Looking for Something to Do This Weekend? Come to Wild Rose, WI!

Calling all gardeners, weekend road-trippers, and classic car buffs!  This weekend it is time to combine all three!

As I primarily blog about gardening, I'll start there.  Dr. Darrel Apps, the famed daylily hybridizer, my neighbor, and local Kiwanis member is donated 70 different selections of daylilies to a Kiwanis fundraiser held on Saturday (9/21/13) morning 7:30 to 10:30 at the Lions' Building just south of Wild Rose on State Highway 22.  These daylilies are "modern" daylilies (he uses this phrase here locally, because when the locals think daylilies, they almost invariably think "ditch lilies", (a name Dr. Apps abhors).

The one thing a daylily breeder never has enough of is space.  He is cleaning out his plot of everything of which the results was similar to an already patented  cultivar, dividing out cultivars he uses for breeding and grow like gangbusters and are eating up his breeding plot's real estate, or plants he just doesn't need at this point in his breeding program.  These are the same sorts of flower sold in the White Flower Farms breeders collections of daylilies.  And, actually, a lot of those sold in the White Flower Farms catalog when Dr. Apps was at Bridgeton, NJ were his.  Now, he is here in Wild Rose.  They will be sold mostly as two fan divisions, starting at $3, going up to $10 for things like divisions of breeders' plants which would normally sell for hundreds of dollars.

I've got my eye on a few fans of this dark one!

The fans will all be labeled with color, height, and other growing information, and a name if it has one.  If you buy an unnamed one you can name it in your garden yourself!

Next, there is the Classic Car Show and Cruise.  I have lots of details on the home page of the village's website.  It's on Friday Night, and starts at the Wild Rose Elementary School, winds up on Main Street, where it is followed by a free street dance and live music.  Our Main Street is lined with over 50 scarecrow exhibits this year.  These are incredible and nearly worth the drive in themselves.

This is followed by a Saturday full of  fun: the free car show, pancake breakfast, activities for the kids... Lots to do.  If pancakes didn't fill you up, have lunch at one of our restaurants on Main Street and walk it off chatting with the scarecrows.  (We'll never tell!)

And, if you need a quiet moment to contemplate nature, take a stroll around our Mill Pond on our Boardwalk, or hop in the car and take the six mile trip over to Covered Bridge Road and the Springwater Volunteer Covered Bridge.

It's definitely worth a road trip!  Everyone here hopes to see you around!

Classic Car Show

Those scarecrows from the village's Classic Car Show
were really cute, don't you think?



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Very Spotty Frost and the Classic Car Show

I still have coleus and basil growing that I didn't cover. So, although I scraped my windshield and my car thermometer hit 36 degrees, the frost was spotty enough that protected areas in my yard did not hit 40 degrees; the critical temperature for both basil and coleus.

I have produce still covering every counter and table, although I have been using every spare minute to chop, cook, can, and freeze.

This morning is a bit overcast and the weather people are predicting some rain for Sunday. The days next week appear to be slated to be those crisp clear mild days of fall which autumn lovers adore. So what better than a cruise in the car to take in the day?

Hence...

...today is the village's Classic Car Show.

This event held each fall has become quite the event. Running my son to Madison to hook up with his dad last night I missed the street dance and car cruise. The Kiwanis have sponsored a wonderful street decorating event featuring scarecrows and corn shocks sponsored by area businesses. The decorations are quite delightful and will be the subject of a slide show on my blog and the village website in the next day or two, so be sure to catch that.

Today, I will spend some time, that precious commodity, supervising activities in the children's activity tent.

For slideshows of past years Classic Car Show, here's the link!