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Summer 2015 Vol. 24
Firefly Fling: July 18th
tive about the after-dark performances
Summer is here and that means Traditions will remain, like the so there will be surprises for those who
it’s almost time for Firefly Fling: THE fairy house station, after-dark drama stay until the end of the festival. As usuSummer Festival for Families. Firefly on the Great Lawn, the appreciated al, blankets and picnics are welcome.
will have a slightly new look this year presence of Crystal Bridges Museum People who bring chairs will be asked
due to two new and talented direc- of American Art, nature circles, regu- to place them behind the blanket area so
tors – Dani Dingman, famous for Little lar partners like Cox Communications that everyone will have good views.
Sprouts, is organizing the activity sta- and Ozarks Natural Science Center The terrace will have vendors
tions around the gardens and Jules Tay- and the Firefly Shoppe on the terrace. like Tropical Smoothie, Yarnell’s Ice
lor, famous as Shaky Bugs, is heading up A few stations from last year will be lo- Cream, PedalPops and BGO. The Firethe entertainment part of the evening. cated in new places but will still offer fly Shoppe will be fully stocked with all
With these two energetic experts on nature play for children. Additions to things fairy and lots of items that glow.
hand, Firefly promises to be the high- Firefly this year include Pack Rat Out- This year, it will pay to buy admission
light of the outdoor season.
door Center, located across the creek, early online at www.bgozarks.org or
Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, puppets with activities for older children, Brick by calling 479-750-2620. Advance adand music will rule the evening as Fire- by Brick at the Education Cottage with mission will be $7 for adults and $4 for
fly visitors dance with fairies and whim- a building challenge for young visitors, a children 3 to 13, with children under 3
sical families that populate the Garden puppet station in the Reading Railroad, free. At the gate, admission will go up
on Firefly night. Firefly is a marvelous and an active water station manned by to $9 for adults and $5 for children 3
blending of community and family, of Beaver Water District on the small lawn to 13, with children under 3 free. Avoid
education and entertainment in one of between the terrace and Japanese Gar- lines at the festival by going online and
Northwest Arkansas’s most beautiful den.
buying early so that you have more time
settings.
Dani and Jules are being secre- to enjoy all that Firefly 2015 has to offer.
Learn @ BGO
From the Director
It is a very exciting time for the Botanical Garden. The Garden is in full bloom. The Garden is beautiful and offers so
much whether you are visiting to enjoy nature, attending an event, or participating in an educational activity. This is because
the Garden has a great staff of gardeners and wonderful volunteers.Together, they make the plants grow and things happen.
Speaking of growing…the Botanical Garden continues to grow in every way. Several weeks ago, the Garden held its
annual spring fund raiser, Greening of the Garden. This event unofficially kicks off spring at BGO and provides the Garden
with funds to operate for the balance of the year. This year’s event was a great success with a 31% increase over the previous
year which was itself a record setter.
I hope you will join me welcoming some new coworkers to the Botanical Garden. Charlotte Taylor is the Garden’s
new Chief Development Officer. Elizabeth Wilhelm is the Director of Special Events. Roslyn Imrie joins the Garden staff as
the Education/Communication Coordinator. In addition, Alex Bergdahl has joined our group of gardeners. They are all very
talented and are excited about the opportunity to be a part of the Botanical Garden team.
As mentioned, the Garden staff and volunteers continue to work to maintain and improve our current demonstration
Gardens. You may have noticed the new trails and plantings in the Garden. These improvements and the maintenance all require a financial commitment from the Garden. Recently, the annual appeal for support of the Garden was mailed out. I urge
you to consider a donation in support of your Botanical Garden. If you have already sent in a contribution, I thank you for your
continued support.
