1. home and garden

Photograph by David Muench
2015 Corrales
Garden Tour
June 7, 2015
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Sponsored by
Corrales MainStreet
in cooperation with
Sandoval County Master Gardeners
www.corrales-gardentour.com
505-350-3955
FrontierMart
Boutique grocery store featuring gourmet treats from
Corrales and other parts of New Mexico
Specialty items include fine wine, craft beer, coffee, chocolates,
chile products, blue corn products, jellies, and jams
3677 Corrales Road
www.frontiermart.com
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Perennial Delights
Dear Garden Lovers,
Welcome to the Corrales Garden Tour!
We are delighted you are joining us to experience this year’s
six distinctive gardens. Our small village also contains unique
shops, galleries, restaurants, B&Bs and wineries which we hope
you’ll explore while here. The Tour, a collaboration of Corrales
MainStreet and the Sandoval County Master Gardeners, raises
funds for a future landscape project in Corrales.
The tour includes gardens in the bosque with cottonwood trees
and clay soils using flood irrigation and sand-hill gardens with
sagebrush and drip systems. They all have xeric elements; many
focus on edible as well as ornamental plants. Some are designed
by leading landscape designers, some by owners. Each is unique
and represents the aesthetic, functional needs and personalities of
the owners. We are grateful to the owners who have graciously
shared their wonderful gardens. Hopefully their creativity and
hard work will give you new ideas for your own garden.
The tour depends on the dedicated work of many volunteers.
“Charming People” will greet you, take your tickets and
answer questions, Traffic Directors will help you safely park,
and Sandoval County Master Gardeners will answer plant and
irrigation questions at each garden. Special thanks to the 2015
Garden Tour Committee members who worked hard developing
this special event: Debbie Dapson, Linda Fahey, Polly Garner,
Mimi Glover, Mary Hardy, Barbara Kline, Ann Kostrzewa, Lenore
Reeve, Nancy Renner, Ann Taylor and Sue Trevor. Many thanks
to all our volunteers!
Thank you also to our advertisers. Their support is critical. Please
visit them. Finally—door prizes are offered as a gift beyond the
gardens themselves. Please fill out your ticket and leave it at the
last garden you visit for the door prize drawings.
Thanks for coming, and we hope you have a great day!
Sandi Hoover and Cheryl Mitchell, Co-Chairs
Corrales Garden Tour Committee
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Plein Air Artists Painting the Gardens
14 Plein Air Artists will be at
their easels painting the gardens
as you enjoy the 2015 Corrales
Garden Tour. “Plein Air” is
French for painting scenes on
location in the “Open Air.” The
artists will focus on an area of
the garden that tells a story and
begin sketching. They typically
use oil paints or pastels. These
artists follow the tradition of French painters from the 1840’s
using small, portable painting kits to create an outdoor mini
studio. Painting outside has a spontaneity that cannot be achieved
in the studio. Each painter has his or her own distinctive style
and expression. There will be two artists at each home on the selfguided tour. You are welcome to watch the magic unfold.
On June 9th and 10th, you are invited to the Exhibit and Sale of all
the paintings done during the tour at the Old San Ysidro Church
located at 966 Old Church Road from 10am-5pm.
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Garden #1
The Debbie and Rick Clemente Garden
One of the main reasons
we bought our home was
because of the beautiful
gardens and labyrinth
(designed by former
owner Mita Bell) located
in the middle of our front
yard. It’s been exciting to
discover the peace and
contentment walking the
labyrinth gives us. It’s
also a thrill to see other
people come to walk it, and know they are enjoying it as well. It
is listed on the “Worldwide Labyrinth Locator” and open to the
public during daytime hours.
Surrounding the labyrinth is a variety of plants and trees
(designed by Judith Phillips) that provide a parade of color to the
landscape from spring through fall.
