Helen S Kaman Rose Garden
Join us for Rose Pruning Clinics on Thursday, April 6, and Thursday, April 13, in Elizabeth Park’s Helen S Kaman Rose Garden led by Rosarian Stephen Scanniello.
The Clinics are FREE and begin at 11 am & 1 pm. Participants are asked to bring their own gloves and pruning tools.
RSVP Required
RSVP to roses@elizabethparkct.org
Eva Kakuba, Sharon Mulvey, Jane Godfey are scheduled to help out.
FGCCT 94th Annual Meeting
April 19, 2023
Aqua Turf Club
After 35 years as a senior executive in high technology, Neal wanted to try his hand at something new. Lucky for us, he decided to become a mystery writer and one of his most popular series is “The Garden Club Gang.” His books are filled with intrigue and humor. We are in for a treat. Arrive early to enjoy a wide array of vendors.
Registration deadline is Friday, April 14, (no registrations will be accepted, or refunds given after the deadline).
Registration 9:00 am – 9:30 am
Come early and enjoy Coffee/Tea, Browse Vendor Booths, Purchase Drawing Tickets
$45 per person – Luncheon includes:
Salad & Breadbasket, Dessert, Coffee/Tea Service. Cash Bar Available.
ENTRÉE CHOICE:
*New York Strip Sirloin
*Pan Seared Salmon, with Whole Grain Mustard, Honey/Ginger Glaze
*Chicken Florentine, served over Spinach with lemon cream sauce
*Vegetarian choice: Eggplant Parmigiana
To register & pay online or send a check payable to FGCCT with your Entrée choice to:
Elaine Lombardi, 198 Shore Rd, Waterford, CT 06385, questions: meetings@ctgardenclub.org
Nature into Art: Lessons from the Gardens of Wave Hill by Thomas
Christopher | Lecture, Lunch & Book Signing
One of the last surviving estates in the five boroughs of New York, Wave Hill has developed over the last half-century into one of the foremost public gardens in the United States. Join author Thomas Christopher for a photographic tour of the Wave Hill gardens, and share in the many lessons these have to teach about designing and maintaining a more beautiful landscape.
Thomas Christopher is a graduate of the New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture and has been designing and maintaining gardens for more than four decades. A former contributing editor to Martha Stewart Living magazine, he is the author of more than a dozen books about gardening, most recently Nature into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill. He also produces a weekly podcast, “Growing Greener,” a series of interviews with leaders of environmentally-informed gardening that is dedicated to making your landscape healthier, more sustainable, more beautiful, and more fun. His weekly column, “Be A Better Gardener,” circulates to more than 25 regional publications in southern and central New England with a total readership of 250,000. Thomas gardens in central Connecticut and the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.
Lecture, Lunch & Book Signing $45 / Book $40
Wednesday, April 19
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Click HERE to Register and Order Books
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Join us Thursday! “Nibbling on Natives in your Back Yard and Beyond”
PLEASE NOTE: RUSS WILL JOIN US VIRTUALLY AT THE SYNAGOGUE, AS HE IS RECOVERING FROM COVID. Russ Cohen Thursday, April 20, at 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 Join Russ Cohen, expert forager and author of Wild Plants I Have Known…and Eaten, for a 60-minute slide show featuring at least two dozen species of native edible wild plants suitable for adding to your own landscape, or nibbling on as you encounter them in other locales. Keys to the identification of each species will be provided, along with edible portions, seasons of availability and preparation methods, along with guidelines for safe and environmentally responsible foraging. Russ will also include a few details regarding some native edible plants he has grown successfully from seed, and the partnerships he has made with conservation groups and others to add edible native plants to their landscapes.
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This is a collaboration with the WH Garden Club. Time may change.
Collaboration with WH Garden Club. Taking place during morning/early afternoon hours.
Please see the attachment for more information:
The West Hartford Garden Club will have a table at the Earth Day Celebration this Saturday from 11 am – 1 pm at the Town Hall. Your Civic Projects team is coordinating our participation. Please plan to stop by at this event, which has been designed for all ages. If you would like to help, please email Beth Ann Loveland Sennett at whgccivicproj@gmail.com.