We are also very thankful to the volunteers who help out in so many areas this year. Whether it is cutting the grass,
watering plants, helping the gardeners, assisting with the school children at one of the education activities, helping with Little
Sprouts, working in the reception area, preparing mailings, assisting at an event, or helping in so many other areas, the Garden
would not be what it is or what it will be without our volunteers. It’s been cold, it’s been rainy, it’s been hot and still, you have
been here. Again, thank you. Learn.Play.Grow@BGO
Ron Cox
Summer Concert
Series Save the Dates:
August 25th
September 29th
6pm
The FREE 2015 Concert Series at
the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks
continues in August with music from
Still on the Hill on the 25th and in
September with Smoky and the Mirror on the 29th. Enjoy a fun evening
of music in the summer beauty of the
Garden. Lawn chairs and picnics welcome. No alcohol please; BGO will
sell soft drinks and water. The presenting sponsor is the Willard & Pat
Walker Charitable Foundation, Inc.
and the presenting media sponsor is
CitiScapes. Other sponsors include
3W Magazine, NASH FM 94.3, FlyN-Hog, Power 105.7.
Chefs in the Garden
Wood Stone Craft Pizza and Cardamom and Curry restaurants.
Presented By
The Garden would also like
to thank Filippo Berio for being the
presenting sponsor. Coca-Cola, Crystal Lake Farms, Cole Fennel Photography, Dancenhance Entertainment ,
Intents Party Rental and Seattle Fish
Co are sponsors of the event as well.
Tuesday, September 15th
Another thank you goes to the Pre6:00 – 8:30 pm
Northwest Arkansas’ favorite fall senting Media Sponsors Citiscapes,
event is back! It’s an evening of cooking dem- 3W, Fly-N-Hog, Warm 94.9, US 94,
onstrations, food samplings, wines that com- 1030 KFAY-AM and Power 105.7.
plement each dish and a complimentary bar
to complete the evening. The beautiful setting, great food, drinks, music, Photobooth
and enjoyable company make this event one
to mark on your calendar now.
This year’s Honorary Chair is Chef
Jerrmy Gawthrop. He has been supportive of Tickets $50: Fine Dining & Complithe Garden since it was built and has partici- mentary Bar; Reserve your admission
pated in Chefs in the Garden for several years. online at bgozarks.org or by phone at
Jerrmy is the owner of Greenhouse Grille, 479-750-2620.
Play@ BGO
New Staff
Summer is in full bloom and the Garden staff is growing too. Since April, BGO has added a Chief Development Officer
and Associate Executive Director, Charlotte Taylor, a new Special Events Director, Elizabeth Wilhelm, as Liz Esch moves to a
part-time special events coordinator position, and a new Education and Communication Coordinator, Roslyn Imrie, as Judy
Smith moves to volunteer status and Volunteer Coordinator. Out in the Garden, the staff has grown too, adding Alex Bergdahl
as gardener. Job titles have changed too. Lissa Morrison is now in charge of garden design and management; Nikki George is
manning the greenhouse and nursery and Megan Lankford is lead gardener. These changes and additions will help the Garden
grow in all ways. Please enjoy reading about our new people and introduce yourself to them the next time you visit BGO.
Charlotte
Elizabeth
Roslyn
Alex
Charlotte Taylor has recently joined the staff of the Botanical Garden as Chief Development Officer and Associate
Executive Director. Charlotte worked at the University of Arkansas in the Development Office for sixteen years. She was the
Director of Development for the Fay Jones School of Architecture for eleven years and spent the last five years as Executive
Director of University Initiatives in the central development office.Prior to her university work, she was the Executive Director of Alpha Delta Pi International Sorority in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Director of Development for the Austin Symphony in
Texas.
Charlotte is a University of Arkansas graduate and has a Masters from the University of Vermont. She is a volunteer
with many organizations around town and considers herself an avid (but uneducated) gardener. She lives in Fayetteville with
her husband, Tim Hudson, and their sons Renwick who just graduated from college and Richard who will be a college sophomore in the fall.
Elizabeth Wilhelm joins BGO with a passion for hosting events & digging in the dirt. Her roots were planted in the
country on her parents’ Missouri farm, where she learned to work & play hard. She graduated from Missouri State University
with a Hospitality degree and has enjoyed traveling across the US with her husband, Steve, as they worked in the hospitality &
theater profession. They landed in Fayetteville 13 years ago to begin a family and are blessed with 2 children, Logan, 11 and
Olivia, 9. She is grateful to be a part of the BGO family and looks forward to overseeing the Special Events at the Garden.
