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Please join us as we transition Rice Park from summer to fall. We need help with planting the urns and doing some splitting and planting in the south gardens. Friday, September 20th, 10:00 am until 1:30 pm.
Rice Park is located downtown St. Paul between the Saint Paul Hotel and the Ordway Theatre, 109 W 4th St. St. Paul MN 55102. Parking can be difficult near Rice Park especially if an event is happening at the same time. We would love for everyone to be able to participate in the fun of planting so please consider carpooling. If you can’t find a parking spot, please flag down or call one of the Rice Park Committee members and we will help you pull into to the park area itself.
If you’re able to join us, please bring:
– Shovel
– Garden Trowel
– Clippers
– Step stool/ladder
– Garden gloves
– Watering cans, 1 or 2
The committee usually doesn’t have extra tools so please bring your own.
2024 – 2025 SPGC Rice Park Contacts:
Kris Rose: Kris.Rose@outlook.com 651-246-0201
Joan Palm: joanapalm@att.net 651-260-2895
Missy Pfeiffer: melissapfeiffer035@gmail.com 651-354-0696
Christine McGinnis: mcginniscem@gmail.com 651-253-9254
Tina Allison: tsallison23@gmail.com 319-899-4196
Robyn Wefel: robynwefel@yahoo.com 715-821-1143
Please contact them with any questions!

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HOFU ~ A Saint Paul Garden Cub Flower Show
2024-09-24 - 2024-09-26 | Como Park Conservatory, 1225 ESTABROOK DRIVE MN, SAINT. PAUL, MN, 55103, United States

Preview Party for HŌFU ~ A Club Flower Show
2024-09-24 18:30 - 21:00 | Como Park Conservatory, 1225 ESTABROOK DRIVE MN, SAINT. PAUL, MN, 55103, United States
Please join us for the opening night of HŌFU A Club Flower Show. The Preview Party includes a a delicious buffet, demonstration and narrative of a Japanese Tea ceremony in the Tea House in the Charlotte Partridge Ordway Japanese Garden, self guided garden tours, and the Flower Show Awards Ceremony.
Buffet 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Japanese Tea Ceremony 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Awards Ceremony 7:30 PM
Cost $100/Person
RSVP by September 8
Guests Welcome
Questions? Contact Angel Crandall angelcrandall@gmail.com ~ 651.353.8553

SPGC Board Meeting
2024-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Faye Duvall’s Home, 2550 Manitou Island, White Bear Lake, MN, 55110, United States
9:30 am Coffee
10:00 am Business Meeting
Location: Faye Durall’s Home
2550 Manitou Island, White Bear Lake, MN 55110
Hosts: Mary Gilbertson, Teresa Moe

SPGC Membership Meeting
2024-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Town & Country Club, 300 N Mississippi River Blvd, St. Paul, MN, 55104, United States
General Meeting Agenda
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM Business Meeting
11:00 AM Program
12:00 Lunch
Program: Conservation Committee
Water Quality in the Twin Cities
Shelly Samuel, Met Council Environmental Services
Shelly will talk about water conservation and water quality in the Twin Cities. The council treats
wastewater for 111 cities and townships. They monitor air and water quality and plan for long-
range water supply needs to meet future demand.
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Lead host: Diane Duvall
Hosts: Betsy Cobb, Rojean Rada, Shelia McCarr

Decorating for the Holiday Tea Dance. Felting Workshop and More. Session One
2024-10-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Birchwood Village City Hall. 207 Birchwood Avenue in Birchwood, MN 55110.
Professional crafters will teach us how to felt small objects to be used for decorations for our Tea Dance centerpieces. We plan on making felted hedgehogs , mushrooms and small birds among other things. We also hope to work on our paper stars. Lunch is included.
The fee for the tools and instruction is $10, payable at the workshop.
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Plant Bulbs for the Spring '25 Sunken Gardens at the Como Park Conservatory
2024-11-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Como Park Conservatory, 1225 ESTABROOK DRIVE MN, SAINT. PAUL, MN, 55103, United States
A Garden History and Design Committee Event . The group of committee chairs that selected bulbs, and worked on the design of the Spring 2025 Sunken Gardens will plant bulbs for forcing. Contact Gretchen Cudak if you would like to participate.

