Milwaukee area home and garden events calendar for spring 2022

Milwaukee area home and garden events calendar for spring 2022

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Find home improvement and gardening classes for Milwaukee, Waukesha and the surrounding counties, with a roundup of home and garden events, craft and hobby shows, local history and tours, and where to find more information:

Boerner Botanical Gardens

Education and Visitor Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens offer a variety of year-round classes for adults and children. Whitnall Park, 9400 Boerner Drive, Hales Corners. Garden Information: (414) 525-5601; Friends of Boerner general Information: (414) 525-5653; boernerbotanicalgardens.org

Brookfield Farmers Market

7:30 a.m.-noon Saturdays, opens May 7. Brookfield Central High School, front parking lot, 16900 Gebhardt Road, Brookfield. brookfieldfarmersmarket.com

Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion

Learn about the historic house museum dedicated to the preservation of the Pabst family legacy. Guided and self-guided tours are available. Onsite admissions are available, but advance online ticket purchase is recommended. 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave. pabstmansion.com

Apr 9 | Free Home And Garden Show Comes To Schaumburg April 9 And 10

Apr 9 | Free Home And Garden Show Comes To Schaumburg April 9 And 10

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The House and Backyard garden Present arrives to the wonderful Schaumburg Conference Center with free admission and absolutely free parking on April 9 and 10. This event is just one of the largest and most interesting dwelling improvement functions in the total Chicago spot!

1000’s of motivated and savvy home owners from all over Chicagoland will go to this hugely well known function to locate the final in price savings, advantage and inspiration to improve their lives while strengthening and upgrading their properties and homes, within and out!

This excellent celebration will present a broad array of exciting reveals and shows, highlighting the most current home advancement products and expert services with thousands of the freshest strategies for transforming, repairing and beautifying your home. At the very same time, you’ll find alternatives to meet up with and discuss with area and countrywide industry experts who are keen to aid you with all your home advancement initiatives and issues.

You will uncover it all, from windows, siding and roofing, to kitchens, baths, basements and additions. Spruce things up with new flooring, painting, window treatment plans and decor! Enrich your outdoor place, and make your backyard the envy of the community with the top in out of doors living at the By the Garden and Amish Craftsmen Guild booths. There you’ll see remarkable, maintenance-absolutely free deck and patio home furniture, equipment and accents produced from 100 {d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} recycled materials! Look at out the newest in superior-good quality outside gravity swings and customized decks and gazebos, then eco-friendly it all up with skilled lawn and home upkeep companies!

Help you save big on vitality expenses with solar electric power devices, Tesla electric power partitions and electrical car chargers! Don’t ignore to hold it snug year-spherical with the latest in effective heating, air conditioning and QuietCool complete-dwelling lover systems! Knowledge the ease and comfort of excellent adjustable beds and luxurious sheets! And make it straightforward and harmless for all with walk-in tubs and other household accessibility items! You can even “deck-out” your garage with a new doorway and opener, epoxy flooring and custom made garage cabinetry!

Make the interior of your dwelling stand out with heirloom excellent live edge, large plank, slab and round eating tables, chairs and benches as very well as customized manufactured, reliable wood table, bar and island tops by Spiritcraft. And never depart vacant handed! Take household really spectacular hand carved decor and accent parts by Nino at Normal Miracles!

Plus! Deal with your self to a single of Platinum Cuisine’s no cost reside cooking exhibits! The shows begin at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday! Seating is confined, so get a single when they very last! You can even order the large excellent, qualified cookware they use in their demonstrations!

You’ll also see other exciting and interesting are living demonstrations and immediate sales of a person-of-a-type items you won’t locate any where else, and so much extra, all weekend prolonged!

From interiors to exteriors, décor to outdoor, we’re right here to make your house enhancement projects simple, satisfying and& entertaining! For the reason that a better house usually means a better life!

With thousands of goods and services showcased at this grand party, you can be absolutely sure you will locate the most effective alternatives for all of your house advancement requirements all less than a person roof at the only celebration of its size and scale serving the spot with absolutely free admission and available totally free parking. There is a VIP paid parking large amount readily available to you at the northeast of the creating, but all other parking is free of charge.

Hosted at the Schaumburg Conference Heart, 1551 Thoreau Dr. North, Schaumburg, just southeast of Algonquin and Meacham Roads, just west of Route 53. The Property and Garden Display is open to the community on April 9 and 10, Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each working day.

