The NWHS planted and continues to maintain the Dahl-Roeder Memorial Garden located in Wilson Park, Menomonie. The park was established in honor of Janice Dahl and Darrel Roeder. Janice was a NWHS founder member and our first editor-in-chief of the Northern Star newsletter. Darrel was a past NWHS president and also served on the board of directors. Each spring members meet at the garden for our annual cleanup and maintenance event. Individual members perform general care throughout the growing season, with a special thank you going to Jan Harvey who is especially active in keeping the garden attractive.

Darrel’s wife Ann, dad Don, and granddaughter Kaya were all there working when the garden was first planted. Besides planting hostas that Darrel loved, he also had a passion for dwarf conifers, peonies, clematis and martagon lilies – all of which are part of this memorial garden.

We had a nice turnout for this year’s Dahl-Roeder Memorial Garden cleanup. Just like last year, we were sprinkled on but that didn’t dampen anyone’s enthusiasm. What was different form last year, we only put on 3 yards of mulch instead of the way overestimated 5 yards last year where members ended up taking mulch home. We are also trying something new this year, we put down extended Preen in hopes we can control some of the weeds. We finished with a short club meeting discussing future events.