SPGC Tea Dance - Sort, Stuff, and Stamp Invitations
2024-11-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Nancy Wagner’s home, 570 Montcalm Place, St. Paul, MN, 55116
Please join us in preparing the Tea Dance invitations for mailing.
Date & Time: Wednesdy, November 6th, 1:00 to 4:00 PM
Location: Nancy Wagner’s Home, 570 Montcalm Place, St. Paul, MN 55116
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Rice Park Winter Planting
2024-11-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Rice Park, 109 4th Street W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Come one, come all!
Please join in as we transition the beautiful Rice Park urns from fall to winter.
Tuesday, November 12th. 10 AM – 12 PM

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For some Holiday Urn inspiration, please consider signing up to help with planting the Holiday Urns at Rice Park.
Please dress warmly and bring:
– Jug of water
– Garden trowel
– Step Stool
– Pruners/Clippers
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2024-20245SPGC Rice Park Committee:
Kris Rose: kris.rose@outlook.com 651.246.0201
Joan Palm: joanapalm@att.net 651-260-2895
Missy Pfeiffer: melissapfeiffer035@gmail.com 651-354-0696
Tina Allison: tsallison23@gmail.com 319-899-4196
Christine McGinnis: mcginniscem@gmail.com 651-253-9254
Robyn Wefel: robynwefel@yahoo.com 715-821-1143
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Botanical Arts Committee. Fine Arts Gallery Visit and Tour
2024-11-13 10:30 - 12:30 | Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 2501 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis,, MN, 55404, United States
Presenter: Regan Golden, Artist and Associate Professor of Fine Art at the Minneapolis College
of Art & Design.
Regan is a painter and photographer focused on native plants in Minnesota. Through her
intricate watercolor paintings and detailed photographs, she celebrates the resilience of these
remarkable plants as a source of power and healing. Regan will give a brief artist talk and share
some of her artwork, as well as the beautiful books about plants and gardens that inspire her
work. Join Regan for this unique view into her art practice and a peek into the wonderful
collection of botanical books at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design Library.
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Please meet in the main lobby at MCAD.
Parking available on street, behind MCAD, or in the adjacent Minneapolis Institute of Art parking
garage.
Host: Nancy Apfelbacher

Create and Decorate for the Holiday Tea Dance. Session Two
2024-11-13 13:30 - 15:30 | Birchwood Village City Hall. 207 Birchwood Avenue in Birchwood, MN 55110.
We will be making wreathes, paper bag stars, Froebel stars, and small fairy gardenesque felted wool objects, including hedgehogs, mushrooms, gnomes, little birds, etc. Plus pine cone garlands, pop up paper spheres and dried grass stars, among other things.
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SPGC Membership Meeting
2024-11-20 10:00 - 12:00 | North Oaks Golf Club, 54 East North Oaks Road
General Meeting Agenda
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM Business Meeting
11:00 AM Program
12:00 Lunch
Program: Floral Design Committee
Floral Design with Color Theory
Dee Dee Hoffman—November Workshop same day
Owner and Designer of Botany Creative Works, Dee Dee will be discussing Color Theory with
us. She is highly knowledgeable working with color in floral design. She will demonstrate color
theory through her floral creations and help us get a fresh focus on color combinations for the
holidays and evermore.