For much more details, stop by www.SchaumburgHomeShow.com or phone 630-953-2500.

Picture credit rating: Schaumburg Residence and Back garden Demonstrate

Cofer’s Home and Garden Showplace celebrates 100th anniversary | Arts & Culture

Cofer’s Home and Garden Showplace celebrates 100th anniversary | Arts & Culture

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This month, nearby plant store and nursery Cofer’s Home and Backyard garden Showplace is celebrating 100 years of loved ones-oriented service to the Athens group.

Founded in 1922 by Hal Cofer Sr., the enterprise began simply because Athens was originally a farm local community and the financial system was booming in that field, said recent store operator Stuart Cofer. Cofer’s was in the beginning located on South Lumpkin Street close to the Ga Theatre in advance of going to East Wide Avenue just after Hal Cofer Sr. purchased out his small business spouse. Since then, the location has changed two occasions but is now settled on Mitchell Bridge Highway.







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A backyard garden memorial sign swings in the wind at Cofer’s Residence and Backyard garden Showplace on March 25, 2022 in Athens, Georgia. This thirty day period, Cofer’s is celebrating its 100th anniversary. (Photo/Maddy Franklin)


Stuart Cofer is a aspect of the 3rd generation to consider in excess of the organization. He believes managing clients by “the golden rule” is how Cofer’s has stayed in business enterprise for a century.

“If you don’t address the buyer suitable, what’s heading to transpire? The customer is likely to leave and go to a competitor,” Cofer explained.

Cofer recounted a predicament where by a man impacted by a stroke walked by means of the door and could not talk. Just after crafting down that he had a plant die final fall but didn’t have a receipt for it, Cofer nevertheless gave him retail store credit score.

“Any other corporate retail store would say ‘no receipt, no item, no way.’ But, in a tiny spouse and children business enterprise, you do no matter what you can to continue to keep the consumer satisfied,” Cofer claimed.

The loved ones enterprise product is a neat just one for keep manager of 4 several years, Dean Nelson, who is from Minnesota and has worked for major businesses and nearby businesses alike.

“There are not a lot of 100-yr-previous firms any where,” Nelson mentioned.”

Nelson also thinks managing the buyers appropriate is a way to hold the business enterprise afloat and mentioned “Shopping is an emotional experience.”







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Relatives memorabilia embellish the wall of Cofer’s House and Backyard garden Showplace on March 25, 2022 in Athens, Ga. The retailer is now operate by the family’s third technology. (Image/Maddy Franklin)


There’s more to Cofer’s longevity than just treating clients proper, Cofer claimed. Supplying back again to the group has been essential to the store’s achievements.

“[Locals] like to give again to the organizations that reside and breathe listed here,” Cofer said. The retailer donates to a lot of nonprofit organizations together with the American Cancer Modern society, Habitat for Humanity, Clarke Central Significant Faculty and the Athens Place Humane Culture.

According to Loved ones Small business Alliance, only 3{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} of family-owned organizations make it to the fourth era. Cofer’s will be a section of that small {d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9}. Stuart Cofer’s son, Stephen Cofer who is at this time a third yr at the College of Ga, will get over for his father when the time will come.

A celebration is also underway for the centennial year from March 25-27, found at Cofer’s with food vans, radio stations, and stay new music.

Homes and gardens events around Portland

Homes and gardens events around Portland

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Events are free unless noted. Please email calendar submissions at least two weeks in advance to events@oregonian.com.

ONGOING

Tulip Festival: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday through May 1. Experience the beauty of 40 acres of tulips and more than 200 acres of outdoor spaces and activities. $15 day pass, or $60 season pass; tickets must be purchased at woodenshoe.com; Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm, 33814 S. Meridian Road, Woodburn

Spring Into Action: Free Webinars to Learn: Various dates and times, March-June. Discover methods to save time, money and energy on a garden, property or community. From naturescaping to creating an edible landscape, workshops taught by experts from East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District demonstrate ways to benefit people, water and wildlife. emswcd.org

Grow Your Own Produce: The Workshop Series: (online via Zoom) 7-9 p.m. second Thursday of the month through Nov. 10. Permaculture expert Marisha Auerbach helps you learn to maximize your yield with a monthly overview of key garden activities. $100 for a five-class series or $25 per class; permaculturerising.com

