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Chairmen's Welcome Chairmen’s Welcome Tonight we ask, “How does your garden grow?” The question seems apropos during this season of tremendous change and growth at Powell Gardens, Kansas City’s botanical garden. The recent completion of an updated strategic plan for the Gardens under new Executive Director Tabitha Schmidt, and the current Capital Campaign, led by Eric Tschanz, will pave the way for Powell Gardens’ future and enable the Gardens to better serve an even broader community. If you are here tonight, it is because you have been moved in some way by the magic of Powell Gardens, you appreciate how special it is to Kansas City, and you want to help it grow. Thank you. Every ticket purchased and table sponsored, every hard-to-find plant and one-of-kind experience on which you bid, helps to provide critical funding for youth education at the Gardens, making it possible to expand and enhance initiatives to teach children about healthy living, STEM subjects, growing plants, and more. With your support, Powell Gardens can continue to grow these efforts, becoming the region’s leader in botanical education and providing even more children with unique learning experiences in the Heartland Harvest Garden, the nation’s largest edible landscape. Our honorary chair, Alan Branhagen, left an indelible mark on the Gardens during more than 20 years as Director of Horticulture. Tonight, we show our appreciation for his manifold contributions to Powell Gardens and celebrate his legacy here, including tireless work throughout the years sourcing the rare and unique plants that make this an auction unlike any other. So, how does your garden grow? With superb staff and true-blue volunteers; with an event committee beyond compare; with friends who give and friends who bid; we thank you, one and all. Ashley Broockerd & Anne Riker Powell Under a Blue Moon 2017 Chairs Page 2 UNDER A BLUE MOON Underwriter American Century Investments Benefactors Country Club Bank Jon & Juli Ellis George &Wendy Powell Nick & Mary Ann Powell Partners Clay & Katherine Barton Peter & Lynne Brown FCI Advisors Doug & Yvette Kenney Bob & Jeanie Latz Table Sponsors Ashley Broockerd Larry McMullen Burns & McDonnell Bruce & Becky Monke Commerce Bank Muriel McBrien Courtney Earnest Kauffman Foundation Bob & Devan Hartnett David & Anne Riker Powell Jim & Ann Houx Peter & Cappy Powell Husch Blackwell Prairie Capital Management Tom & Ann Isenberg Ray & Arlyn Silvey Chuck & Elizabeth Johnson Marvin Snyder Travois UNDER A BLUE MOON Page 3 Table Hosts Tim & Trisha Drape Larry & Marcia Hawk Mark Sappington & The Westport Garden Club David McGee Rodger & Pat Wright Patrons Sheldon Andrew Wayne Long & Craig Sole Ford & Diane Brent Mark & Kandi McCasland Jill Bunting John & Diane Phillips Robert and Lynne Cohen Robert & Debbie Phillips Event Donors Atterbury Family Jonathan & Nancy Lee Perry & Kathy Atha Kemper Byron & Rosemary Banta Kissick Construction CBIZ Mary Lockton Donald & Natalie Cohen Jay & Cindy Longbottom Dan & Sandi Collinson Bill Malouche Ann Dickinson Ford & Christine Maurer Tom & Eileen Drape Marsha Pope Brian & Dody Gates Everist Tuck & Susan Spaulding The G.W. Curt Thomas & Van Keppel Company Peter Sunderman Page 4 UNDER A BLUE MOON Table of Contents Schedule for the Evening page 5 Herb-Inspired Menu page 6 Auction Rules & Procedures page 7 Live Auction Items pages 8-12 Super Silent Auction Items pages 13-22 Evergreen Trees pages 23-24 Small Trees/Large Shrubs pages 24-26 Evergreen Shrubs pages 26-28 Trees pages 28 Deciduous Shrubs pages 29-30 Perennials pages 30-35 Tropicals and Other Unhardy Plants pages 35-38 Containers pages 38-39 Donors of Plants and Auction Items pages 40-42 Committee Members and Volunteers pages 43 Powell Gardens Board of Directors pages 44 UNDER A BLUE MOON Page 5 Schedule for the Evening June 11, 2017 5:00 Silent auction and reception Hosted wine, beer, “Floralia” cocktail, herbed teas and hors d’oeuvres on the Terrace Gardens outside the Visitor Center 6:15 North Terrace closes to new bids 6:30 South Terrace and Conservatory close to new bids Guests may begin moving down the south garden path through the Terrace Gardens to their table in the tent. Your table is assigned, but you may choose any available seat at your table. 