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Mar
9
Thu
Elizabeth Park Conservancy – Spring Greenhouse Show @ Elizabeth Park Greenhouse
Mar 9 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Show is FREE and open to the public Friday, March 3, through Friday, March 10, from 10 am to 4 pm. Included in the floral display: French hyacinths, Muscari, tulips, daffodils, amaryllis, scented geraniums, pansies, trellised sweet peas, culinary herbs, hanging baskets, Spanish oregano, Alpine strawberries, Dianthus, and a collection of tropical plants and succulents.

Floral Design Committee – Spring Planning Meeting @ St. John's Episcopal Church
Mar 9 @ 11:00 am

Floral Design Committee is scheduled to meet before the general meeting in the back room next to the ramp entrance.

Open Meeting @ St. John's Episcopal Church
Mar 9 @ 12:00 pm

Top 30 Plants for your Landscape”

Speaker: Kaitlyn Larson

Third generation owner of Larson’s Garden Center, Burlington, CT

Kaitlyn, who has a special interest in landscape design, will share with us her top 30 plants to use in our landscapes.

OPEN MEETING, Guest donation $10.00

Program: Peggy Bliss

Flower arrangement: Barbara Cloonan

Tea sandwiches, cookies and beverages will be served.

Mar
10
Fri
Elizabeth Park Conservancy – Spring Greenhouse Show @ Elizabeth Park Greenhouse
Mar 10 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Show is FREE and open to the public Friday, March 3, through Friday, March 10, from 10 am to 4 pm. Included in the floral display: French hyacinths, Muscari, tulips, daffodils, amaryllis, scented geraniums, pansies, trellised sweet peas, culinary herbs, hanging baskets, Spanish oregano, Alpine strawberries, Dianthus, and a collection of tropical plants and succulents.

Mar
11
Sat
Connecticut Master Gardener Symposium
Mar 11 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Elizabeth Park Conservancy – Bulb & Plant Sale @ Elizabeth Park Greenhouse
Mar 11 @ 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Join us for a one-day plant sale from 9 am to 2 pm.  Visitors are asked to bring their own trays, boxes, or carts to carry away their plant purchases. Bulbs and plants may be purchased on the day of the sale by CREDIT CARD or CHECK.

 

 

Mar
13
Mon
Seed Library Prep Help @ Noah Webster Library
Mar 13 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In preparation for our March 18, 2023 Grand Opening of our Seed Library at the Noah Webster (main branch) of the West Hartford Public Library, we need help with applying our WHGC logo stickers to seed packets. Guided instruction will be provided. It’s easy and fun!

WHEN: 3/13/23 and 3/14/23, 11 am – 1 pm

WHERE: Main library near the reference desk

Helpers can park in the Isham lot and go to the library’s Info desk for parking ticket validation for up to 4 hours, if you provide your license plate number.

Questions can be sent to Beth Ann Loveland Sennett by text at 860-729-4150 or by email to blovelandsennett56@gmail.com. We thank you in advance for supporting this wonderful community project.

Mar
14
Tue
Seed Library Prep Help @ Noah Webster Library
Mar 14 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In preparation for our March 18, 2023 Grand Opening of our Seed Library at the Noah Webster (main branch) of the West Hartford Public Library, we need help with applying our WHGC logo stickers to seed packets. Guided instruction will be provided. It’s easy and fun!

WHEN: 3/13/23 and 3/14/23, 11 am – 1 pm

WHERE: Main library near the reference desk

Helpers can park in the Isham lot and go to the library’s Info desk for parking ticket validation for up to 4 hours, if you provide your license plate number.

Questions can be sent to Beth Ann Loveland Sennett by text at 860-729-4150 or by email to blovelandsennett56@gmail.com. We thank you in advance for supporting this wonderful community project.

Mar
15
Wed
Budget Meeting @ Madeleine Hexter's
Mar 15 @ 1:30 pm
Mar
16
Thu
CT Horticultural Society Lecture Series via Zoom
Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm

Join us Thursday!

“Poppies, Peacocks and Parterres – Gardens of Scotland”

with

Nancy Stevens

7:00 pm on Zoom

 

FREE for members, $10 non member donation

In her presentation, Scottish native Nancy Stevens will discuss everything from a 17th century Renaissance parterres to a garden of cosmic speculation; from General Eisenhower’s “holiday home” to the garden where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes acquired his extensive knowledge of poisonous plants. You’ll view an artist’s garden, an author’s garden, see where Clive met Louise & Henrietta, and learn what the size of your walled garden says about your social status.

After working in the corporate world of banking, commerce and industry as ICI, GEC, Nancy Stevens decided to switch careers and become a freelance journalist. This has been augmented by her lifelong passion for plants and gardens: 30 years of owning gardens of various shapes, sizes and topography, supplemented by garden visits, broadened by the written word and topped off by membership of an excellent gardening club; in her case, Baldernock Gardening Club, where she was chairman, as she said, “for seven very enjoyable years.”

Click here to join us via Zoom

When you link to the meeting please choose to not appear on screen. Also, please mute your phone/computer microphone. Nancy’s presentation is what will be visible and heard. Her talk will be followed by a question & answer session. Questions must be typed in and the moderator will present the question to Nancy for all to hear. Log in anytime between 6:45 and 7:00 pm, and you will be let in from the Zoom ‘waiting room’ when the presentation is about to start, at about 7:00 pm.

If you can’t join us on Thursday, not to worry. Nancy’s talk will be recorded and the link will be sent to you next week. This is just one of the many features of membership – we thank you for supporting our efforts.