Tualatin Valley Beekeepers Association meetings: (online via Zoom until further notice) 6-8 p.m. last Tuesday of the month; tvbabees.org or email tualatinvalleybeekeepers@gmail.com

Harvest & Design Workshop Series: 10 a.m. second Saturday of the month, May-November. Take a monthly guided tour of a flower farm and learn about the plants you will harvest for your arrangement that day. $85 per workshop or $445 for the seven-class package; Charles Little and Company, 34573 Seavey Loop Road, Eugene; charleslittleandcompany.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 26

Cutting Gardens – Planning, Planting, Cutting: 10 a.m. Instructor Kathy Whitman will teach when, where and what to plant, and how to create beauty in your garden and bring it indoors. $25; Rogerson Clematis Garden at Luscher Farm, 125 Rosemont Road, West Linn; rogersonclematiscollection.org

Gardening 101: Where Do I Begin?: 10-11 a.m. From planning and soil prep to plant selection and maintenance, this class will provide you with a basic understanding of what it takes to become a successful gardener. $10; register at bloomingjunction.com; Blooming Junction Garden Center and Farm Market, 35105 NW Zion Church Road, Cornelius

Bonsai Introductory Class: 10 a.m.-Noon. Learn everything you need to know to get started with bonsai. $25 per person, or $40 for two; call 360-225-8750 to sign up. Tsugawa Nursery, 410 E. Scott Ave., Woodland; tsugawanursery.com

Bonsai Continuing Class: 1-3 p.m. Continue learning about bonsai design, techniques and care. $25 per person, or $40 for two; Call 360-225-8750 to sign up. Tsugawa Nursery, 410 E. Scott Ave., Woodland; tsugawanursery.com

Bumble Bee Hike: 1-2 p.m. Toddlers can look for wildlife, listen to the wind and creek, smell plants and flowers, and touch the trees and leaves. Register at leachgarden.org; Leach Botanical Garden, 6704 S.E. 122nd Ave.

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

Tree and Native Plant Sale: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 1-2. Choose from over 90 native species, plus a bareroot section featuring fruit-bearing, shade and ornamentals compatible to the Pacific Northwest. Skyline Grange, 11275 N.W. Skyline Blvd.; skylinegrange894.org

Introduction to Spring Mushroom Identification: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Join local guide and expert taxonomist Leah Bendlin to learn about mushrooms. $35; register at leachgarden.org; Leach Botanical Garden, 6704 S.E. 122nd Ave.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2

Hortlandia 2022: Back to Our Roots: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Browse a wide range of plants, bulbs, garden art and books, plus enjoy an included lecture series featuring three local gardening experts. $5, free after 3 p.m.; purchase tickets at hpso.memberclicks.net/hortlandia; Westside Commons, 801 N.E. 34th Ave., Hillsboro; hardyplantsociety.org

Trillium Festival & Native Plant Sale: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Celebrate the return of the trillium with interactive learning stations, hikes focusing on native plants and displays on watershed education. Tryon Creek State Natural Area, 11321 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd.; tryonfriends.org

Crafting Garden Plant Markers: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Guest instructor Katie Organ will help you make your own set of five unique plant markers. $25; register at bloomingjunction.com; Blooming Junction Garden Center and Farm Market, 35105 NW Zion Church Road, Cornelius

TUESDAY, APRIL 5

Soil School: (online webinar) 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through April 28. Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District and West Multnomah SWCD experts share their knowledge and answer questions in a series of soil-related webinars. Find details and register at tualatinswcd.org/get-involved/event-calendar.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

Friends of West Slope Community Library Tulip Sale: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 7-9 and 1-5 p.m. April 10. West Slope Community Library, 3678 S.W. 78th Ave.; westslopelibrary.org or 503-292-6416

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

Gardenpalooza: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. More than 30 vendors will offer hundreds of plants, garden art and goods. Bauman’s Farm & Garden, 12989 Howell Prairie Road N.E., Gervais; gardenpalooza.com

Beginning an Organic Veggie Garden: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Learn what to plant, when to plant it and how to reap the most from your efforts. Register at eventbrite.com. Dennis’ 7 Dees Vancouver Garden Center, 10006 Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver

Gardening for Cut Flowers: 10 a.m. Local flower farmer Lara Rowles will share the basics of planning, planting and growing your own cut flowers for beautiful bouquets. $10; register at bloomingjunction.com; Blooming Junction Garden Center and Farm Market, 35105 NW Zion Church Road, Cornelius