Roslyn Imrie is the new Education and Communications Coordinator. Roslyn grew up in the Ozarks near the headwaters of the Buffalo River. She traveled from coast to coast as she went to school at the College of the Redwoods in California
and then graduated from Goddard College in Vermont. After settling down in Fayetteville, she worked as a teacher, outdoor
educator, and most recently the Program Director for the local nonprofit Apple Seeds. She is a mother of two small boys and
has many hobbies including gardening, farming, hiking, crocheting, and writing. Roslyn is very excited about the future of
education at the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks.
In April Alex Bergdahl joined the BGO gardening team. Originally Alex is a mid-westerner from Wisconsin. He
moved to NWA a little more than a year ago. Alex has had a variety of gardening experiences from working with a landscaping
business to sustainable, organic vegetable gardening. His 2 passions are horticulture and music. Alex has a love for horticulture,
gardening and teaching that shows through in his every day interactions.
Grow@ BGO
Seeing a Garden
In a meeting once we were asked to ponder the most
beautiful garden we had ever seen. Immediately I thought of
a 3 foot wide rocky ledge on the north side of Mt. Magazine
where seven species of mosses had grown to perfection blending subtle hues of green, gold, red and orange together to
create a masterful composition. If others have ever discovered
this special spot, I doubt they would describe it as the most
beautiful garden they have ever seen, but for me it is. Beauty,
as we all know, is in the eye of the beholder.
Our gardeners try hard to create beautiful scenes
throughout the garden. Because the BGO garden is broken
down into a dozen or more discrete garden spaces, each with
its own theme, it is possible to concentrate both the labor of
the gardeners and the attention of the viewer on a smaller
space. This definition of space is most starkly illustrated by
comparing two garden spaces – the Japanese garden and what
Lissa Morrison, our head gardener, ingloriously calls “Gerald’s corner” - the area behind the Bat Tower.
The Japanese garden is a favorite of many visitors because it’s very reason to exist is to create a space of tranquility
and contemplation. True to the nature of a Japanese garden, it
has only the flowering cherries and a bed of azaleas but otherwise no flowers. This simplicity of design leaves out the clutter created by the typical western design ethos which favors
lots of bling.
The as yet officially unnamed corner behind the Bat
Tower (no we’ve never had any bats but we are forever hopeful) reflects my personal interest in nature, plants and gardening. In this area I’ve added an extensive collection of barrenworts (Epimedium), a group I find especially exciting because
they have great potential as garden plants. Because most of
the 50 or so species in the genus only became available to
western collectors after the mid 1990’s they are still relatively
unfamiliar and they represent species collected from the wild
in central China. This is a rare opportunity to look at wild
plants before they are “improved” and a few winners selected
for mass market sales.
But it is also a good location for planting the odds and
ends I grow from seed, find in nurseries or otherwise come
across. To a garden designer, a garden space planted to “odds
and ends” can only be considered second rate. But to the plant
Nicki George, the BGO Greenhouse Manager, shows
the Little Sprouts how to pot a tomato seedling.
lover, diversity always trumps good design.
Most of the subtleties between the various gardens are probably missed by the average visitor because they are often looking at what is in bloom today, not the rhythm created by the
coming and going of plants as they change throughout the season. To know and truly see a garden, you must visit it often
at all seasons. Spring elicits the most positive feedback from
visitors because of the over exuberance of blooms, but to my
mind, fall may be the garden’s best season.
My favorite experience at the garden is when preschoolers visit us. There is something special about their excitement and joy as their parents allow them to experience a
bit of freedom to explore nature in a safe and protected way.
It’s been too long since I was 5, and besides I grew up on a
farm so nature was always close at hand, but I wish I were able
to see the garden through their eyes as they begin to establish their own personal relationship with the world of nature,
plants and gardens that will be with them throughout the rest
of their lives.
Gerald Klingaman
Operations Director
From the Gardeners
I’ve always considered the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks to be a special jewel. As the garden staff is working
somewhere around the Circle, it’s not
unusual to hear comments like, “Amazing! This garden is so special, so colorful, so beautiful.” The most rewarding
compliment comes from someone who
has been to many different botanical
gardens around the country, and they
tell us that BGO ranks as one of their
favorites.
