Rain date will be June 13.
Join us for a special Field Trip on Tuesday, June 11 (rain
date June 13). We’ll carpool from West Hartford at 9:00
a.m. for the estimated one-hour drive. We will first visit
the garden of WHGC club member Susan Fellman at 45
Ivy Mountain Road in Goshen. Susan’s 18th-century
cape is surrounded by shade gardens, mature trees, and
a pond. A long row of perennials and daylilies frames
the upper yard. An old hydrangea vine climbs a large
maple tree. Stone walls line the property separating the
lawns from the wooded areas. There are many Hosta
varieties with a small flower bed and raised vegetable
beds handy to the stone terrace and screened porch.
The beginnings of a meadow garden with native plants
are in a sunny area by the pond.
Next, we will visit Elizabeth Zander’s Alpine Garden, just down the road from Susan. Elizabeth is past President of the North American Rock Garden Society. Over the past 20 years, she and her husband Rod have built numerous crevice beds in the extensive rock garden. This was after tutelage by the international Czech garden designer Zdenek Zvolanek. Last year Elizabeth created a tufa (the porous rock composed of calcium carbonate and formed by precipitation) crevice garden finishing the curve of the existing raised bed. This year, a new raised crevice bed was put in surrounded by a yellow tile path. In this garden, are many rare Western and Turkish alpines. Elizabeth has planted a hundred or so species from seed.
We will then lunch at Market Place Tavern, 7 North Street in Litchfield around noon and from there have the option to go to White Flower Farm at 167 Litchfield Road in nearby Morris, just fifteen minutes down the road. Please sign up at our upcoming meeting or contact Billie Reese at 860-841-2457 to save your place for this fun day together!