P6 The SpokeSman • WedneSday, march 31, 2021
Earth’s Art: Tropical plants make it ‘1,500 square foot of nothing but jungle’
he said, adding that running a humid-
ifier or spraying the plant every so of-
ten also helps.
The quarter-acre of land adjacent to
the building houses a greenhouse and
a wide array of colorful pottery — “the
best of the best” high quality plant pots
from Vietnam, said Ludeman. “Pot-
tery is a big thing to us and people love
big beautiful pots and they really dress
up a house nicely,” he said.
A long-time Central Oregon res-
ident, Ludeman brings in perenni-
als, trees and shrubs (specializing
in dwarf conifers) that are suited to
the climate and works hard to be a
full-service garden center — supply-
ing not only plants, but also education
and even landscaping services.
“We have some factors here with
the deer, the cold, all those things
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Ludeman found the old gas station
about ready to be torn down, he said,
when looking for a place to open a
garden store in Redmond. Instead of
doing a complete demolition, Lude-
man got creative. Envisioning drive-up
sales for hanging baskets in spring,
pumpkin sales in fall or Christmas
trees in December, he kept much of
the gas station structure intact.
Most of the plants inside the build-
ing are tropical plants — “1,500 square
foot of nothing but jungle” — which
do need some special care in Central
Oregon’s dry climate, said Ludeman.
“People do two things with tropical
plants: they overwater and they un-
derfeed, so if you can get control on
your watering and get food to it all the
time that plant will thrive well here,”
contribute to how successful you’ll be
with your plantings,” Ludeman said.
“So we’re here to help coach you, edu-
cate you.” Ludeman said he trains his
staff so they have the tools they need
to help their customers be successful
in both their outdoor gardening and
with indoor plants.
Opening a business during the
Covid-19 lockdown felt “kind of risky
and scary when we entered into it,”
said Ludeman, but being designated
an essential business allowed them to
open as planned. With people spend-
ing so much time at home, “people
were coming to try to beautify their
home now,” he said, which was a
boon to nurseries and garden centers
around the country.
“We love what Redmond has as far
as the community,” he said. “The town
has been very supportive … and we’re
very appreciative.”
Ludeman also had support from
an old friend, Doug Stott, who owned
Redmond Greenhouse for many
years — and also happened to ride the
school bus with Ludeman when they
were both children in Harney County.
“He coached me on Redmond and
said Redmond’s a great place and so
hopefully I can service this town as
well as Doug has through the years
and give people what they’re looking
for,” said Ludeman.
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Reporter: lvalenti@redmondspokesman.com
Lydia Valenti/Spokesman photos
Customers peruse the plants at Earth’s Art.
The garden center carries a multitude of large pots for plants.
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Flashback: The chicks in the mail (1996)
100 years ago
March 31, 1921 — De-
schutes Has Monopoly on Net-
ted Gems
Oregon is facing a short-
age of certified seed potatoes
and the only Netted Gem seed
in the state is in Deschutes
county, according to a state-
ment issued by the Oregon Ag-
ricultural College.
“The quantity of certified
seed in the state,” says the state-
ment,” is not great but the qual-
ity is good. Netted Gems head
the list with 1975 sacks.
“The Netted Gems are all in
Deschutes county. Multnomah
county has 425 sacks of Bur-
banks and 15 sacks of Early
Rose. In Clatsop county there
are 10 sacks of Early Rose and
20 sacks of Burbanks. In Ben-
ton county can be found 225
sacks of British Queen.”
The college advises growers
throughout the state to get in
touch with the county agents
of the counties mentioned as
having the variety of seed they
desire.
75 years ago
April 4, 1946 — Herd Im-
provement Program Revived
Functioning of the Central
Oregon Dairy Herd Improve-
ment association, which was
discontinued during the war,
will be resumed within a week
or two, according to County
Agent H.G. Smith, when Bill
Holcomb, who will do the
cow-testing work, returns from
a short course on the subject at
Oregon State college.
At present 25 herds have
been signed under the pro-
gram with a total of 493 cows.
These are excerpts from
The Spokesman’s archives
from this week in history. To
read the full stories, visit
redmondspokesman.com
In former years the association
was testing up to 700 cows.
Holcomb, a veteran, was em-
ployed before the war at the
Central Oregon Cooperative
creamery. It is expected that
he will work part-time in the
creamery now until the volume
of herd improvement work ap-
proaches former figures.
50 years ago
March 31, 1971 — Pilot auto
course opens new avenues
Avenues that may lead to
a lifetime career, avocational
skills or a needed summer job
are being explored by 12 Red-
mond High School boys.
The students are among 35
Deschutes and Crook county
boys enrolled in Central Ore-
gon Community College Au-
tomotive Department’s pilot
program.
Daily the boys, chosen for
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Baptist
Roman Catholic
St Thomas Roman Catholic
Church
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For the most current information
for Bible study and worship:
www.hbcredmond.org
1720 NW 19th Street
Redmond, Oregon 97756
541-923-3390
Father Todd Unger, Pastor
Mass Schedule:
Weekdays 8:00 am
(Except Wednesdays)
Wednesday 6:00 pm
Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm
First Saturday 8:00 am (English)
Sunday 8:00 am, 10:00 am (English)
12:00 noon (Spanish)
Non-Denominational
Seventh Day Adventist
945 W. Glacier Ave.,
Redmond, OR
April 3, 1996 — The chicks
in the mail
On certain mornings this
time of year, patrons at Red-
mond’s post office will hear
something distinctly different
than the usual bustle of let-
ter and package sorting in the
back room.
