All the Dirt on Gardening

The seed starting and plant propagation workshop at Friends of Honor Heights Park followed the business meeting yesterday. Matthew Weatherbee presented the plans for the Teaching Gardens and Butterfly House. If you click on the photo you can see the architect's drawing. For the seed planting part of the workshop, participants selected two (or more) packs of seeds contributed by Renee's Garden Seeds , Botanical Interests and Territorial Seeds . Each person also took home a Parks Seed print catalog, samples of Daniel's Plant Food and Osmocote with literature. Blossom's Garden Center donated petunias and purslane for the propagation class. We set up 25 chairs and had more than that for the meeting. There was a unanimous election of the volunteer officers: president Matthew Weatherbee, vice president Jon Stoodley, treasurer Lora Weatherbee CPA, secretary Martha Stoodley. Three or four attendees volunteered to help on each of the three committees: Membership, Events an...

Honor Heights Park is one of Muskogee's primary attractions for area residents and tourists. The bird sanctuary, arboretum, cookout pavilions, picnic areas, lighted tennis courts, playground, splash pad, lake and paddleboats bring thousands to the park every year. In the spring, the Azalea Festival starts the season. Then, Symphony in the Park highlights the summer and the Garden of Lights ends the park’s busy season. A new project on the drawing board for the park will be an update and provide an additional attraction. The back wall of the former bathhouse has already been remodeled to accommodate a Teaching Garden, Nature Education Center and Butterfly House. For the last two years, a small group of citizens has been visiting similar attractions in surrounding cities from St. Louis to Dallas. Muskogee's version will be smaller, less expensive to build and will require less funding to operate. At the same time, Mark Wilkerson, Director of Parks and Recreation has pointed out ...