2007 Catalog
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Friends School of Minnesota 1365 Englewood Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55104 TIME VALUE DATA May 11, 12, 13, 2007 Friday,May 11 If you have received a duplicate copy, please let us know, and pass the extra to a friend! 11:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M. New Saturday Saturday,May 12 Hours Saint Paul, 10:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M. Sunday,May 13 FROM 35W Minnesota FROM HWY 36 12:00 NOON–4:00 P.M. FROM HWY 280 LARPENTEUR AVENUE At the State Fair Grandstand— FROM HWY 280 Free Admission C O M O CLEVELAND AVE A SNELLING AVE V E Grandstand N U 280 E COMMONWEALTH DAN PATCH Main MIDWAY PKWY Gate P Minn. State Fair 94 Coliseum COMO AVENUE 35W White Shoreview Glacial Ridge Brooklyn Ctr Bear Lake 694 35E E U CANFIELD Growers: A Green Plymouth Crystal 94 Roseville N 36 E 494 Snelling Ave. 694 V 169 Saint Paul Family Business 280 A 394 35E 100 94 D Minnetonka Minneapolis E N N Woodbury ERGY Hosta Takeover! O P Edina 494 ARK 62 M Richfield Y 61 Eden 494 Prairie A Are These Veggies 35W Inver Grove R Heights Bloomington Eagan FROM 94 Organically Grown? 52 Mr. Majestic Shakopee 35E Burnsville marigold, page 12 Photo by Nancy Scherer Bird Gardens 18th Annual Friends School Plant Sale May 11, 12 and 13, 2007 Friday 11:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.• Saturday 10:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M. Sunday 12:00 NOON–4:00 P.M.Sunday is half-price day at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand 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 in Saint Paul near Hamline University, the school has a student body of 142 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. www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com [email protected] • 651-917-0636 GLACIAL RIDGE GROWERS Contents About Friends School . .2 A Green Family Business What’s New . .2 How to “Do” the Sale . .3 Articles New Shopper Tips . .4 Gardening for Birds . .5 Vegetables and Organics . .19 The Medicine Garden . .24 Sorrel Soup Recipe . .25 Hosta Highlights . .27 Hosta Virus X Alert . .27 Plants Annual Flowers . .7–14 Climbing Plants . .28–30 Daylilies . .35 Ferns . .36 Fruit Trees . .47 Grasses . .6 Garden Perennials . .31–46 Herbs . .23–25 Hosta . .37 PHOTO BY PAT THOMPSON PHOTO BY PAT Jeremiah and Gene Stark of Glacial Ridge Growers Lilies . .40–41 rowing plants may not be rocket the pots you see at the sale, and the plants will be Native Wildflowers . .15–17 science, but getting 65,000 plants moved to quonset houses to put down healthy roots. Rare Plants . .22 ready for the Friends School Plant Jeremiah’s father, Gene Stark, started the busi- Roses . .21 Sale is a bit like a NASA count- ness as Greenfingers Farm in 1972 in Nebraska. Shrubs . .47–49 down at Glacial Ridge Growers. With his wife, Muriel, Gene started a greenhouse GMother’s Day week is “Week Zero,” of course. as a way to get young plants for their organic Trees . .49 Henry and I visited their greenhouses during vegetable business. At first it was a summer job— Vegetables . .18–20 Week +9, when Jeremiah Stark was just getting a break from his day job as an elementary school Water Plants . .45 ready to seed some annual flowers. Out in the teacher. He liked it so well that he went full-time Woodland Wild Flowers . .17 greenhouses, the results of earlier seeding work five years later, and he’s been at it ever since. were in evidence—“benches” covered with plug When the family moved back to Gene’s home Indexes trays, each filled with tiny seedlings. town of Prior Lake, Minnesota, in 1982, they brought By Common Name . .50 As Week 9 leads to Week 8, then 7, and the the business with them and a Twin Cities tradition By Latin Name . .51 weather warms, the plugs will be transplanted into continued on page 26 2 Friends School Plant Sale • 2007 www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com About Friends School By Lili Herbert e are delighted you are sup- its 18th year, helps maintain this diversi- porting the Friends School of ty. As a small school, our commitment to WMinnesota’s Plant Sale. If allocating over 12 percent of our budget you have never been to our sale, you are to need-based tuition aid is significant. It in for a treat! The plant sale is one of the means that over one-third of our families largest in the