Of course, as anyone who has
ever gardened knows, having a large,
beautiful garden is no easy task—especially if keeping it fresh and attractive for
four seasons of the year is the goal. Assuming we have accomplished most of
what we call ‘winter clean-up,’ it is fairly
easy to feel wonderful in most gardens
in the spring. The early spring blooming
shrubs and flowering trees gloriously
announce themselves. And the onslaught
of weeds hasn’t quite caught up yet.
As the temperatures warm and
the weeds get aggressive, the harder
work begins. Summer arrives, and most
of us hope to have the bulk of our home
gardening accomplished. After all, it’s
time for other fun, summer activities
to begin. But at BGO when it gets hot,
many of the cool season spring annuals,
like pansies, resent the heat. This is just
our signal to begin our second round of
planting annuals and perennials for summer and fall color.
With good mulch and plenty of
water and heat, we
can look forward
to a huge array of
annuals: lantana,
penta, periwinkle,
salvias, begonia,
zinnias, and more.
Add to this many
summer blooming perennials and
shrubs: buddleia,
perennial salvias,
tall garden phlox,
rudbeckia, russian
sage, panicle hydrangea. Big color
is everywhere and we love it!
As the end of summer approaches, the real challenge begins. By
now many of us are tired of the heat, the
work, and dragging sprinklers or hoses
around. It’s tempting to just ‘let it go,’
knowing that fall will be here soon. Most
BGO gardeners don’t love the heat either, but the BGO horticulture team has
a goal of staying spectacular and beautiful right up until the first frost.
All of the gardeners are passionate about the work we do. With this attitude fall is an incredible season to visit
the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. As
early as June we have already begun to
think towards what we will have blooming and eye- catching in September and
October.
Every fall that I have been with
BGO, I marvel at how beautiful the
whole garden looks. I often tell friends,
family and strangers that fall is the best
time to visit this jewel of a garden in Fayetteville. This year the horticulture team
came up with the idea of showing off in
the fall. We want to get everyone’s attention at a time of the year when many
of us are not focused on gardening. The
first week of October we will have our
first annual Fall Finale, October 5 - 7.
We want to showcase and show off the
Botanical Garden of the Ozarks when
we think our jewel is shining the brightest!
So, as summer moves into fall,
if you need inspiration and relief from
the summer doldrums, please come
visit. Sharing the beauty is part of what
keeps the garden team going as well.
Tell all your friends, family and even
strangers about the Fall Finale 2015. As
we plan the details for this new event,
stayed tuned by checking our website:
bgozarks.org
BGO Board of Directors
Walt Eilers, President,
Fundraising Consultant
Linda McMath, Vice
President,
Community Volunteer
Bo Bittle, Treasurer, VP,
Stephens Inc.
Susan Robinson, Secretary,
Owner Flying-N-Hog Media
Pat Bourke, Coporate Social
Responsibility Manager, Tyson
Alan Cole, Exec. VP, Colliers
International
Byron Humphry, Parks Dept.,
City of Fayetteville
Karen Leach, Community
Volunteer
Richie Lamb, VP, United Bank
Joyce Mendenhall, Cooperative
Extension Service, U of A
Derek Ridenoure, Account
Manager, C. F. Sauer Co.
Steve Rogers, VP, JB Hunt
Maudie Schmitt, Chef/Owner,
Café Rue Orleans
Dr. Bill Schwab, Sociology
Professor, UofA
Chris Stone - Stecklein,
Technology, Walmart Corporation
Eleanor Townsley, Community
Volunteer
Nancy Trammel, Community
Volunteer
Staff
Ron Cox - Executive Director
Charlotte Taylor - Chief
Development Officer
Gerald Klingaman - Director of
Operations
Elizabeth Wilhelm - Director of
Special Events
Liz Esch - Special Events Coordinator
Deborah Coley - Accountant &
Memberships
Roslyn Imrie - Communication and
Education Coordinator
Allison Griffin- Social Media and
Website Coordinator
Judie Branson - Memberships/
Contributions Coordinator
Lissa Morrison - Director of
Garden Design & Management
Nikki George - Greenhouse Mgr.