The backyard is full of xeric plants and grasses that wave
gracefully at us during the year. The covered portal is a lovely
place to sit and enjoy nature and listen to the waterfall of the koi
pond (fondly named Mrs. Paul’s Frozen Fish Pond in winter). We
spend a lot of time maintaining what is here and have fun adding
to it. Last year, we built a greenhouse along with three large raised
beds that are cultivated as “square foot” vegetable gardens.
Beyond the landscaped portion of the backyard, we have leveled
some weather worn buildings and planted a field of grass.
Our dogs love it. Unfortunately, so do the gophers! But most
important, Rick’s lifelong dream of owning a ride-on mower has
finally come true!
We come from Southern California where gardening, for us, is a
more natural act. We continue to experiment to see what works
well here. We hope you enjoy your visit, and please feel free to
walk the labyrinth whenever the mood strikes.
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Acequias – New Mexico’s historically
important water delivery system
From the beginning of Spanish
settlement in New Mexico, acequias,
controlled water channels, have
been used to irrigate fields. The
word itself comes from Arabic (alsaqiya), meaning carrier of water.
Locally, water from the Rio Grande
is routed through channels running
north to south.
The main Corrales acequia was dug
in the 18th century and has been
maintained and upgraded since then. Laterals and check dams with
liftable gates allow landowners with water rights to direct water onto
their land. The amount of water allotted to each owner is regulated
by a ditchrider, so all in the community receive a fair share of water.
In the heart of Corrales, water diverted from the Rio Grande is spread
over yards and fields, percolates to the shallow water table and is
carried slowly by gravity back into the river. Acequias provide an
efficient and frugal irrigation. This ancient method keeps drinking
water in the aquifer, keeps the cottonwood eco-system healthy, and
helps mitigate hot summers by creating a band of cooler damper air
near the river.
In the sandhills, well water is the only irrigation choice since
the elevation is too high to use river water. Here is where drip
systems, native plants and drought tolerant plants are encouraged,
minimizing the use of water from deep aquifers.
Historically, different cultures living in semi-arid to arid lands
arrived at similar constructions to irrigate crops. There is evidence
of hand-built channels to direct water for dry-land farming by
southwestern Indian tribes long before the Spanish brought their
acequia system to the Americas.
Last fall New Mexicans were honored for work in maintaining the
historical importance and use of acequias in a public ceremony in
Valencia celebrating the brotherhood of New Mexico and Spain.
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Garden #2
The Jim and Mary Vesely Garden
We bought this acre plus piece of
property in 1988 after relocating
to New Mexico from Chicago. At
one time in Corrales history, it
was known as “the place to pick
wild asparagus.” Along with the
wild asparagus and beneath the
large old cottonwoods, the lot was
a tangled jungle of weeds, scrub
elm and Russian olive trees. As an
added bonus, hidden from view
underneath one thick knot of tall
weeds was the sagging, rustedout carcass of an abandoned
Volkswagen Beetle.
Changing the landscape took months of digging up small trees
and pulling out stubborn weeds, while at the same time battling
hordes of stinging red ants who didn’t take kindly to change. Our
first attempt at gardening was to create a vegetable garden. We
soon learned that it was impossible to dig in the caliche soil, much
less grow anything in it. After several years of amending the soil,
the main flower garden, consisting of annuals and perennials
and more recently roses, was created. The vegetable garden was
expanded and “lasagna soil” was created by layering manure
(thanks to our neighbor Mike’s horses), cardboard and straw.
We have several gardens to accommodate the different microclimates, which vary from arid and sunny to moist and shady. The
property is irrigated by a drip system, sprinklers and traditional
flood irrigation, which is unique to New Mexico with its historic
Spanish acequia system.
The gardens along the fence and the rock garden are relatively
new. The gardens are forever changing. Irises are the prominent
flowers in the spring followed by daylilies in summer. We hope
you enjoy our gardens as much as we do.