What customers might at
first mistake for one of those
stress-reduction recordings
that play nature sounds is, in
fact, the real thing: hundreds
of fuzzy, chatty little chicks
bunched together in cardboard
boxes waiting to be claimed
by the likes of Lavonne Smith,
co-owner of The Feed Barn in
Redmond.
Smith figures that she orders
about 4,000 baby chickens and
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OBITUARY
Lyla Ollerenshaw
February 23, 1944 - March 21, 2021
Lyla Jean was the youngest of three daughters born Feb.
23, 1944, to Lyle and Clara (Trachsel) Smith in what is now
known as Aloha, Oregon. She graduated from Sunset High
School.
Highland Baptist Church
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25 years ago
turkeys each year, and nearly
every one of them arrives safe
and sound from Western Or-
egon or Boise via the Postal
Service.
Selling for $1 apiece, most
of the chicks are reared as
egg-layers, though some, such
as the fast-growing cornish
cross chicks, are bred as fryers.
For places like The Feed
Barn, chicks might as well be a
dime a dozen: The real revenue
comes from sales of feed.
But for Shanks Hatchery in
Hubbard, south of Portland
along I-5, newborn chicks are
the bread and butter.
Owner Gil Jones ships just
shy of a million chicks a year to
300 wholesale customers. Nine
out of 10 of the small birds,
packed a few short hours after
hatching, are sent in the mail.
Jones said that the yok sac
provides all the nourishment
a chick needs for the first few
days out of the egg — long
enough to survive the jour-
neys. And the birds keep each
other warm in the shipping
boxes.
Receiving a hand-craft ed photo greeti ng card from Lyla
Ollerenshaw was a refl ecti on of her love of Central
Oregon. She died March 21 of congesti ve heart failure at
age 77.
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Barry Campbell, Lead Pastor
the program by high school
officials, are bused to COCC’s
Applied Science Department
in downtown Bend for a three-
hour session. Then it’s back
to Redmond for regular high
school classes.
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She worked many years as a sign painter for PayLess Drug
Stores in Salem and on the opening crew of the Redmond
store in 1979. She and her husband, Gary, whom she
married on Nov. 26, 1979, in Bend, owned and operated
Xpress Lubes in Redmond and Bend from 1996 unti l 2006
when she reti red.
Besides craft ing greeti ng cards, Lyla enjoyed sewing
and fl ower gardening. She was a lifeti me cat lover
and benefactor of rescue cats, owning more than 27
throughout her lifeti me.
Lyla is survived by her three sons, Thomas (Karen) of
Redmond, Wash., Eric (Ava) of Tualati n, and Lenny Heiple,
of Boise; nine grandchildren and a great granddaughter;
sisters Sue McClure, of Fossil, and Karen Eschelby, of
Vernonia; four nieces and two nephews and three cats.
Her family will hold a private memorial service this summer
to distribute her cremains. Memorial contributi ons are
suggested to Brightside Animal Shelter or Cat Rescue
Adopti on and Foster Team, Bend.
Nancy (Hazelwood)
Lee Ariail of Bend, OR
David L. Hanson
of Redmond, OR
May 16, 1945 - March 21,
2021
Arrangements:
Baird Funeral Home of
Bend is honored to serve
the Ariail family. Please
visit our website, www.
bairdfh.com, to share
condolences and sign our
online guest book.
Services:
A service will be held later
in the summer for friends
and family
Contributions may be
made to:
Meissner Nordic
https://meissnernordic.org/
donate/
PO Box 2032 Bend, OR
97709-2032 Phone: 541-
316-0831
March 31, 1949 - March
18, 2021
Arrangements:
Arrangement entrusted
to Redmond Memorial
Chapel. 541-548-3219.
Please leave condolences
at redmondmemorial.com
Services:
Services will be held at a
later date.
Contributions may be
made to:
Redmond Band of Brothers
Samye J. Stills
of Redmond, OR
February 27, 1958 -
January 16, 2021
Arrangements:
Arrangements Entrusted
To: Redmond Memorial
Chapel
www.redmondmemorial.
com ; 541.548.3219
Services:
Private Family Services
Contributions may be
made to:
Brightside
Dan Henry Skeels
of Madras, OR
Dec 23, 1928 - March 19,
2021
Arrangements:
Autumn Funerals, Red-
mond 541-504-9485 www.
autumnfunerals.net
Services:
Services will be held a
later date.
Daniel Gilbert Sanders
of Redmond, OR
March 19, 1949 - March
26, 2021
Arrangements:
Autumn Funerals-Red-
mond is honored to serve
the family. 541-504-9485.
Condolences may be con-
veyed to the family at www.
autumnfunerals.net
Services:
A service will be held in
California at a later date.
Elaine M. York
of Redmond, OR
Jan 29, 1926 - March 16,
2021
Arrangements:
Arrangements Entrusted
To: Redmond Memorial
Chapel www.redmondme-
morial.com ; 541.548.3219
Services:
Private Burial Services
Contributions may be
made to:
Local Charity of Choice
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