June 9, 2019 Plant Sale
Thank you to all who donated to, and helped with the annual plant sale at Phoenix Park. All the plants were sold by noon this year!
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May 26, 2019 Belanger’s Garden
We had a beautiful view of thousands of daffodils at the Belanger residence. Thank you to Diane and Jerry for hosting us. The Belangers are conifer collectors and they showed us the shocking amount of vole damage during the past winter. The town of Thorp near where they live has…
May 6, 2019 Dahl-Roeder Memorial Garden Cleanup
A huge thank you to all who came to the memorial garden cleanup. Last fall the city re-poured the sidewalk and added two new benches inside the park next to our garden. Hostas are emerging and looking well and martagon lilies are over a foot tall. Jan is still working…
In Memory of Gregg Peterson
The March edition of the AHS eNewsletter starts out with the sad news of the passing of AHS President, Gregg Peterson. He died in the early morning hours of February 22. An active member, speaker, and current president of the American Hosta Society, he enjoyed gardening with and talking about…
New NWHS Web Site Look
You may be wondering, “what’s going on, am I on the correct NWHS web page?” Yes you are! Unfortunately when we transferred the NWHS site to our own GoDaddy account we couldn’t continue to use the same page editing application because it is being phased out. So, we had to…
Proposed changes to Bylaws
Proposed Bylaws at the January 13, 2019 Annual Meeting Printable .pdf: Bylaws January 2019Word Document Download: Bylaws January 2019 Bylaws of the Northern Wisconsin Hosta Society ARTICLE I NAME & PURPOSE Section 1. The name of the organization shall be the Northern Wisconsin Hosta Society (hereafter referred to as the…
Approved Bylaws (January 28, 2018)
Printable .pdf: Bylaws January 2018Word Document Download: Bylaws January 2018 Bylaws of the Northern Wisconsin Hosta Society ARTICLE I NAME & PURPOSE Section 1. The name of the organization shall be the Northern Wisconsin Hosta Society (hereafter referred to as the Society). Section 2. The Society shall promote the genus…
Pre-2019 Activities
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Pre-2019 Garden Tours
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Trivia – Edible Hosta
Hostas are edible. The deer, rabbits, and slugs that make frequent visits to gardens even know this. That’s why many hosta growers add a little spice to their gardens with products like Liquid Fence, or other homemade concoctions containing various type of hot sauce to give them a little different…