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Lasagna Gardening
Lasagna gardening is a no-dig, no-till organic gardening method
that results in rich, fluffy soil with very little work from the
gardener. Also known as “sheet composting” lasagna gardening
is great for the environment, because you are using your yard and
kitchen waste and essentially composting it in place to make a
new garden.
One of the best things about lasagna gardening is how easy it
is. You don’t have to remove existing sod or weeds. You don’t
have to double dig. In fact, you don’t have to work the soil at all.
The first layer of your lasagna garden consists of either brown
corrugated cardboard or three layers of newspaper laid directly
on top of the grass or weeds in the area you’ve selected for your
garden. Wet this layer down to keep everything in place and start
the decomposition process. The grass or weeds will break down
fairly quickly. This layer provides a dark, moist area to attract
earthworms that will loosen up the soil as they tunnel through it.
Anything you’d put in a compost pile, you can put into a lasagna
garden. The materials you put into the garden will break down,
providing nutrient-rich, crumbly soil in which to plant. Just as
with an edible lasagna, there is some importance to the methods
you use to build your lasagna garden. You’ll want to alternate
layers of “browns” such as fall leaves, shredded newspaper, peat,
and pine needles with layers of “greens” such as vegetable scraps,
garden trimmings, and grass clippings. In general, you want your
“brown” layers to be about twice as deep as your “green” layers,
but there’s no need to get finicky about this. Just layer browns and
greens, and a lasagna garden will result. What you want at the
end of your layering process is a two-foot tall layered bed. You’ll
be amazed at how much this will shrink down in a few short
weeks.
Lasagna gardening is fun, easy, and allows you to make new
gardens at a much faster rate than the old double-digging method.
Now your only problem will be finding plants to fill all of those
new gardens!
Adapted from an article by Coleen Vanderlinden
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Everything’s Happening in Corrales
Art-in-The-Park
June 7, August 2, September 6,
October 4
New hours 9:30am-4pm
www.nmartistsmarket.org
Corrales Growers Market
Every Sunday June–October
9am–Noon
Wednesdays starting in July, 3-6PM
505-898-6336
Wine Fair
September 26–27. Hours vary
www.visitcorrales.com
Harvest Festival at Casa San
Ysidro
September 26–27
www.cabq.gov/museum
Mercado Antigua
Old San Ysidro Church
Casa San Ysidro
September 26–27, 10am–4pm
www.corraleshistory.org
Old San Ysidro Church Tours
27th Annual Old Church Fine
Arts Show and Sale
Second Saturday Programs
www.cabq.gov/museum
Sundays, June–September, 1–4PM
www.corraleshistory.org
Sunday in Corrales
June 7, August 2, September 6,
October 4
www.visitcorrales.com
Free Father’s Day Concert
Sunday, June 21, 5–8PM
La Entrada Park
www.kiwanis-corrales.org
Opening Reception: Friday, October
2, 5–7pm
Show and Sale: Saturday, October 3
thru Saturday October 10, 11am-5pm
Sunday, October 11, 11am–4pm
www.corraleshistory.org
Corrales Holiday ArtFest
Friday-Sunday, November 27–29,
10am–4pm
Soccer Field, Corrales Rd.
www.nmartistsmarket.org
4th of July Parade and Family
Fun Day
26th Annual Fine Crafts Show
Saturday, July 4th, 10am
www.visitcorrales.com
Friday-Sunday, December 4–6,
10am–4pm
www.corraleshistory.org
Music in Corrales
Shop Corrales
Scarecrow Festival
Starlight Parade and St. Nick
Night
Old San Ysidro Church
www.musicincorrales.org
September 23–October
Throughout the Village
www.visitcorrales.com
November 27–December 30
www.visitcorrales.com
December 5, 5:30pm
www.visitcorrales.com
Corrales Harvest Festival
Saturday, Sunday September 26–27,
9am–5pm
www.corralesharvestfestival.com
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Garden #3
The Bill and Penny Perkins Garden
Intimate, quiet spaces of green and shadow, winding
flagstone paths, water in a lily pond, a thrasher bubbling
with song atop a towering juniper tree, and the ninety year
old terron farmhouse still standing, still vital, engulfed by
gardens and the life that exists within them. Once farmed
land that reached for the acequia, now gardens reaching
out to the mountain, opening to follow the long and narrow
grass ‘allee’, bordered by blossoms humming with bees
and butterflies, by grape and rose-wrapped trellises, and
by garden rooms, each of its own character and defined by
fences of giant reed. Living spaces that are the creation of a
forty-year effort by a family blessed with the opportunity to
work and come to know this small piece of valley land.
