The Errea Garden
By Anna Marie Swanson, Garden Chairperson - 4/3/06
Most days this month, barring rain or snow, you will find me in the Errea Garden, cleaning up from winter, and getting ready for summer! There are always chores to do, and I love getting into the soil, pulling out the weeds and getting ready to plant seeds, bulbs and new plants.
The Novingers have been busy pruning the rose bushes for new growth. We are preparing the area behind the house for the new rose garden. We weren’t ready to transplant this year, but when it comes time to transplant in the fall, we hope to have the new rose garden laid out, with a new walkway and places for two benches. The soil will be ready for transplanting the dozen roses now scattered around the garden. They should thrive when moved to the sunny area behind the house!
We will ask Judith Kennedy and the Rose Society to advise and help with the new rose garden.
The herbs are beginning to come out, and Edna McCallion and the Tehachapi Garden Society will be nurturing them and looking after them as they have in past years.
Jerrie Cowan is planning and will be planting the shade garden along the north edge of the porch.
Cathey Powell is nurturing and feeding the beautiful irises again this year.
Mel and Helen McAllister have helped with the pruning of the huge snowball bush at the front gate, as well as repairing the gate itself so that it now opens much more easily.
Thanks to all who are helping to make the Errea House Garden so enjoyable for the community!
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