August 2, 2003
Historical Gardens – Heirloom Plants
Faust County Park
15185 Olive Boulevard
Conway Garden

Welcome to the August meeting here at Conway Garden in the Historical Village of Faust, St. Louis County Park.

“I wish to thank Claire Schumann, Joan Hood, Sue Reed and Elizabeth Roche for carrying out this month’s club meeting, while I am out of town with my wife.” Doug Wolter Claire can really give you some great inside information on this the Conway Garden since she has been working on planting and upgrading this garden for the past 10 years. She is a Master Gardner. She has a wealth of information about Heirloom plants with her many years of experience working with them and seed collectors.

Enjoy a new magazine – this is the second issue, the summer 2003 issue The Heirloom Gardener Magazine the first in Heritage, enjoy.

There is so much to talk about – absorb – learn about history in general, let alone getting into history – Historical Gardens – Heirloom Plants.

A brief history of gardening carries you across the six continents and through thousand of years of stories about the human urge to grow plants for food and pleasure. If you look at history in general and how it offers us a lot in an overlook toward the natural world to consider our health, our spirits, and our love for the world that our children will inherit. We should cultivate our garden, and their history with intelligence, care for the future to keep our Heirlooms and Heritage.

HISTORICAL SITES

• Faust Park
• Jefferson Barracks
• The Bissell House

COMMON PLANTS BY CENTURY

• Seventeenth Century Plants 1600-99
• Eighteenth Century Plants 1700-99
• Nineteenth Century Plants 1800-1899