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Corrales Garden Tour 2015 Will
Highlight Different Types of Gardening
In addition to
providing visual
delights for the
2015 tour guests,
participating
gardens in the 2015
Corrales Garden
Tour demonstrate
specific gardening
techniques and/or
conservation features.
All the property owners on the Garden Tour have worked hard to
develop their garden landscapes taking into account their microclimates, soil limitations and water requirements while employing
conservation features. These garden properties are true examples
of gardening as a process of love and labor, and the owners would
like to share their stories with you during the tour.
Three of the gardens on the tour will feature Master Gardener
experts to demonstrate particular gardening techniques and/
or conservation features utilized by the property owners. For
example, at the Schneider garden you can learn about rainwater
harvesting and the use of gray water to supplement irrigation
in the landscape and the use of mulch to preserve moisture in
the soil. At the Clemente property you will see raised vegetable
beds and learn about the space saving concept of “Square Foot”
gardening.
Working with different soil types will be part of the Master
Gardener conversation throughout the tour. The art of improving
soils through the “Lasagna” method of composting will be
demonstrated at the Vesely property, and you’ll learn about the
role of acequias in maintaining our magnificent cottonwood trees
in Corrales.
Master Gardeners will be available in each garden to provide
information, answer questions, and to help identify plants and
explain their maintenance.
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Garden #4
The Jim and Jean Fink Garden
“Where the Buffalo Roam”
Twenty years ago our
objective was to integrate
indoor/outdoor living
spaces to reflect our life
style and love of nature.
But where would we start
with a new home and empty
land in the sand hills?
Unsure where to begin, we
hired Penny Shrum from
Rowland’s Nursery to create
the design. It was the best
thing we ever did! A bare area became the siesta site for our lifesize buffalo, sculpted from rebar, adobe, chicken wire and stucco.
Thus, the beginning of “Where the buffalo roam”! The bottom of
our pool now incorporates a plastered and tiled buffalo fetish. Jim
also sculpted a buffalo into the wall of our adobe outdoor kitchen.
A rose bush given as a present was the beginning of our rose
garden. Our vineyard began with grape cuttings from a friend.
All landscaping, adobe walls, sprinklers, extensive drip systems,
retrieving rocks and boulders, the “funky” fence, outdoor kitchen
with hand sculptured concrete counter top and latilla ramada,
and WEEDING has been done by “us”! Last summer, we added
an area of prairie grasses, wild flowers and an abundance of
birdfeeders. Our basset hound, Daisy, has her own tree house to
oversee and amuse neighbors.
Our backyard patio area with various grasses, an abundance of
flowers and shrubs and a pool has been the setting for a wedding,
birthday parties, Fink’s Corrales Camp for our grandchildren,
neighborhood Summer Olympics and an upcoming Family
Reunion. Our garden remains a work in progress with ongoing
changes because of something new we have learned or a plant we
have been given which inspires us with it’s texture, color, shape
and water use.
Welcome to “Where the buffalo roam”!!
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Corrales Garden Tour Quilt Raffle
In 2014 the Corrales Garden Tour
featured its first “garden themed”
quilt in a raffle to benefit the Sandoval
County Master Gardeners (SCMG).
