A weekend
filled with flowers, vendors and trolley rides turned out to be a great success
for all the plant-lovers in
the Ste Genevieve community.
The Annual
Garden Walk took place May 18 and 19 and sponsored by the Ste Genevieve County
Master Gardeners and the University
of Missouri Extension
“Considering
the rain out last year, the weather is just right for a great walk through the
gardens and great happy makes happy visitors.” Donald Naeger, president of the
Master Gardeners said.
The Garden
walk offered an opportunity for people to visit 17 gardens, including one
newcomer to the event-the Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital’s Oncology Garden
at the Alan P.
Lyss Center for Cancer Care-and two that returned after a hiatus-Les Fleurs de
Gabouri and Hugheys; Hideaway.
The gardens
and plant sales consisted of a variety of annuals, perennials and vegetables
shared from the participants’ own gardens.
There were
also several vendors selling anything from goat milk lotion, honey, plants and
pure honey, hand-crafted soaps.
In conjunction
with the Garden Walk was the bird house contest, which consisted of 22 entries
and awards to nine contestants.
Luke Ritter
won first place for his birdhouse while Riley Wolk, Tommy Otle and Chris Loida
were the runners up for second place. Dalton Kertz, Hannah Viox, Duncan
Basshawn, Blake Pennell and Jack Staab also earned ribbons.
Horse drawn trolley
rides, made possible by the Lions Club, were offered on Saturday. The trolley
rides traveled through the historic downtown.
Ellie
Douglass, the gardener at the Felix Valle State Historic Site, enjoyed sharing
samples of lemon verbena cake and mint tea while explaining her history of
participating in the garden walk.
“I have been
participating in the garden walk every year since it has started and I plan to
continue the years to come.” Douglass said.
In addition
to tending a beautiful garden, she utilized her plants in different recipes,
such as lavender verbena cake with lavender florets, a Persian yogurt soup with
dried rose pedals and mint tea.
Ruby O’Driscoll
of Ste. Genevieve happily celebrated when her name was drawn for a $50
attendance prize.
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