Friends School of Minnesota Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage 1365 Englewood Avenue PAID Saint Paul, MN 55104 Minneapolis, MN A Simple Tradition…A Beautiful Garden Permit No. 1767 TIME VALUE DATA Friends If you have received a duplicate copy, please let us know, and pass the extra to a friend! 15th annual INSIDE:The 2004 Plant Society Directory from the Minnesota State Horticultural Society pages 39–41 School State Fair Grounds COMO AVENUE Plant Saint Paul, TO HYW 36 Minnesota SNELLING AVE TO HYW 36 Sale LEXINGTON AVE LEXINGTON EN ERGY PARK DR IV E Featuring articles about TLER ROUT 36 CE BU E urban gardening: Snelling Ave Hamline Ave Lexi PIER I-35W ngton Ave • Container gardening HEWITT AVENUE Larpenteur Ave • Growing more vegetables Hamline Friends School University ALBERT Plant Sale in small spaces 280 Como Ave ENGLEWOOD AVENUE • Composting Energy Park MINNEHAHA AVENUE Pierce Butler University • Heirloom tomatoes I-94 UNIVERSITY AVENUE May 7th, 8th, 9th, 2004 Friday 11:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M. SNELLING AVE HAMLINE AVE LEXINGTON AVE LEXINGTON Saturday 9:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M. Sunday 9:00 A.M.–4:00 P.M. 15th Annual Friends School Plant Sale May 7th, 8th and 9th, 2004 Friday 11:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.• Saturday 9:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M. Sunday 9:00 A.M.–4:00 P.M. at Friends School, 1365 Englewood Avenue, St. Paul Friends School of Minnesota Thank you for supporting Friends School of Minnesota by purchasing plants at our sale. Friends School of Minnesota prepares children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding, and creativity. We are committed to the Quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity. Located at 1365 Englewood Avenue in Saint Paul, the school has a student body of 150 and a faculty of 16. Started by Quakers and peace activists in 1988, Friends School of Minnesota has main- tained a strong commitment to serving families of religious, ethnic and economic diversity. The school’s website address: www.fsmn.org Phone number: 651-917-0636 Containers:Full of Blooms Contents BOOK REVIEW BY SARA PAYNE erstin Ouellet’s easy-to-read, materials most frequently used to create plant About the School . .2 information-packed book, containers, pointing out the strengths and What’s New . .2 Contain Yourself, should appeal to weaknesses of each. Ouellet shares her person- How to “Do” the Sale . .3 many interested in container al favorite—moss containers—and doesn’t hes- gardening. Whether you’re a itate to tell you they are difficult to keep Articles Kveteran gardener looking for new ideas, a adequately watered. Her final message about struggling gardener hoping to increase the sur- containers is that there are “three things that Composting . .22 vival rate of your hanging baskets, or a com- are very important in a container—drainage, Container Gardening . .1 plete novice wanting to venture into new drainage and drainage.” Heirloom Tomatoes . .23 territory, you’ll find this book a source of prac- Basic elements of garden design are present- tical advice and creative ideas for the design, ed concisely: color; texture; proportion; plan Vegetables . .24 creation and care of container gardens. habit; and growing needs. One tip Ouellet Ouellet’s book is well-organized into three offers gardeners new to design is to use a color Plants parts: The Basics and Beyond, wheel, available at crafts and Annual Flowers . .4–9 Plant Profiles, and Planting art supply stores for a few Climbing Plants . .20–21 Recipes. dollars, to help visualize pleas- It is not necessary to read ing color combinations: Ferns . .29 the book sequentially. complementary, harmonious, Grasses . .19 Gardeners with emerald monochromatic, and thematic Garden Perennials . .25–35 thumbs can skip ahead to Part (for example, patriotic red, 3 to look over the 101 design white and blue). There are Herbs . .14–15 “recipes.” If you’re looking for eye-catching photos of con- Hosta . .28 new things to plant, Part 2 pro- tainer gardens illustrating Lilies . .27 files excellent candidates. The these types of color combina- entire book is richly illustrated tions, different uses of Native Wildflowers . .36–38 with colored photographs, textures, proportion of con- Orchids and Rare Plants . .10 averaging one to two photos tainer to plants, and the Roses . .11 per page. Even if you are a growth habits of plants. master gardener, you may find Ouellet suggests that “con- Shrubs . .16–18 new tips for the creation and tainer gardening is a little bit Trees . .18 care of container gardens in like baking: If you use high- Vegetables and Fruit . .12–13 Part 1, and it is well worth at Contain Yourself