The money raised by the quilt raffle
is used to support SCMG community
and educational projects. The SCMG
have successfully worked with the
Corrales Garden Tour for the past six
years. Given the popularity of the quilt
raffle last year, two quilts will be available this year. These quilts will be
on display at the Pat and Justin Kirby Garden.
One quilt, a generous donation from the NM Quilters’ Association quilt
bank, is 84” by 84”, queen-sized, with a floral pattern reflecting the
garden theme. The second quilt, created by a Sandoval County Master
Gardener, is Ker Bloom—a named pattern, a contemporary, multicolored floral design, 71” by 82”, double/queen. The raffle tickets are
$5 each or 3 for $10 and may be purchased at the Kirby Garden. The
winners will be chosen at the end of the Garden Tour on June 7, 2015.
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To develop and manage a community-based
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Village of Corrales, its traditions, way of life,
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Garden #5
The Pat and Justin Kirby Garden
“Needs well drained
soil”, said the tag on
the plant. “Buddy,
have I got a deal for
you,” said Pat Kirby
as she grabbed the
plant and headed for
the cash register.
When Pat and
husband, Justin,
first moved into
their Corrales home,
she was less-thanenthused about the property’s beach-sand-masquerading-as-soil.
You’d think her multitude of failures with clay-ish soils might
have suggested that sand wasn’t so bad. But...alas, Pat can be
rather thick. Fifteen years later, the Kirby garden is a colorful
little oasis in the Corrales sand dunes, where native and drought
tolerant plants thrive, along with a few sturdy rose bushes and
two tiny lawns. The Kirbys describe their garden as “Secret
Garden meets Redneck,” because of the multitude of do it yourself
projects.
Within the wall, brick pathways wind among planting beds. A
tile banco forms one side of a rock garden. Perennials dominate
the beds, with annuals occupying the flowerpots. Because Pat
admires their can-do spirit and doesn’t have the heart to pull
them out, annuals are sometimes tolerated as “volunteers” in beds
and in the cracks along the pathways. All the planted beds with
the exception of the small vegetable garden and the wildflower
garden are on drip irrigation.
Custom gates, all designed and built by Justin, highlight the
garden. The large Tree of Life gate is an eye-catching centerpiece.
The garden hosts a variety of quirky statuary, including original
creations by Justin and Pat. Look out for giant spiders, dragons,
fairies and …zombies.
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The Corrales Garden Tour
Committee and Corrales
MainStreet wish to thank
the generous donors
of the door prizes that
make our Garden Tour
so special. Garden gifts,
gift certificates, wine
and restaurant gifts are
very popular and much
appreciated. Please visit
these donors and thank
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could win! To those who do
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Garden #6
The Bill and Marjory Schneider Garden
Arriving in Corrales
in August of 1999, we
immediately began
work improving the
grounds of a home left
unoccupied for several
years. Weeds the size
of small trees covered
the entire property.
Our first several
years were spent on
structure: enlarging the front patio, adding a berm, walkways,
delineating planting areas from the lawn with railroad ties and
fencing where appropriate. The summer of 2005 we built a deck
around a large Cottonwood tree on the north side of the house
and also put a pond 40ft by 15ft at the east end of the deck. The
5ft depth protects the fish from predators.
The pond is a source of great joy for us with the variety of life it
supports: fish, turtles, frogs, toads, a water snake, dragonflies,
birds and bats. The berm in the center of the yard is planted with
perennials, multiple bulbs, annuals, and shrubs, and seems to
always be in bloom. The perimeter beds around the property are
filled with roses, shrubs, and fruit trees.
Because we like the cooling effect of lawn, but are conscious of
water use, we compensate by watering from a shallow well with
non-potable water, by mulching beds heavily with ground up
leaves from our Cottonwood trees and by capturing and watering
with rainwater and household gray water.
We grow patio plants and house plants including succulents
in our greenhouses where we will have items for sale. All the
successes and mistakes in design and plant choices to cope with
the Corrales climate and clay soil have been our own. Now we
love having time to share what we have learned.
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