Made-to-Order Tomato Sandwiches with Homemade Herbal Spreads
Freshly Brewed Herbal Teas
Homemade Cookies
Fresh-cut Herbs and other items
Special-Café 219 Herbal Paletas!

Sponsored by The Gulf Coast Herb Society
Saturday, June 22, 2013
7:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Market in the Square
Cathedral Square

Proceeds help maintain the Herb Garden at MBG

Alpinia Zerumbet Chinese beauty yu hwa variegated

Curcuma Inodora

Curcuma Ladawan Beautiful tall flowers presented well above the leaves, unlike the shy flowers of some other hidden gingers. A new and somewhat untested hybrid, but likely hardy along the Gulf Coast. About 3 feet.

Curcuma Petiolata Snow Drift

Curcuma Roscoeana

Curcuma Scarlet Fever

Curcuma Chocolate

Curcuma Elata Giant Plume  One of the biggest hidden gingers with large showy flowers that often poke out above the leaves.About 5 feet. Hardy and easy.

Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Showy plants, very tough, with famously spicy roots used in the making of curry, and recently touted for its anti-inflammatory properties. One of the Gulf Coast’s great homegrown herbs.

Costus Cuspidatus Spiral Ginger

Costus  Pictus Spiral Ginger  Stems spiral like a leafy corkscrew, with charming yellow flowers. Hardy Along The Gulf Coast In Well-Drained Soil. About 4 To 5 Feet.

Costus  Pictus “Red Stem”

Costus Speciosus Crepe Ginger  Stems spiral like a leafy corkscrew, with what may be the showiest flowers in the genus. large white goblets on showy red “cones.” Hardy along the Gulf Coast in well-drained soil.

Costus Speciosus Variegated Crepe Ginger

Dichorisandra Thysiflora Blue Ginger

Hedychium Anne Bishop Orange

Hedychium Dr. Moy Variegated Yellow Do people grow Dr. Moy for its beautifully variegated leaves or its beautiful peachy orange flowers? Well, you can have both. About 5 feet. Hardy and easy.

Hedychium Elizabeth One of the most beautiful colors of any Kahili ginger hybrid, a kind of pinkish, melony orange. About 5 feet. Hardy and easy.

Hedychium Pink variegated pink/peach

Hedychium Ayo Delicate white flowers with a peach throat, showy and fragrant and tough as nails. About 5 feet. Hardy and easy.

Hedychium Chrysoleum Yellow Spot A classic big, white and fragrant butterfly ginger flower, but with a yellow spot. 5 to 6 feet. Very hardy. Very easy.

Hedychium Coccineum Orange Brush   Very showy reddish orange bottlebrush flowers on plants 4 to 5 feet tall. Hardy on the Gulf Coast.

Hedychium Coronarium White Butterfly The classic pure white butterfly ginger, incredibly fragrant, incredibly robust. Grows and spreads rapidly, a delight to some, a mild nuisance to others. But easy to clear out. Big and easy, to 6 feet tall  or more.

Hedychium Flavum Golden

Hedychium greenei Like a butterfly ginger, but red, red, red flowers. OK, maybe they’re more scarlet than red, but man, they are red. Unusually attractive foliage as well. Not much fragrance, but when you’re this red, who cares? About 5 feet. Hardy and easy.

Hedychium Kai Yang

Hedychium Luna Moth

Hedychium Thrysiforme

Hedychium Disney

Kaempferia Grande

Kaempferia Pulchra Silver Spot

Kaempferia Pulchra Bronze Peacock

Kaempferia Pulchra Mansonii

Zingiber Zerumbet pinecone ginger The classic pinecone lily, with flowers resembling a pinecone dipped in wax.. About 5 feet. Hardy and easy.