Megan Lankford - Lead
Gardener
Alex Bergdahl - Gardener
Jean Armstrong - Maintenance
We strive to acknowledge
gifts correctly, please notify
us of corrections
Harvest
Circle
Doris Cassidy
Gerald and Jolene Klingaman
Blooming
Circle
Bryan and Jayne McDuffie
John Nooncaster
Nurturing
Circle
Linda and Bob McMath
Sprouting
Circle
Dave and Carol Albert
Kitty Sanders and Alfred Angulo
Wade Burnside and Janet Baker
Linda and Walt Eilers
L. Joe and JoAnne Herriman
Becky and Terry Jones
Tom and Jill King
Greg and Hannah Lee
Cathy and Stephen Marak
Bill and Gloria Mills
Michael and Constance Morse
Mary Bess Mulhollan
C.B. and Janet Richardson
Lynn and Jack Sheridan
Martha Sutherland
Betty J. Swope
Kirk Thompson and Brett Burch
Seed Circle
Fran and Jim Alexander
Mary Ann and Jack E. Bardwell
Catherine and Clay Bass
Ron and Becky Cox
Jon and Joanie Dyer
Georgette Garner
John and Tamara Gilmour
Gayle and Michael Howard
Jerome and Harriet Jansma
Jo Jones
J.L. and Virginia Lancaster
Rita Littrell and Don Hurlbut
Vicki Mashburn
Mary Lynn Reese
Lynn Rogers
Judy and Dennis Smith
Jean Totemeier
Dick and Nancy Trammel
Elizabeth Wheeler
Corporate Sponsors
2015
Bank of America
Bank of Fayetteville
Boulder Construction
Coca Cola
Cox Communication
Filippo Berio
Mathews Management
Company
McDonald’s Restaurant
Ozarks Electric
Proctor & Gamble Corp.
Scotties Tissue
Sharum Garden Center
Signature Bank
The Schmieding Foundation
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Walmart
Walmart Foundation
Willard & Pat
Walker Charitable Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
In Kind April -June
3W Magazine
Academy Sports
Animal Medical Clinic
Annie Edmonson
AQ Chicken
Arkamsas & Missouri Railroad
Arkansas Yoga Center
Arsaga’s
Arts Center of the Ozarks
BallSeeds
Blakeman’s
Body Works Salon
Bradford Nursery
Café Rue Orleans
Catering Unlimited
Chris and David Bell
Citiscapes
Coach Jim Sposato
Coca-Cola
Comet Cleaners
Community Creative Center
Crossover Liquor
Cumulus Broadcasting
Dancenhance Entertainment
Dave and a Camera
Derek Ridenoure
DK Design
Dr Jay & Judy McDonald
Fleet Feet Sports
Fly-N-Hog
Four Paws Grooming Salon
Gator Golf
Greenhouse Grille
High Roller Cyclery
Intents Party Rental
Joyce Mendenhall
Julie Sanders
Karen Gros
Karolyn Farrell
KNWA
Lasun Warren
Lewis and Clark
Linda McMath
Liquor World
Liz Rusher
Mary Bess Mulhollan
Mia Tarts and More
McBride Distributing
Natural Grocers
Natural State Treehouses
NiteIze
Office Depot
Open Door Cigars
Ozark Bowling Lane
Ozark Natural Foods
Paradise Valley Golf
Pesto Café
PetCo
Pinnacle Limosine Service
Pinnacle Tennis Shop
Proctor and Gamble
Revive Day Spa
Rick’s Bakery
Rolando’s
Saddlebock Brewery
Salon Professionals
Sam’s Club
Scott Bowman
Schwarz Stone
Shag Salon
Sharum’s Garden Center
Shogun Japanese Steakhouse
Steve Rogers
Steven Ironside
So-Lite Productions
Stock Building Supply
Straight’s Lawn and Garden
Table on the Hill
The Art Location
The Chancellor Hotel
The Fresh Market
The Home Depot
The Hudson’s
Theatre Squared
The Wine Group
Triden Tactical Shooting School
Tontitown Liquor
Tyson Foods
U of A Women’s Track
Underwood’s
