We are inviting all people willing and able to help us make the Gardens colorful again for 2018. Our annual planting day has been scheduled for Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 10:00 am. Please bring trowels and gloves (and kneeling pads if you want those). Ernie and Shirley will make sure the beds are ready, and have plant material for us to install. This usually takes about 2 hours, and is lots of fun.  Wear a hat or sun cream if it is sunny.

Attention photographers:

The Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens Photo Contest Committee is pleased to announce that the Photo Contest may be reactivated for 2021!

So start taking photos and look for more details in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,

Barbara Valenzuela

Dunsmuir Photo Contest Committee

Category: Artistically Enhanced

Adult

First Place and Adult Division Winner: David Sjostedt “Coleus”

Second Place: David Sjostedt “Watercolor”

Third Place: David Sjostedt “Bleeding Hearts”

Youth

First Place: Zeke Buchert “Make A Wish Fountain”  

Lanscape/Scenery

Adult

First Place: Patty Hood “Star Maple”

Second Place: Patty Hood “Forgotten”

Third Place: Barbara Valenzuela “What’s Up?”

Youth

First Place: Zeke Buchert “Summer River”

Category: People In Nature

Adult

First Place: Linda Price “Family Fun”

Second Place: Bob Baldo “Catch of the Fall”

Third Place: Cora Sue Swords “Untitled”

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Professional

First Place, Professional Division Winner and Peoples Choice Award:Traci Kivela “New Beginnings”

Second Place: Traci Kivela “It Started With A Kiss”

Third Place: Traci Kivela “Love is a New Addition”

Youth

First Place: Zeke Buchert “Old Man and the River”

Second Place: Zeke Buchert “Daydreaming Grandfather”

Category: Plants

Adult

First Place: Patty Hood “Forest Gems”

Second Place: Patty Hood “Spring Glory”

Third Place: Patty Hood “Morning Light”

Youth

First Place and Youth Division Winner: Zeke Buchert “Explosion of Blue”

CATEGORY: LANDSCAPE/SCENERY

ADULT

First Place: Bob Baldo “Moss Scape”

Second Place: Bob Baldo “Autumn Reflections”

Third Place: Bob Baldo “River Dance”

YOUTH

First Place: Zeke Buchert “Spring Wall”

Second Place: Zeke Buchert “Fall Beauty”

No other YOUTH entries in this category

CATEGORY: PEOPLE IN NATURE

ADULT

First Place: Bob Baldo “Golden Butterfly”Second Place: Linda Price “My Backyard”Third Place: Gretchen Barlow “Step Into The Garden”

YOUTH

First Place: Zeke Buchert “One With The River”

No other YOUTH entries in this category

CATEGORY: PLANTS

ADULT

First Place: Patty Hood “Viburnum Lace”

Second Place: Dave Sjostedt “Morning Glow”

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Third Place: Lindsey Culotta “Pink Flower With Orange Ring”

YOUTH

First Place: Zeke Buchert  “Rhododendron Splendor”

Second Place: Zeke Buchert “New Life”

No other YOUTH entries in this category

CATEGORY: WILDLIFE

ADULT

First Place: Lindsey Culotta “Heron”

Second Place: Gretchen Barlow “The Watcher”

Third Place: Carlee Punt “Butterfly”

No YOUTH entries in this category

BEST OF SHOW: Patty Hood “Viburnum Lace”

ADULT DIVISION WINNER: Patty Hood “Viburnum Lace”

YOUTH DIVISION WINNER: Zeke Buchert “One With The River”

PEOPLES CHOICE: Bob Baldo “Moss Scape”

CARTEGORY: PLANTS

ADULT

First Place:  Gretchen Barlow   “Japanese Maple”

Second Place:  David Sjostedt  “Pinwheel in Hollow Log”

 Third Place:  Linda Sue Runnels  “Fairies Dancing in the Woodlands”

YOUTH

First Place:  Carlee Punt  “Leading Light”

Second Place:  Carlee Punt  “Fall”

No other YOUTH entries in this category

CATEGORY: LANDSCAPE/SCENERY

ADULT

First Place:  Linda Sue Runnels  “A Peaceful Spring”