7:00 Welcome from Executive Director Tabitha Schmidt 7:10 Live Auction with Dick Wilson of KCMO-FM Radio and The Nigro Brothers Charity Auctioneers 7:30 Al Fresco Dinner from Lon Lane’s Inspired Occasions 9:00 Checkout in the Visitor Center lobby (see page 7) GROWING HEALTHY CHILDREN Powell Gardens is home to the Heartland Harvest Garden, the nation’s largest edible landscape. This 12-acre Garden illustrates the journey of food from seed to plate in a natural setting. Last year, more than 4,000 students benefited from grade-appropriate lessons that lead them through the basics of planting seeds, performing maintenance, harvesting food, preparing and eating food fresh from the garden, and composting the waste. Maintaining this living classroom at Powell Gardens means there are weeds to pull, companion plants to introduce, insects to control, vehicles and tools to service, grass to cut, and seeds to plant, grow and harvest. YOU make all of this possible with your generous gifts tonight. FUND-A-NEED The Under a Blue Moon Fund-a-Need portion of our program honors Alan Branhagen, former Director of Horticulture for more than 20 years. We pay tribute to Alan as tonight’s Honorary Chair. In this role, we invited him to identify a place at Powell Gardens that has meaning to him. His response was not a place, but “Plants, Plants, Plants.” With this in mind, we ask you to support tonight’s Fund-a-Need and the plants in the Gardens that Alan helped create, such as the Island Garden, Fountain Garden, Conifer Garden, Heartland Harvest Garden, and the Magnolia Collection. Your Fund-a-Need donation also will help provide for plants and their care for all of the collections throughout Powell Gardens. Page 6 UNDER A BLUE MOON AL FRESCO HERB-INSPIRED DINNER FROM LON LANE’S INSPIRED OCCASIONS PEPPERED LAVOSH AND RIPE OLIVE FOCACCIA BREADSTICKS GARDEN BASKET CHOPPED SALAD Chopped romaine, tomato, cucumber, artichoke hearts, egg and green onion. Served with a lemon thyme vinaigrette and a fresh herbed red wine vinaigrette. We invite you to enjoy an interactive herb-pairing by garnishing your salad with fresh snips of herbs from Powell Gardens. Choose from the select basils, French tarragon, or lemon thyme provided on your table. Bon appetit! TRES MAJOR TENDERLOIN WITH SALSA VERDE Grain-fed Midwestern beef seasoned with thyme. Served with Salsa Verde, featuring capers, shallots, chopped parsley and extra virgin olive oil. LEMON AND GINGER TEA POACHED SALMON Glazed with a “hot toddy” (bourbon, lemon and honey) glaze. Garnished with preserved lemon and chopped Italian parsley. COUSCOUS WITH FRESHLY CHOPPED TOMATO, GREEN ONION AND CURRANTS Dressed with a lemon and roasted garlic vinaigrette. ROASTED GREEN BEAN, GRILLED RED ONION & TOASTED PECAN SALAD Dressed with balsamic vinaigrette highlighted with Dijon mustard, shallots and thyme, then topped with crumbled feta cheese. RAINBOW CARROT SALAD WITH PINE NUTS AND KALAMATA OLIVES Tossed with green onions and chopped cilantro. Dressed with a honey and red wine vinaigrette. LEMON-LAVENDAR SUGAR COOKIES AND CHOCOLATE & ORANGE MINT COOKIES POWELL GARDENS CHOCOLATE MINT PUDDING AND PINEAPPLE MINT PUDDING ROASTERIE COFFEE, DECAFFEINATED UNDER A BLUE MOON Page 7 Auction Procedures & Checkout SILENT AUCTION Each item or group of items has a bid sheet marked with its name and lot number. Bid increments appear on the left. To bid, clearly write YOUR bid number on the next open increment line. Watch for some items with BUY IT NOW at a premium price. You can enjoy your evening without worrying about losing the bid! Illegible or incorrect bid entries will be disqualified. An announcement will be made 10 minutes before auction closings. The Silent Auction will close on the North Terrace at 6:15 p.m. and on the South Terrace and Conservatory at 6:30 p.m. PLEASE STOP BIDDING when the announcement is made. LIVE AUCTION We have selected 7 items plus Fund-a-Need, listed on pages 8-11 of this program, for the Live Auction. The Nigro Brothers Charity Auctioneers will conduct the Live Auction before dinner, with master of ceremonies Dick Wilson of KCMO-FM. When bidding, please hold your auction paddles high. The auctioneer will announce the winning bid number. Live Auction bids will be added to your invoice. CHECKOUT PROCEDURE Invoices for the Live and Silent auctions will be delivered during dinner. If you leave credit card information as you check in, a paid invoice for any purchases will be delivered and you will not have to wait in a checkout line. Credit card information is secure and will be promptly shredded. If you did not leave your credit card information, please pay at the checkout table in the Visitor Center using a credit card, check or cash. Four checkout lines will form according to bidder number. All items will be positioned by bidder number in front of the Visitor Center. Retrieve your car, drive to the front of the Visitor Center and pick up your items. Volunteers will be on hand to direct and help load items. PLEASE remove all items by the end of the evening or make arrangements for pickup during the following week. Page 8 UNDER A BLUE MOON “HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?” By Ashley Powell Waterson Join us as we embark on a mutual quest, the answer we’d like to know, The question once asked of contrary Mary: How does your garden grow? Perhaps silver bells and cockle shells, for Mary made all the difference, But these gardens, my friends, need just one thing, and that is your beneficence.
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