quality ingredients, you’ll least a quick skim. 101 Fresh Ideas for Fantastic achieve better results.” Plants Water Plants . .33 In The Basics and Beyond, Container Gardens in containers have limited Woodland Wildflowers . .37 Ouellet outlines key considera- resources available to them, so by Kerstin P. Ouellet tions in creating container choosing the best materials is Plant Society Directory gardens and provides basic Published by Ball Publishing important. Ouellet outlines planting and care instructions. $24.95 the qualities to look for in a for Minnesota, 2004 . .39–41 She opens with a discussion of potting mix (garden soil is not Common Name Index . .42 Continued on page 24. More articles on urban gardening pages 22–24. Latin Name Index . .43 2 FSM Plant Sale • 2004 About Friends School By Mark Niedermier hank you for looking to students to observe the world directly, Friends School for your gar- read, conduct experiments, and ask Tdening needs. Our annual questions. Then we ask them to express Plant Sale, now in its 15th year, has what they’re learning through writing, staked out a unique place among speaking, acting, creating visual art, Minnesota gardening events. We’re real- making music, and teaching others. ly glad that you have chosen to join us. There is a special emphasis on the com- Many people who shop at the plant munity life of the classroom and school sale wonder about the school that puts it because we view this as preparation for on: What is Friends School of Minnesota children to participate actively in all about? Here are some common ques- democratic life as adults. tions and answers about FSM. I hope Q: What are the profits of the Plant Sale used they help you understand us a bit more, variety of religious denominations, but for? and maybe even consider us for your their families share an affinity with the A: Last year’s profit was approximate- children’s school. ethical culture of Friends School. ly $80,000. We hope to do even better this year. All profit directly supports the Q: How many students and what grades do Q: What is the mission of Friend School? school program, particularly our need- you have? A: Friends School of Minnesota pre- based financial aid program. Over our A: We enroll around 150 students in pares children to embrace life, learning, school’s 16-year history, we have provid- grades kindergarten through eight. The and community with hope, skill, under- ed more than $1.5 million in need-based average lower school (grades K–4) standing, and creativity. We are commit- financial aid. Each purchase you make at classroom has about 16 students and the ted to the Quaker values of peace, the Plant Sale helps to ensure that a average middle school (grades 5–8) justice, simplicity and integrity. classroom has about 20 students. Friends School education is available to Q: What is the school’s educational children regardless of a family’s ability Q: Are you a religious school? philosophy? to pay. A: Yes, we are affiliated with the A: Friends School is guided by the I hope these few points are a helpful Religious Society of Friends—better principles of progressive education. We start for learning about Friends School. known as Quakers. About 20 percent of believe that children learn best when Thank you for your support! our students come from Quaker families. they work actively to solve problems and Mark Niedermier is Head of School at Friends The other students come from a wide collaborate with others. We encourage School of Minnesota. What’s New in the Sale Key s usual, we have been working New Suppliers Í Full sun hard getting great prices for We found several new suppliers, who ∏ Part sun/part shade Aunusual plants. There are over have allowed us to offer you better Ó Shade 1,500 entries in this catalog (now eight prices on perennials and shrubs, includ- ˜ Native pages longer). It’s inevitable that things ing Aubin Nurseries in Manitoba—cold ˝ Ground Cover get confusing in ordering and organizing hardy and low cost. They also have pro- ‰ Rock Garden something this big. So if there’s any- vided us with blue and purple Hybrid ´ Edible flowers thing we missed that you want, let us Tea Roses, something we have not been  Medicinal know, so we can get it for next year. able to offer before. A Note on Prices Ç Culinary Double the Wisteria, Smaller Pots, Lower Prices Greenhouses need to be heated, as you might Double the Fun imagine. You probably noticed your heat bills We increased our order of shrubs in About the were higher this winter, and the people who This year we have ordered Wisteria smaller pots, and have included roses in alphabet grow plants did, too. from two sources so we really should smaller pots for the first time. We are Throughout, we have have some this year.