The National Center for Great Lakes Indigene American Culture (NCGLNAC) will nowadays a one-period horticulture workshop on May 19.

The program will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Gospel According To Gospel According To John Jay County Public Library, 315 Union Ship St. The deadline to register for the shop is May TENNER.

“The Miami Indians farmed in this area for many generations before Columbus set foot on this continent,” aforesaid Kay Neumayr of the center’s board of managing director. “The Miami were most notable for the genus genus zea willy mays they developed.”

Dani Tippmann of the Miami Folk of Oklahoma will lead a workshop on “Gardening with Gran Earth.” She will talk about indigene horticulture and the use of native, endemic plants in the garden, and natural pesterer control.

Tippmann has grown up with gardening that fills the medicine thorax and the pantry, according to Neumayr. “Just About everything for the family come up from the land about her. This background, added to her noesis of traditional plant use, will be shared on the workshop.”

Tippmann also support abreast of electric current natural trends in horticulture, and is enrolled in the Master Naturalist Program. She is a member of the NCGLNAC Advisory Board and the Miami Tribe of Oj Cultural Commission, and volunteers with the Mihsihkinaahkwa Pow Riot in Columbia City.

The class fee of THIRTY includes direction and all materials. Minimum age of participants is 12. Participants are responsible for their own lunches.

Pre-enrollment is needful. Deadline for registrations to be standard is May DECADE.

Info Kay Neumayr, (765) 426-3022 or kay.neumayr@ncglnac.com.

The center was settled in May 2001 as a not-for-lucre organization and is composed of Indigen and dis–Native members whose missionary post is to continue and preserve traditional Great Lakes Indigen American fine art, history and culture by helping walk those traditions on to Native people and by educating the full full full general public about the importance of Great Lakes Native civilization.

The organisation will turn up its future center on XXX acres of land on the north side of the John Jay County Fairgrounds, land donated by the funfair board.

The eye will feature a FOURTEEN,000-foursquare foot edifice that will include classrooms, an Interpretive center/gallery for changing exhibits, art gallery, gross gross gallery and originative somebody-in-abode flat.

The evidence will feature outside learning and schoolroom space, rainfall gardens and ethno botanic trails, restored wetlands, an early 1800’s Great Lakes Native American settlement with Indigene American gardens, restored prairie and indigen works, fresh water pond, and immature and grow woodlands.

Work began in 2006 on the number one educational trail, which is around the pond.

Jelena’s in the house!

I noticed today that my favorite hybrid witch hazel was blooming in my shaded back garden.

The hybrid witch hazels are crosses between our native witch hazels and the Chinese witch hazel.

The frilly flowers are intensely colored but small and subtle.

I planted my garden toward the end of October. We’ve been eating salads out of it on and off all winter.

Last night I picked a delicious batch of greens and we made taco salad with deer burger. The garden supplied a beautiful head of romaine that I made everyone admire before I broke it apart. I also harvested a small oak leaf lettuce head, some Asian red mustard leaves, some green onions and cilantro.

I always spend too much money on seed and don’t have the time to maintain my vegetable garden as it should be. Still, those high dollar salads are very satisfying.

While I was harvesting I scored three bouquets of flowers just before the rain came in . I made arrangements for the bar between the living room and kitchen, for my wall vase above the kitchen sink and for the back of the bathroom toilet. The arrangement on my bar is my favorite. It contains leucothoe (Agarista populifolia) filler, blooming sprigs of pearl bush (Exochorda racemosa) and 5 or 6 kinds of daffodils.

I ‘ve had quite a few cats over the years. Each of them has found his own niche in my garden.

Quite a few have specialized in porch sitting. Jeeter, shown here with trillium and daffodils last spring, is a roamer and is particularly appreciative of the outdoors. Jeeter enjoys sleeping in the sun, perching on rocks or studying the fish in my garden pond.

In his quest for adventure, he even wanders around in the woods often startling me by suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

This is a daffodil photo that I took in my friends Bill and Lydia Fontenot’s garden in Carencro, Lousiana.

I have the same narcissus in my garden. It came from an old house place. It has been blooming for the last few weeks.

As near as I can figure it is a tazetta type daffodil and is likely an old variety called Grand Primo. According to Old House Gardens (www.oldhousegardens.com), Grand Primo was introduced in 1780.

I base my identification on Scott Ogden’s wonderful book, Garden Bulbs for the South. According to Scott, they are among “the most vigorous, persistent and floriferous narcissus in zones 8-9 …”

This is definitely a pretty cool daf. However, during daffodil season, my favorites seem to change every time a new variety comes into bloom.

An ephemeral creek meanders through our back 40. Actually since we only have 6 acres, I should say it meanders through our back 5.

We’ve build a deck along the banks and a bridge across to the other side. We added a few folding chairs and decided to call it the “Fish Camp” in spite of the fact that there are no fish and no camp!

We recycled this 55 gallon drum to hold the beer bottles. Growing up, my people never had bottle trees. We did, however, have many objets like this.

My Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata) has come into bloom twice in the last few weeks. Both times a couple of nights in the low 20’s have bitten it back. Now it’s in full bloom again. Perseverence - I like that.

Apparently the buds that are closed or almost closed survive the freezes and those that are cracked open succomb. I was really happy to see this latest flush of unexpected blooms.

Right now my garden smells great. The magnolia is wonderful, of course. Its scent mingles with the fragrance of sweet daphne, sweet olive and a variety of daffodils.

Yesterday the weather was warm with a gentle breeze. I found myself following my nose around the garden like a hound dog. Every time I would become distracted by the weeding or pruning tasks at hand, the delightful composite scent would waft into my path and stop me in my tracks.

Mississippi winters are very changey. Last night it was 19 degrees and today the weather was sunny and mid-40’s.

I came home from work and started cleaning the house. Yesterday I rescued tons of daffodils from the garden and made some lovely arrangements. Today, I’m finally getting around to cleaning the house so it will provide an appropriate backdrop for the flowers. My daffodils, by the way, came through the 19 degrees without a scratch. But I’m glad the threat of frosty temperatures inspired me to fill the vases.

I tired of cleaning and took my dogs for a brisk walk throught the woods. Obviously it is still winter but I can see a barely perceptible swelling of the buds on the trees in the woods. I think we’re sitting on the cusp of spring.

Tonight is one of the coldest nights of the winter.

I prepared first by filling my vases with flowers.

I turned my bathtub into a safe haven for the smallest most vulnerable plants from my driveway/nursery.

Then I raided the linen closet and used my spare sheets and quilts to cover plants with flower buds or early leafy growth.

I settled my vegetable garden under a mantle of Reemay.

Now, he only thing left to do is to enjoy a toasty warm evening with my husband and hope for the best.

What have I done lately?

I worked with students to plant groundcover in our landscape project at the MCC Chapel.

I finished a landscape plan and presented it to a client.

I placed all my new-found plants so that Mitchell could plant them while I am gone off to give a talk to the Louisiana Native Plant Society.

I called my Mother to wish her a Happy Birthday.

I agonized over each pruning cut as I pruned/trained a coral bark Japanese maple.

I stopped dead in my tracke and grinned real big when I noticed that the lawns are speckled with beautiful little bluets.