University of Arkansas
Walker Brothers
Walmart
Walton Arts Center
White River Nursery
Willard & Pat Walker
Charitable Foundation
Winslow Stoneworkds
Woodbine Mead
Woodstone Pizza
Alan & Carol Sue Wooten
Donations
April - June
Dave and Carol Albert
Fran and Jim Alexander
Mary Ann and Jack E. Bardwell
Catherine and Clay Bass
Bella Vista Garden Club
Peter Bluemmel
Judie Branson
Doris Cassidy
Robert and Sara Caulk
Susan Chase and Dr. John Bakker
Pat Connell
Elizabeth Danley
Robert David
Jon and Joanie Dyer
Linda and Walt Eilers
Brenda and Allen Embry
Susan Esche
Ann Fulton
The Garden Club of Rogers
John and Tamara Gilmour
Mike and Janis Greer
Chet and Jan Hayes
Margaret Henderson
Jerome and Harriet Jansma
Jo Jones
Mary Ellen Jones
Lioneld and Diana Jordan
Mary Cooper King and Gary King
Gerald and Jolene Klingaman
Scott and Karen Leach
Greg and Hannah Lee
Rita Littrell and Don Hurlbut
Beverly Maddox
Sara and Bill McBee
Mike and Kim McFarland
Joyce Mendenhall
William and Bonnie Ruth
Merrifield
Michael and Constance Morse
David and Sue Mosley
Mary Bess Mulhollan
Perennial Garden Club
C.B. and Janet Richardson
Bill and Emily Robertson
Lynn Rogers
Ann Louise and John Rolloff
Maudie Schmitt
Judy and Dennis Smith
James Spencer and Susan
Parks-Spencer
Sally Stone
Betty J. Swope
The Schmieding Foundation, Inc.
Martha and Michael Ward
Elizabeth Wheeler
Jim and Joan Wimberly
New Members
Kim and Janie Agee
Gene and Susan Anderson
Nasha Anthony
Joshua and Lacey Bailey
Elizabeth Ferranti Barr
Justin Beavers
Susan Beebe
Rebecca Beschta
Jessica Billingsley
Jason and Sarah Bohannon
Pat Bourke
James and Lea Brown
Janet Brown
Bill and Jennifer Burch
Philip and Anita Burns
Mike and Debra Bush
Mary Calcote
Angela Carlin
Yosemith Castillo
Becky Chase
Jillian Chester
Ellen Compton
Gary and Karen Compton
Kandess Cossey
Jerene Cross
Erik Danielson and Jessica
Mougeot
M. Jean Darbyshire
Ellen Davis
Larry and Kris Driver
RoAnne Elliott
Gary and Carol Foust
Katy Fowler
Courtney Freet
Diana Fulkerson
Jennifer Fuson
Linda Gaddy and Bob Young
Crockett Gauthier
Melinda J. Gay
Amy Geopfest
Anna George
Butch and Cristie Ginther
Jessica Godsey
Tracy Godsey
Phoebe J. Goodwin
Rachel Groening
Ish and Mary Haley
Lory and Shane Hall
Susan Harp
Thomas Harris
Ruthann Hefner
Craig and Alecia Heinze
Trish Hines
Tina Hoover
Margaret Howell
Rebecca Hurban
Kristin Hvizda
Lou Jasper
Martha Jones
Rick Jones and Marquerette Bruce
Melissa Kamel
Robert Kilgore and Marcy
Benham
Amanda Kimbel
Holly Knox
Hattie Lee
Kay Lewis
Lorraine Lorne
Pat Lyle
Rebekah Martin
December Maxwell
Mindy Mock
Mandy Mooneyham
Katherine Moore
Renee Morris
Ralph Nesson and Kathleen
Conway
Aaron Nugent
Iris Page
Jeanne Parham
Truman Pew and Virginia
Summers
Danny Porter
Ketty Ramirez
Tyler Reagan
Nicole Reinford
Dan and Gay Riner
Melissa Sabin
Glenda Samuels
Sarah Schulte
Brian and Jennifer Scott
Dennis and Stephanie Shinn
JoAnn Skillett
Greg and Leslie Smart
Ken and Mary Smith
Amanda Song
Stephen and Jessica Spicer
Glen Steele
Carissa Strecker
Jessica Stuckey
Charlotte Taylor
Paula Thiessen
Desiree Timmons
Alysso and Susan Turner
Susan Verser
Alice Wagner