Grow Your Own Strawberries Workshop: 10-11:30 a.m. Join WSU Extension Clark County master gardeners for an introductory class that will provide an overview of the three types of strawberries. $6; registration required at eventbrite.com. Call 564-397-5738, email Erika.d.johnson@wsu.edu or go to extension.wsu.edu/clark/gardening/workshops-events for more information. 78th Street Heritage Farm, 1919 N.E. 78th St., Vancouver

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

Native Plant Sale: Noon-3 p.m. Pick from more than 70 species of natives, plus vegetable starts, annuals, perennials and hanging baskets. Spirit of Grace Church, 7400 S.W. Scholls Ferry Road, Beaverton; email margarmstrong45@gmail.com for further information

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

Earth Day Celebration: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Learn about the environment, forest management, sustainability and conservation while visiting educational exhibits, taking a narrated tram tour or exploring the 80-acre botanical garden. Entry is free but a $5 donation is suggested, parking $5; Oregon Garden, 879 W. Main St., Silverton; oregongarden.org

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

Weed Watcher Workshop: (online webinar) 6 p.m. Join Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District experts to learn how you can help identify priority weeds in the Tualatin River watershed. Find details and register at tualatinswcd.org/get-involved/event-calendar.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

Mini-Habitat Tabletop Garden Workshop: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Join local artist Weina Dinata to learn how to create your own artful woodland or succulent tabletop native plant garden. $85; Tryon Creek State Natural Area, 11321 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd.; tryonfriends.org

SATURDAY, APRIL 23

Ivy Removal Volunteer Day: 9 a.m.-Noon. Volunteer to restore plant diversity by removing ground or tree ivy. Tryon Creek State Natural Area, 11321 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd.; tryonfriends.org

Home Orchard Education Center Spring Plant Sale: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Peruse a selection of fruiting trees, edible plants, beneficial perennials and more grown, propagated or grafted in the Pacific Northwest. HOEC Arboretum, 21 Inskeep Drive, Oregon City; Call 503-298-5410 or visit homeorchardeducationcenter.org/springplantsale for site-specific directions and more information.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

Naturescaping: Basics: (online webinar) 6 p.m. Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District experts introduce the basic principles of naturescaping, or incorporating native plants into your yard, garden or community, and provide resources to help you start planning your own project. Find details and register at tualatinswcd.org/get-involved/event-calendar.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

Free Plant Swap: 10 a.m.-Noon. Bring your extra plants, starts, pots, garden supplies and books, and take home what interests you. Eastrose Fellowship Unitarian Universalist, 1133 N.E. 181st Ave.

Bare Root Trees, Shrubs & Perennials Sale: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 30-May 1. Peruse a variety of trees, shrubs, perennials and bee cocoons. NatureScaping of Southwest Washington, 11000 N.E. 149th St., Brush Prairie; naturescaping.org

Spring Garden Fair: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 30 and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 1. Shop more than 100 vendors with plants, pots, garden art and much more. $5 admission, free parking; Clackamas County Fairgrounds and Event Center, 694 N.E. Fourth Ave., Canby; springgardenfair.org

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

Naturescaping: Site Design: (online webinar) 6 p.m. Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District experts walk through the practice of applying naturescaping principles in creating a site design. Discuss the tools and techniques needed to design your landscape. Find details and register at tualatinswcd.org/get-involved/event-calendar.

SATURDAY, MAY 7

Digging in the Dirt: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Visit the Oregon Garden, help plant spring annuals and enjoy a brunch buffet, bottomless mimosas and live music afterwards. $40; Oregon Garden, 879 W. Main St., Silverton; oregongarden.org

SATURDAY, MAY 21

Mini-Habitat Tabletop Garden Workshop: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Join local artist Weina Dinata to learn how to create your own artful woodland or succulent tabletop native plant garden. $85; Tryon Creek State Natural Area, 11321 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd.; tryonfriends.org

Floratopia: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 21-22. Enjoy a judged flower show, informative exhibits, botanical arts, photography and more. World Forestry Center, 4033 S.W. Canyon Road; theportlandgardenclub.org

— Corey Sheldon

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Come tour Isabelle Bowen Henderson’s Raleigh home, gardens

Come tour Isabelle Bowen Henderson’s Raleigh home, gardens

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Spring flowers will be in bloom at the home and gardens of Isabelle Bowen Henderson when the historic Raleigh property will be open to the public on April 3, 2022.