Holiday Woodland Floral Design Workshop
2024-11-20 13:00 - 15:00 | North Oaks Golf Club, 54 East North Oaks Road
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An Optional Floral Design Workshop will follow the November 20 meeting at North Oaks from 1:00pm-3:00pm. Class size is limited to 25 members. Choose either a Woodland Pave Centerpiece or a Woodland Sphere Centerpiece for the holidays.
Supplies will be included, but you may bring any additional foraged materials.
Please bring design tools such as floral knives or snippers along with an apron. Both arrangements maybe somewhat different due to availability of supplies. Cost is $100.00
Send $100 fee via Zelle or to Ann Tessier.

Create and Decorate for the Holiday Tea Dance. Session Three
2024-12-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Birchwood Village City Hall. 207 Birchwood Avenue in Birchwood, MN 55110.
We will be making wreathes, paper bag stars, Froebel stars, and small fairy gardenesque felted wool objects, including hedgehogs, mushrooms, gnomes, little birds, etc. Plus pine cone garlands, pop up paper spheres and dried grass stars, among other things. Lunch is included for this session.
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SPGC Board Meeting
2024-12-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Carol Kolb’s Home, 998 Goodrich Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55105
9:30 am Coffee
10:00 am Business Meeting
Location: Carol Kolb’s Home
998 Goodrich Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
Hosts: Betsy Cobb, Sarah Meek

Create and Decorate for the Holiday Tea Dance. Session Four
2024-12-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Birchwood Village City Hall. 207 Birchwood Avenue in Birchwood, MN 55110.

Create and Decorate for the Holiday Tea Dance. Session Five
2024-12-14 10:00 - 14:00 | Birchwood Village City Hall. 207 Birchwood Avenue in Birchwood, MN 55110.

Create and Decorate for the Holiday Tea Dance. Session Six - It's a Wrap
2024-12-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Intercontinental Hotel. 11 Kellogg Boulevard, St. Paul, MN
The last craft moment will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Kellogg Street, Saint Paul on Sunday, December 15th, the day of decoration placement and of the Tea Dance, 10:00 am.

SPGC 39th Annual Holiday Tea Dance
2024-12-15 16:00 - 20:00 | Intercontinental Hotel, St Paul Riverfront, 11 Kellogg Boulevard, St Paul, MN, 55101, United States
Celebrate the season with our 39th Holiday Tea Dance. Bring your friends and family for an event filled with holiday cheer, good friends, delicious food, cocktails, crafting, and dancing at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront. Invitations will be mailed approximately 5 weeks before the party.

SPGC Membership Meeting
2025-01-15 18:30 - 20:00
General Meeting Agenda: Zoom Evening Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82282804213?pwd=[REDACTED]
Program: Horticulture Committee
All About Martagons and Then Some
Rose Martinson, lily grower, judge and SPGC member will discuss her expertise and love of
Martagon Lilies. Rose grows and distributes many different and beautiful lily varieties. She will
focus on Martagons and maybe slip a few other lily favorites into her presentation.
Assisted by Michelle Riedel
Zoom host: Sarah Meek

SPGC Board Meeting
2025-02-12 10:00 - 12:00
9:30 am Coffee
10:00 am Business Meeting
Location: Unity Church—Unitarian
733 Portland Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104
Hosts: Betsy Cobb, Rojean Rada

SPGC Membership Meeting
2025-02-19 10:00 - 12:00 | North Oaks Golf Club, 54 East North Oaks Road
General Meeting Agenda
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM Business Meeting
11:00 AM Program
12:00 Lunch
Program: Photography & Floral Design Committees
The Transformative Power of Dailiness,
MJ Hoffman
Every day for over a decade, Mary Jo Hoffman has made a photograph of found nature — no
subject is too small or too ordinary. For Hoffman, a former aeronautical engineer, this daily
ritual cracked open profound revelations about the connectedness of all things, the importance
of place, and her own life.
Lead host: Tracy Stutz
Hosts: Sheila McCarr, Amy Murphy

