Our third and fourth lifetime members are Mary and Joe Jackson, also mentioned in the previous article. Along with Mary's duties as Treasurer, Mary and Joe were the primary caretakers of the Behm Entry Garden last summer. Joe's big red truck transported many loads of perennials and rhodies from the old garden to the new garden, and Joe also monitored the Port's cleanup of the new garden site. Like Stephen, any attempt to list all of their contributions to the success of the garden would surely suffer from errors of omission. This is the second season for the Behm Entry Garden, dedicated in June, 2000.
Winter is the time to clean the garden of last summer's plant debris.
The day lilies were glorious, but now their dried up leaves need to be composted. They also need to be relocated to coordinate them by color. Shoots are already poking up through the mulch. Elda and friends of HBG have been potting up bulbs for a wondrous spring display. Every weekend in January and February you will find Elda at the entry garden working to make the floral display bigger and better than last year.