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!
Civic Projects Committee’s year-end meeting.
Please bring your favorite tools for weeding and pruning. A co-chair will arrive at the garden by 8:30 a.m.
PARKING: Parking will be in the paved lot next to the Amos Bull House on South Prospect Street. We encourage you to carpool as space is limited.
We plan to work if the rain is light. If it is pouring, you will get a cancellation call by 8:00 a.m.
Please remember to bring your favorite gardening tools for weeding and pruning.
If it is raining on your scheduled day, the rain date will be the next day.
Rose Garden Tour with Rosarian Stephen Scanniello
Join Rosarian Stephen Scanniello for rose garden tours on June Wednesday, June 19, at 10 am and 1 pm.
The Helen S Kaman Rose Garden is the oldest public rose garden in the United States and the third-largest Rose Garden in the country. The Heritage Rose Garden is Elizabeth Park’s garden of exceptionally old varieties of roses, some of which predate 1867.
The tour is FREE and begins at the flagpole outside the Cottage (the green building across from the Helen S Kaman Rose Garden).
No registration is required.
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Join Sam Hoadley, the Manager of Horticultural Research at Mt. Cuba Center, as he highlights knockout native species and cultivars from their trials. Top performers and favorites of Monarda, Phlox, Helenium, Echinacea, wild hydrangea, Carex, and Vernonia represent some of the best native plants for the mid-Atlantic region and beyond. Sam will discuss their horticultural and ecological performance and will share important information on standouts that will make beautiful additions to your garden. |
| Parking info for the church: We encourage you to carpool to the church for Mr. Hoadley’s presentation. There is metered on-street parking on College, Court, and Broad Streets which is free after 6 pm.
The Middlesex Corporate Center parking garage also has parking and the entrance is on College Street between Main Street and Broad Street, one block south of the church with a pedestrian path from just east of the parking garage entrance directly to the front of the church. It charges .75 cents per half hour.
The Russell Library parking lot entrance is on Broad Street, just north of Russell Library, between Court Street and Washington Street. It charges $1/hour until 8 pm.
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The Strategic Planning Committee and the Executive Board met this week to come up with a plan to help alleviate some Membership issues.
We have two policy changes to bring to the Board for a vote in order to implement them. Our Bylaws state that any policy changes have to be approved by two-thirds of the Board, and to announce that to the membership. In order for us to include these changes (assuming we have the 2/3 votes needed) in our new yearbook before it goes to print and implement these proposals in September, we are calling for a special Board Meeting to take up these issues.
To accomplish this, I’m asking you to read the attached proposals and attend the ZOOM meeting on Monday, June 24th at 7 pm. Enclosed is a link to the Zoom meeting.
Cecily Vasington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75471465332?pwd=SpoUFUJp7mXXIr1hGfB81ubNXlwkWl.1
Meeting ID: 754 7146 5332 Passcode: srv8zH
Thank you for your interest and support, and we hope to see you at our ZOOM
meeting. If you are unable to attend this meeting, please share your vote with
Susan Lindberg by June 24th . To move this along we need YOUR vote. Thank you!
Tree Tour with Arborist John Kehoe
Arborist John Kehoe will lead an informative Tree Tour through Elizabeth Park (an accredited Level I Arboretum) on Wednesday, June 26 at 10 a.m.
John Kehoe is the former City Forester for the City of Hartford and his experience with tree care and maintenance spans more than 40 years.
Learn about the many different species and notable trees throughout the Park, some of which date back over 100 years.
Tour is FREE and begins at the flagpole outside the green Cottage.
Rain Date: June 27.
We hope that some of you may want to join us at Wojan’s Woods, a land trust property at the end of Davenport Road, to plant fern plugs. The restoration of this little urban woods is a project our club has supported in collaboration with the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy, our local land trust. We helped to remove invasive plants and helped to plant trees and shrubs and perennials over the last few months. Fern plugs are in, and planting is tentatively scheduled for June 27th (and perhaps June 29th) at 9:30 am. Note that this project is approved for Master Gardener Community Service Hours.
If you are interested in helping out, please let Beth Ann know so that she can keep you in the loop!