SPGC Rice Park Weekly Maintenance
2025-03-02, 2025-03-09 - 2025-03-10, 2025-03-16 | Rice Park, 109 4th Street W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E084DABAF23A6F85-rice10#/
Please consider signing up to help with maintenance once – or better yet – twice a season! It’s easy, fun, a great way to connect with fellow SPGC members, and can spark a renewed sense of civic pride. You can go any day of the week for your volunteer slot, it does not have to be on Monday.
We usually work in pairs. If you don’t have a partner, no worries. Either someone will sign up to join you or please contact one of our committee members and we’ll be sure you don’t go alone.
Below is information about what to do, where to go AND parking options. Attached to this sign-up (scroll to the bottom) is also a document you may print to bring with you if that is more helpful.
During the growing season, and early fall, you and a partner can expect to spend 1 to 3 hours in the park per week each time you sign up.

Tasks include picking up any obvious litter and gardening, deadheading, trimming, and tidying all 10 urns plus the garden spaces along the south side of the park, which consist of the two corner entrance points and the sun garden that runs alongside the road with the J.J. Hill and Public libraries.

Suggested tools to bring are gardening gloves, clippers, a trowel, rake, broom, garbage bags, a stool to reach the urns, and anything else you usually use at home. If you are able, please also bring some jugs of water. While the city is contracted to water three times a week, we sometimes have issues. Our autumn urns will be thirsty especialy when the city’s watering program ends in October. The urns will thank you for your efforts.

In the chilly months, your team should typically expect to spend an hour or less in the park per time you sign up.

Tasks include picking up any obvious litter and tidying all 10 urns plus casting an eye over the garden spaces along the south side of the park, which consist of the two corner entrance points and the sun garden that runs alongside the road with the J.J. Hill and Public libraries.

Suggested tools include gloves, clippers, garbage bags and a stool to reach into the urns. Please bring some water before winter really sets in to help hold the displays upright until they freeze solid. In the winter we do more “zhuzhing” and less gardening, straightening twigs and clipping broken branches.

Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, when your shift is complete, please contact Kris Rose with your observations: Kris.Rose@outlook.com or 651-246-0201 If you see graffiti, please send a picture and description of the location too.
Location: 109 West 4th Street Saint Paul, MN 55102 – Rice Park is located downtown between the Saint Paul Hotel and the Ordway Theatre.
Parking is available in metered spots on the street around Rice Park, at the Lawson or other nearby ramps. If you just can’t find a spot it’s okay to pull up into the park area itself. All four corners have curb cuts that allow access to the paved walkways that are wide enough for cars.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Kris Rose
SPGC Rice Park Committee Chair

Garden History & Design Committee. Plant for Como Spring Sunken Garden Show
2025-03-18 - 2025-03-19 | Como Park Conservatory, 1225 ESTABROOK DRIVE MN, SAINT. PAUL, MN, 55103, United States
Plant for Como Spring Sunken Garden Show
All club members are invited to take part in the assembly and planting of the Spring 2025
Sunken Garden display. Choose from a morning or afternoon time slot and participate in the
magic happening!
Tuesday, March 18, 2025. 9:30 AM-Noon and 1-3:30 PM,
Wednesday, March 19, 2025. 9:30 AM-Noon and 1-3:30 PM,

Spring Flower Show at Como Conservatory
2025-03-21 - 2025-04-27 | Como Park Conservatory, 1225 ESTABROOK DRIVE MN, SAINT. PAUL, MN, 55103, United States
Stop by the Como Conservatory and check out the results of our planning
and planting!

Botanical Arts - Crop Art Workshop
2025-03-26 10:00 - 13:00
Liz Schreiber, illustrator, and artist will conduct a hands-on workshop using the crop art
technique. This award-winning artist will share her MN State Fair ribbon winning pieces and
conduct a three-hour class, including all supplies to finish a 7 ½ X 7 ½ personal crop art
creation. What a chance in a lifetime! Designs will be worked out beforehand with Nancy.
Location: Liz’s home
3000 Polk Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Host: Nancy Apfelbacher
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