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We can't say it enough...

Thank you to Donna Dinsmore, Mary Farrell, Niilo and Joan Koponen, Chena Newman, Virginia Damron, Pat Holloway, Lisa Neumuth, Susie Zimmerman, Margaret and Leroy Wiedeman, Kathleen Buchholz, Judy Weber, and Sheila Finch for donating buckets of books for the annual Noel Wien Library book sale. It was great fun getting re-acquainted with plenty of bibliophiles and selling lots of books!

Thank you Les Brake and the Willow Garden Club for ONCE AGAIN donating to support our perennial flower gardens.  Your donation will allow us to renovate another flower bed into an interesting experimental garden.   

Thank you Tima Priess for donating some wild and wonderful indoor plants to the GBG greenhouse. You always know how to find the most unusual, interesting plants!

Thank you Les Brake and the Willow Garden Club for donating to support Susie Zimmerman's perennial flower garden.
Thanks also to Susie for agreeing to design a great garden!

Thank you Whitestone Greenhouses, Delta Junction, for your generous donation of annuals and perennials to the Garden.

Thank you Mary Jane Derendoff for donating coleus plants to the GBG greenhouse collection.
We will use them this year for grafting demonstrations.

Thank you to Risse Greenhouses for allowing our volunteers to hold a successful plant sale at their business in late May. They also donated a portion of their sales on that day to the Garden. We appreciate their generosity and support.

Thank you to Oregon Perennials, especially Piet and Andre Wierstra and Ko Klaver for donating peony roots of 12 cultivars to add to our long term trials.

Thank you Ann's Greenhouses, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, Chena Lakes Farms, Gulliver's Books, Hawks Greenhouses, Holmtown Nursery, Plant Kingdom, Risse Greenhouses, Samson Hardware, and Sunnyside Gardens for supporting our first annual $500 springtime garden shopping spree.

Thank you to Jan Hanscom and the GBGS Board for writing a grant proposal to the State Legislature to keep the garden going this summer.

Thank you to Daisy Lee Bitter, Kachemack Seascapes, Homer, for a fabulous collection of orchid cacti better known as Epis and donation of horticulture books.

Thank you American Public Gardens Association for a travel grant to send Katie DiCristina to a workshop for the Western Region Sentinal Plant Network in Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, CA, for early detection and reporting of plant pests.

Thank you Walt and Marita Babula for a huge list of landscape supplies, garden sculptures, and hundreds of volunteer hours to support the Babula Children's Garden!

Thank you Ted and MaryAnn Fathauer for buying an electric bicycle for the GBG!
Our creaky legs appreciate it!

Thank you Mark Kochenbach and Etta Gardiner for volunteering to keep our greenhouse plants alive this winter, even when temperatures hit minus 40F!

Thank you Sheila Finch for your fine help with the weather garden mosaic and great assistance around the office.

Thank you Les Brake and the Willow Garden Club for your generous donation to support Susie Zimmerman's perennial flower garden.
Thanks also to Susie for agreeing to design a great garden!

Thank you Jan Hanscom for your fabulous mosaic directional compass in the
Babula Children's Garden

Thank you Linda Dolney and Donna Dinsmore for donating books for the
volunteer's upcoming book sale.

Thank you GBG Volunteers for your dedication and service to the botanical garden!

 

Thank you to the following statewide organizations for supporting the GBG Endowment:

Anchorage Master Gardener's Association

Ann's Greenhouses (Fairbanks)

Baycrest Greenhouse (Homer)

Coyote Gardens (Hatcher Pass)

Fairbanks Garden Club

Forget-Me-Not Garden Club (Fairbanks)

Homer Garden Club

Mat Su Master Gardeners

Meadow Lakes Bloomers Garden Club (Big Lake)

North Root Big Lake Gardeners

Top of the World Garden Club (Fairbanks)

Valley Garden Club (Wasilla)

Willow Garden Club

..Your support means the world to us – Pat, Grant, Katie & Kathleen!

University of Alaska Fairbanks Georgeson Botanical Garden - P.O. Box 757200 -
Fairbanks, AK 99775 - (907)474-7222 - gbgardensuaf@gmail.com