Zingiber Zerumbet darcyi variegated pinecone

Hydrangea

Trees and Shrubs

• Vitex
• Hamelia patens
• Abelia
• Hydrangeas, Hydrangeas, Hydrangeas!
  Blue Bird, Merrit Supreme, Charm, Masja, Goliath, Big Daddy, Ami Pasquier, Blamaise, Mini Penny, Evergreen, Oakleaf, Limelight

Color for Sun

Cajun Hibiscus

• Hibiscus: Coccinia, Mutabilis
• Rubeckia:
  Maxima, Lancelota, Goldstrum
• Salvia:
  Mystic Spires, Indigo Spires, Madrensis
• Echinacea
• Stokesia
• Agapanthus
• Buddelia
• Leonardius Leonii
  (Lions Mane )
• Agave

Part Shade

Giant Tropical Spider Lily

• Crinums: Ellen Bosanquet, Hannabile, Powellii
• Spider Lilies and Giant Tropical Spider Lilies
• Persian Shield
• Camellias

Shade

Tricyrtis

• Hostas
• Asarums
• Solomon’s Seal
• Tricytrus (Toad Lily)
• Aztec Lily
• Gloriosa Lily
• Farfugiums
• Blood Lily
• Aspisdistra

JUNE 22 is GINGER DAY!
We will have a full complement of kaempheria, cucurmas, hedychiums and more – list coming soon!

Artist in Residence Val Webb guides children through the fun process of making botanical prints using natural elements and an etching press. 10 am – Noon, $5/child. Ages 5-12 with adult.

• Val Webb
• Fred Marchman
• Ardith Goodwin
• Anne Brooks
• Ainsley McNeely
• Mary Rodning
• Benita McNider
• Betsy Adams
• Stacey Howell
• Holly Carrigan

Val Webb is an artist and illustrator from Fairhope, AL and her studio is an old house, surrounded by a sprawling organic garden. Her artwork celebrates botanical images from the garden and beyond. An illustrator of 11 books for children, Val Webb is known for her drawings of garden and nature subjects. She has conducted workshops at botanical gardens, parks and nature centers throughout the southeast, and she serves as the 2013 Artist in Residence for the Mobile Botanical Gardens.

Mary Rodning  A trail has been left in my heart by painting with wet soot on mulberry pulp through two years in Japan and two months in China which will follow me my entire life, which is not one of an Asian recluse, but one of mothering three sons, now seven GRANDchildren, being the wife of a poet and surgeon, upkeep supervisor of our small Alabama farm and its critters, dreamer of canoeing the north woods, personally knowing all the birds in our woods, staying in touch with our Creator and his people, washing more clothes and dishes than paint brushes, practicing and painting the art of life while living it.

Stacey Howell starts every painting with an idea or observation and saturates herself with that image, bringing out all the left brain stuff at her disposal and then lets the magic begin. She creates using the subconscious intuition that God gave us all. She paints in oil and acrylics, using a wide variety of mediums. She has won many awards and has been honored to create art for many local fundraisers. She teaches color mixing and her mastery of color can be seen in her vibrant paintings. She loves the gulf coast and feels blessed to live and paint in such a beautiful place.

Ardith Goodwin is an enthusiastic artist, writer, instructor, with a vivid imagination. Her life journey has been one filled with physical challenges, moments of self-discovery, and great passion to share her love of art, writing, and courage with people from around the world. A self taught artist, the signature trait in her artwork is color and no matter the medium be it watercolor, mixed media, or collage, that is the tie that binds her pieces together in beautiful harmony.

 Ainsley McNeely is a native of Alabama, and has drawn and painted all her life. A student of the old masters and the great artists of the 1800’s, she originally worked primarily in watercolor and graphite then expanded into oil, pen & ink, pastel, sculpture and more recently casein, frequently mixing media to achieve the desired effect. Her oils use a Victorian color palette, giving them a distinctive feel compared to the contemporary colors used by other artists while her pastels are done on a handmade paper with a unique almost leather-like appearance, giving them an antique flavor. She holds a B.A. in studio art from Florida State University and a master’s degree from the University of South Alabama.

  Fred Marchman, MFA, BFA, painter, sculptor, and printmaker, studied painting at the University of Alabama and sculpture at Tulane University. His career includes a wide range of approaches to materials and themes both traditional and modern. While he regards himself as a Modern Artist and Southern Pop Artist, he also does work of a more easily accessible style, as seen in his decorative wildfowl carvings, mixed media landscapes, still life’s and floral subjects. The artist uses a range of media including bronze, stone and wood in sculpture; printmaking in woodcuts, silkscreen, etchings and computer art; collage, acrylic painting and murals.

