Upcoming~Plant Societies Sale

Symphandra, a campanula relative

The Plant Societies Plant Sale in conjunction with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners Western New York is this coming Sunday, July 26, 2009 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension,249 Highland Avenue.
Sale hours are 10 AM to 2 PM.
Other groups selling plants will include the Iris Society of Greater Rochester, the Perennial Society, and the Genesee Valley Hosta Society.

All members of the Genesee Valley Chapter NARGS asked to bring Rock Garden Plants and have them at our table by 9 AM.

Jerry Kral's Garden ~ Wow!

a wonderful "table" rock garden

Jerry garden was a sight to see! From the front with an average size city lawn area, though the area was not definitely not average at all filled with roses, shrubs, perennials,unusual annuals, and amazing conifers you are just getting a small taste of what is to come when you round the corner to his back yard.


Most of his acre is a lush shade garden filled with amazing plant specimens and art work.




He does have 2 miniature areas tucked into his back garden. There's a mini hosta garden.


And a mini conifer garden complete with a water feature.


Once you wander through to the back of the property, you find the sunny rock garden area. This is the newest addition to Jerry's garden. We all had a wonderful time visiting this area.




There was just so much to see and so many pictures to take! More photos will end up overloading this page so if you want to see all the pics, please CLICK HERE.

Upcoming~ Garden Tour

Campanula 'Little Punky', a miniature version of Campanula punctata

Our next get together will be a tour of Jerry and Karen Kral's garden on Wed. July 8 at 6:30 PM.
Started over 16 years ago, the garden is 3/4 of an acre with the front yard a quarter acre and the rear a half-acre. Work on an additional quarter acre purchased 4 years ago will give the garden a full acre within the city of Rochester. The “Great Wall of Kral”, using 155, two and a quarter ton pallets, was completed last year (2008.)
From the wonderful detailed description in our news letter, the Semper Vivum, it is not a tour to be missed.

Pics from a Czech Republic Garden

Elmer was kind enough to forward pics from his trip in 2008.


Salvia daghestanica(Dwarf Silver-Leaf Sage)
When this salvia is in bloom, it has spikes of beautiful blue flowers.




Degenia velebitica
When in bloom, degenia is covered in yellow flowers.

Thank you Elmer for sharing the photos!