Janis Gill Ward
Margaret Whillock
Steve and Elizabeth Wilhelm
Francine Williams
Joe Paul Williams
Kurt and Brooke Wing
Valerie Wonsower
Pamela Wood
Lori Wright
Mallory Zaffaroni
Lifetime
Members
Catherine and Clay Bass
Chris and David Bell
James Bennett
Cindy Cope
Anne and Tim de Noble
Brent and Becky Heath
Betty and Gene Henry
John and Marilyn Holland
Robert and Nancy Lewis
Rita Littrell
Martha McBride
Gloria McIntosh
Phillip and Angela McKnight
Gail Pianalto
Daryl Revelle
Ron and Corrin Troutman
Bart and Kerri Vollmer
Laura and Bruce Wilkins
Honorariums and
Memorials
In Memory of Willye
Baldridge and In Honor Of
Judy B. Smith
Diane Allen
Pat Engel
Kathy Hale
Mary Lee Robinson
Pam Wandres
In Memory of Willye
Baldridge
Diane H. Campbell
Buddy and Susan Chadick
Ann Engskov
Jacqueline King
Don and Judy Schaap
In Memory of Gladys Ball,
Founder
Maple Hills Garden Club
In Memory of Wesley Eckles
Northwest Arkansas Daylily
Society
In Memory of Maureen
Graue
Northwest Arkansas Daylily
Society
In Memory of Frances Hogan
Northwest Arkansas Daylily
Society
In Honor of Daniel Keeley
Little Rock Garden Club
In Honor of Linda
McMath
Rhonda and Randall Woods
In Honor of Don Steinkraus
The Garden Club of Rogers
In Memory of Beverly
Tatman
Donald N. and Melissa
Tatman
In Memory of Charles Wilcox
Patsy Wilcox
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[email protected] ww.bgozarks.org Calendar of Events and Classes
July 18, 6:00 to 10:00 pm - Firefly
Fling: THE Summer Festival for Families; $7 and $4 with under 3 free in advance; $9 and $5 with under 3 free at
the gate
July 25, 10:00 to 12:00 - Classes @
the Cottage: Painting Your Palate with
Heather Artripe of Ozark Natural
Foods; for children 7-11; $10 members;
$15 nonmembers
Reciprocal Garden
Program
One of the benefits of being a member of the Botanical Garden of the
Ozarks is free admission and gift shop
discounts at more than 200 other botanical gardens, arboreta, and conserSeptember 17, 18, 24 and 25 - Butterfly vatories across North America. This
is thanks to the BGO’s participation
Days for area schools
in the American Horticulture SociSeptember 24 at 6:30 pm - Taming the ety’s (AHS) Reciprocal Garden ProWild: Native Plants class with Lissa gram. If you are planning an upcoming trip, you might want to browse
Morrison
the reciprocal admissions program
September 29 at 6:00 - Smoky and the for a listing of participating organizations in the area. A complete list can
Mirror free fall concert
be found on the AHS website (www.
October 5-7 - Fall Finale in the Garden ahs.org/RAP). A printable version
is also available on the site. Please
note that the guest entry fee to visit
some of the gardens is greater than
the membership fee at the BGO, so
keep your membership current!
July through October - Little Sprouts August 25, 6:00 pm - Still on the Hill
continues each Wednesday morning at free summer concert
9:30 and at 10:15 (weekly themes are at
www.bgozarks.org)
September 15 - Chefs in the Garden
July 11, 10:00 to 12:00 - Classes @ the
Cottage: Brilliant Birds with Sandy Davies; for ages 7-11; $10 for members;
$15 for nonmembers
479-750-2620