Second Place:  Bob Baldo  “Dunsmuir Splash”

Thrid Place:  Linda Sue Runnels  “Make A Wish”

YOUTH

First Place:  Zeke Buchert  “River Foliage”

Second Place:  Carlee Punt  “Red Maple”

Third Place: Zeke Buchert  “River Boulders”

CATEGORY: PEOPLE IN NATURE

ADULT

First Place:  Gretchen Barlow  “Garden Princess”

Second Place:  Linda Sue Runnels  “Plein Air Painting in the Gardens”

Third Place:  Linda Price   “Tribute to the Trees”

YOUTH

First Place:  Zeke Buchert  “Flyfishing”

Second Place: Carlee Punt  “Sitting Pretty”

Third Place:  Carlee Punt  “Patrick’s Snack”

CATEGORY: WILDLIFE

ADULT

First Place:  Victoria Yerkes  “Busy as a B–“

Second Place:  Dave Sjostedt  “Autumn Hunger”

Third Place:  Victoria Yerkes  “Bird”

YOUTH

No YOUTH entries in this category

BEST OF SHOW:  Zeke Buchert  “Flyfishing”

ADULT DIVISION WINNER: Linda Sue Runnels  “A Peaceful Spring”

YOUTH DIVISION WINNER: Zeke Buchert “Flyfishing”

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD WINNER: Linda Sue Runnels ” Make A Wish”

Judges: Taryn Burkleo  Photograpy by Taryn, Heinz Danzberger  Red Door Gallery,                        Kevin Lahey   Kevin Lahey Photography

The 2014 Botanical Gardens Photo Contest winners were announced at the Gallery Show and Reception held October 10 at the Siskiyou Arts Museum.  Please return to see their photos here beginning in November 2014.

The new and long-awaited Interpretive Signs have been installed in the Botanical Gardens.  The four, full color laminated signs give information on the geological context of the Gardens, the Crevice Rock Garden, the flora and fauna of the river setting and the native plants endemic to the Gardens.  The signs are placed in different locations throughout the Gardens so visitors can enjoy them as they stroll throughout the beds.

Brian Wilson, Jerry Totten and Candace Miller, Gardens’ Horticulturalist

This project was made possible through funding from the Union Pacific Foundation, Shasta Regional Community Foundation, the Don and Florence Bottega family and the many private donors to the Botanical Gardens.  This commitment to the mission of the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens, to provide horticultural education to the members of the Dunsmuir Community and the people who visit here, is greatly appreciated.

Brian and Jerry making sure the sign is level and straight

The Gardens’ Board of Directors also wishes to thank Dunsmuir Recreation and Parks Board members, Jerry Totten and Brian Wilson, for installing the signs, Bowen Saunders who worked so hard digging the eight post holes, Linda Price of LP Designs for her design and layout of the signs, the experts in their fields who contributed the specific information for the individual signs and Gardens’ Horticulturalist, Candace Miller.

Brian adds cement to ensure a sturdy and permanent installation

The Road Scholars made their annual stop at the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens for an evening meal hosted by the Botanical Gardens Board of Directors during their inter-generational tour of northern California on June 24th.  The Botanical Gardens Board will host another group of Road Scholars visiting the Gardens on July 22, 2014.

The children, ages 6-10, and their grandparents came from Michigan, Ohio, British Columbia, Washington and California to experience life in a true railroad town and the fun and “can-do” attitude of the “Boxcar Children” in the book series written by Gertrude Chandler. The group stayed in the cabooses at Railroad Park.  During their 3 day stay in Dunsmuir, they visited Hedge Creek Falls, Mt. Shasta City Park and the headwaters of the Sacramento River, the Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, the Dunsmuir Railroad Museum and Shasta Caverns.

After a home cooked meal of gazpacho, lasagna, rice and vegetable casserole, salad, garlic bread, ice cream and brownies, the 26 Road Scholars toured the Botanical Gardens with Gardens’ horticulturalist, Candace Miller, or played in the Children’s playground.

Road Scholar is the name of the program developed and offered by Elderhostel, Inc., the not-for-profit world leader in life-long learning. Road Scholar has enrolled more than 5 million participants in its educational adventures world-wide since its founding in 1975.

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