Russ Stephenson

RALEIGH

In the late 1970s, the City of Raleigh tried to tear down and pave over the house and English-style gardens where for decades Isabelle Bowen Henderson raised daylilies, irises and roses near the N.C. State University bell tower.

A few years later, the city tried again.

Both times it wanted to replace a shaded, two-lane section of Oberlin Road with a five-lane thoroughfare that would run through Henderson’s property and line up neatly with Pullen Road, near the bell tower. As with most projects of this kind, the goal was to move more cars faster.

By then, Henderson had died and left the property to her sister, Phyllis Riley, who successfully fought off the city with the help of attorney Brian Howell. Riley also worked to get the 1.2-acre home and gardens added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Riley left the property to her grandson, Russ Stephenson, and his wife, Ellen Longino, in 1991. The couple set about restoring the home, outbuildings and gardens that Henderson started creating in the late 1930s.

On April 3, Stephenson and Longino will open their home and gardens to the public. The event will benefit the Raleigh Garden Club, which will provide guides and collect $5 at the gate.

It’s a chance to see an urban oasis, hidden by fences and greenery, that thousands pass unknowingly on Oberlin Road every day. Stephenson, a former member of the City Council, says inviting the public in is a way of showing respect for his great aunt’s creation and for his grandmother for keeping the city from destroying it.

“It’s an incredible story,” he said. “And people are amazed when they come here, and they say, ‘I never knew that this place was here.’“

The house and gardens began with a two-room home built by former slaves on Oberlin Road in about 1870 and expanded around 1900. In 1937, Henderson’s father, N.C. State College treasurer A.F. Bowen, bought the building and moved and reoriented it so it faced the back door of his home on Ferndell Lane.

Henderson moved home to Raleigh that year to begin work as a portrait artist. She had become fascinated with John D. Rockefeller’s recreation of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and set out to make her own small version around the little house her father had bought.

She created a formal Elizabethan herb garden with beds arranged in geometric shapes in brick. She built a clapboard herb potting shed with an enormous brick fireplace at one end, inspired by the summer kitchens at Colonial Williamsburg. The giant fireplace served no practical purpose.

“According to my grandmother, that thing has never seen a fire,” Stephenson says.

Henderson’s bluebells bloom every year

The main garden behind the house served different purposes, depending on Henderson’s interests. During World War II, it was a large Victory garden, full of vegetables. At various times in the 1950s, she had 600 varieties of irises planted there and more than 500 types of daylilies. By the mid-60s, it was all in roses.

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Isabelle Bowen Henderson in the mid-1950s with some of the hybrid irises she grew at her home off Oberlin Road in Raleigh. Her home and gardens will be open to the public from 1 to 4 p.m. on April 3, 2022.

A lot of what Henderson planted has survived, more than 50 years after she died in 1969. These include her camellias and the Spanish hyacinths or bluebells that will soon be in full bloom in the English perennial garden in front of the house.

Visitors also will see Henderson’s studio, with its soaring ceiling and abundant natural light, and the room where she painted a 1770 map of the Carolina colonies on the wall over the fireplace (the map pre-dates Raleigh, and shows nothing between “Tarrburgh” and “Hillsborough.”) The mural was featured in House and Garden Magazine in 1942 and again, along with the rest of the property, in Preservation Magazine in 2018.

While Henderson’s house and gardens look much like they did 80 years ago, the city is ever changing around them.

Over the back fence, the large homes on Maiden Lane, long rented to college students and fraternities, were recently replaced by three-story apartment buildings. And next door, just beyond the perennial garden, N.C. State University has replaced an old warehouse building with a gravel parking lot. Stephenson doesn’t know what the university’s long-term plans are, but he hopes it’s not a tall building that would shade the gardens.

And that points to another reason that Stephenson and Longino periodically open their home to the public.

“Part of what I’m doing is to keep people aware of the value of what’s here and the amazing story,” Stephenson said. “It’s all about raising that awareness so people will have an appreciation and respect and not have the city or other development people do things that will attempt to destroy it in the future.”

The open house at 213 Oberlin Road will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 3. Parking will be available in that gravel lot next door. For more information, go to www.raleigh-garden-club.org/garden-tours.

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