Midwest. It depends on the receive aid. Income from the plant sale volunteer work of hundreds of commu- helps us to keep Friends School accessi- nity members and friends of the school. ble to all interested families. That commitment exemplifies what A great way to learn more about our Friends School of Minnesota is all about. school is to visit our website Friends School is a Quaker school (www.fsmn.org), or call me or Susan serving approximately 150 students in Nagel, our admissions director, to set up kindergarten through eighth grade. a visit to the school(651-917-0636). Or, Here, students receive an excellent aca- when you visit the sale this year, look for demic program embedded in a culture our middle school students (wearing a that teaches and values community, tie-dyed T-shirt), and ask about the expe- peace, simplicity, integrity and equality. All students at Friends School are part rience they have had at Friends School. Our conflict resolution program is of a strong community; we teach and The middle school students work the nationally recognized and provides a way practice what it means and looks like to entire week of the sale, setting up and for all students to learn how to deal with be an active and respectful member of a organizing sections of plants, learning all conflict in a peaceful and productive way. community. about the plants in their section, and get- Our environmental education program As a Quaker school, we believe that ting ready to serve all the visitors to our teaches children to understand human diversity strengthens and enriches all sale. They learn a lot and love to have interrelatedness and connection to the communities. We value diversity in a such a meaningful role in supporting Lili Herbert is Head natural world and gives students broad sense. Our students come from their school. Ask them about it! of School at Friends experience being responsible stewards of different backgrounds, learning styles, Thank you again for supporting our School of Minnesota. resources. and family types. Our plant sale, now in wonderful school! What’s New and Noteworthy Key f the Friends School of Minnesota Gardens (dahlias, page 9), Savory’s Í Full sun Plant Sale was a person, it would be Gardens (hosta, page 37) and Avant ∏ Part sun/part shade old enough to vote! Here are some Gardens (unusual shrubs and trees, page 46). Ó Shade I highlights of what’s new this year. In addition, Dick’s Designs will again be ˜ Minnesota native selling metal work (see page 5). å U.S. native Catalog Rearrangement ˝ Ground cover Last year, a shopper suggested we put Saturday Shipments ‰ Rock garden the catalog in the same order as the rows If you haven’t been to the Plant Sale ç Attractive foliage of tables in the Grandstand. So we’re on Saturday recently, you may not know ´ Edible flowers trying it; hope you like it. that we’ve been restocking. Â Medicinal The sale has been rearranged a bit There is a notation ß in the catalog Ç Culinary (see map, page 3). Grasses have moved up and on the table signs, which indicates ß Saturday restock to the front by the annuals, vegetables including a new subcategory for whether a restocking shipment is expect- ¥ Toxic to humans to the middle, and herbs have moved climbers, and the return of Tea Roses, ed. Remember, restocking happens forward so they are no longer in the which will be blooming for Mother’s before the sale opens for the day on back row of the room. Please note that Day (see page 21). Saturday, so the newly arrived plants may About the the Lily Shop has moved from the west In shrubs and trees (see pages 47–49), be gone if you arrive later in the day. end of the room to the east, along the there’s more as well, including the alphabet Sunday Is Half-Price Throughout, we have back wall. return of blueberries and raspberries, tried to alphabetize If you tried to find the shrubs in small more cool varieties of old favorites like Once again, all remaining plants will by the main common pots last year and couldn’t locate them in magnolia, dogwood, and hydrangea, and be sold at half price on Sunday, from name of each plant, their odd location, you should have no more trees than ever, especially species noon until 4:00 p.m. So stop by and see with variant common what’s left at bargain rates! Please names following the trouble finding them this year since they and varieties with dark foliage and inter- main common name.