The children will be planting annuals around the Outreach facility. In advance of the planting, the committee will clean and prep the beds a day or so beforehand.
Join us Thursday for this in-person and virtual presentation!
“The World of Peonies” with Dan Furman
7:30 pm on Zoom – or join us in person at the Emanuel Synagogue
(160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford) at 7 pm
FREE for members, $10 non member donation
The World of Peonies covers basic botany and cultivation history of the various types of peonies—tree, herbaceous and intersectional—in China, Japan, and the U.S. The talk also includes propagation and cultivation how to, as well as ideas on using peonies in the landscape.
Dan Furman is co-owner of Cricket Hill Garden, a second-generation specialty nursery and forest farm in Thomaston, CT. Since joining the business in 2010, he has worked to expand the peony production program at the nursery, as well as diversify the stock grown to include unusual landscape and forest edibles.
- Meeting ID:834 1193 4540
- Passcode: 660208
- Or call in to join us on the phone:646-558-8656 (the meeting ID and the passcode are the same for phone calls.)
When you link to the meeting, please choose to not appear on screen. Also, please mute your phone/computer microphone. Dan’s presentation is what will be visible and heard. His talk will be followed by a question & answer session. Questions must be typed in and the moderator will present the question to Dan for all to hear. Log in anytime between 7:15 and 7:30, and you will be let in from the Zoom ‘waiting room’ when the presentation is about to start, at about 7:30.
If you can’t join us Thursday, not to worry. Dan’s talk will be recorded and the video link will be sent to all members the week after the meeting. This is just one of the many features of membership – we thank you for supporting our efforts.
If you opt to attend in person, feel free to bring gardening-related items (plants, books, etc.) for our ‘Garden Market’ – all proceeds go directly to our Scholarship Fund.
Please donate your extra garden and house plants.
It will be held outside due to the nice hot weather.
Those of you who are helping set up – there has been a time change – anytime after 1:30 until we get done (2-3 hours).
There will be canopies to keep us cool. Plants will be organized under each shelter. Sun one canopy, vegetables another and so forth.
Members can pull in the parking lot to unload, then your car will need to be moved to the street.
Perennials, Vegetables, House Plants. Garden Shop, Planters and more.
For those who have the first shift on Saturday, originally scheduled for 8:30 am, but it will now be 8:00 am. So you are welcome to arrive anytime after 8 am and then be ready for our customers by 9:00 am.
The parking lot will be used for the tables and canopies.
Let’s keep the 2 + spaces for our customers.
The inside of the NWH will be open for us to cool off. There will be bottles of water and other goodies, it is advised to dress appropriately.
Steve Kovack, Matt Budaj and I plan to meet at Spice Bush Swamp Park to move mulch to our new garden site. If you are available to help, great! If you want to come and simply look at the sites, that’s fine too.
If you can bring a wheelbarrow and shovel, even better. Other tools that would help are rakes, string trimmers and clippers. Of course, wear gloves and other protective clothing (hats, bug spray, sunblock, goggles, … as needed).
The forecast is for a high of 77 and cloudy, so it should be a good day to be working outside.
Hope to see you there or at our Plant Sale at Noah Webster (9-3) on Saturday,
Please take the time to take a look at our garden sites at Spice Bush Swamp: both our current Pollinator Pathway Garden (near the parking lot, circled by brownstone rocks) and the new Bird and Pollinator Friendly Garden (over two foot bridges). If you see any weeds, feel free to pull them.
On Monday, May 30, 9 – 11 am, Madeleine plans to go to Spice Bush to plant. Please come join her if you can.
During the summer, she will keep the new garden cleared of invasives and water the new plantings and our Pollinator Garden. She has a two-week rotation planned. If you can spare an hour several times a week for two weeks to water, please let her know if you are willing to join the rotation.
She is planning to spend an hour or two in our Spice Bush Gardens on Monday mornings starting at 9 am (and possibly earlier as the temperatures rise, she will let you know). Beth Ann Sennett is also planning to garden there once a week. Any one is welcome to join us.