Benita Hatfield-McNider, has been active in the local arts for many years. When not creating her own works, she teaches oil painting at Bay Rivers Art Guild in Daphne. She is active in many local arts organizations, including Mobile Arts Council, the Eastern Shore Arts Council and the Portrait Society of America.

Betsy Adams pursued painting as an elusive hobby for many years, before a move to Fairhope allowed her to spend more time learning technique. Flowers are her passion, and she enjoys growing, arranging and painting them. Recently, she has begun to explore portraiture to capture her grandchildren as they grow. Most of all, painting gives her a calm, quiet time to create and give expression to the beauty that surrounds us.

Friday & Saturday, May 3-4, 2013
9 am – 5 pm daily.

MAP                       HOUSES

Explore seven local private gardens and discover new ideas for your own May 3-4 at this year’s Gallery of Gardens tour! Experience garden diversity as you tour homes in Spring Hill, Old Dauphinway, and Midtown Mobile. This year, the entire street of Flo-Claire is joining in the spirit and sprucing up their front yards for the tour!

As you visit each garden, look for Plein Air artists painting on site, and feature plants that will be available in the MBG MarketPlace. Master Gardeners will be at each location to give visitors descriptions of the gardens and highlight ideas they can use at home.

Tour and MarketPlace hours are 9 am to 5 pm Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Mobile Botanical Gardens office or MarketPlace, or at any of the participating ticket outlets listed below. Group rates are available to groups of ten or more. For more information call (251) 342-0555. To purchase tickets online, click here.

Ticket Outlets

Mobile:

• A Bloom Nursery
• Carpe Diem
• Laura Kay’s Nursery
• MBG Office (M-F)
• MBG Marketplace (Saturdays)
• Spring Hill Ace Hardware
• Wild Birds Unlimited
• Zimlich’s Patio & Garden Center

Eastern Shore:

• Old Tyme Feed (Fairhope)
• Page & Palette (Fairhope)
• Robertsdale Feed & Seed

Florida:

• Duh (Pensacola)
• Garden Gate Nursery (Gulf Breeze)

Mississippi

• Courtney Farms (Ocean Springs)

Let’s change the way we eat!

A lack of dietary fruits and vegetables has been tied to many health issues, including obesity. Alabama ranks second in obesity and first in diabetes in the entire country, certainly not areas we’d like to excel in. But it’s hard to eat healthy – fresh produce availability in urban areas can be limited, or just plain expensive, especially when compared to the cost of processed foods. And what do you do with those vegetables once you get them home?

Seed To Table combines the best features of community gardening with instruction in food preparation and healthy eating habits. Studies have shown that maintaining and harvesting a garden builds a pride in ownership and accomplishment that can be rewarding and can bolster self-confidence. Our inaugural program, in association with Mobile Housing Board, is located in the Renaissance Corridor, just off Beauregard Street. Twenty-five families will soon be tending their own individual garden plots. Once they’ve started their gardens, they’ll attend cooking classes and create healthy menus using their produce.

Want to help? We’re currently in need of volunteers to work with our participant families in the garden on a weekly basis, as well as demonstration chefs and dieticians. Contact us for more details.

Val Webb is an artist/illustrator from Fairhope, AL and her studio is an old house, surrounded by a sprawling organic garden. Her artwork celebrates a thousand small joys: botanical images from the garden and beyond.

An illustrator of 11 books for children, Val Webb is known for her drawings of garden and nature subjects. Val is a two-time winner of the “Best Illustration” award from Alabama Press Association and was featured in the book, “1,000 Artists’ Journal Pages” from Quarry Press. To see examples of her work, visit www.ValWebb.com.

Look for Val at:

• Sketching in the Gardens March 30
• Botanical Drawing Workshop April 25-27
• Children’s Botanical Collagraphy May 25
• Gallery of Gardens, with other Plein Air Artists
• work in the Gardens throughout the year
• special MBG Members Only events in June and September