rain date is May 19.
Please sign up for the West Hartford Garden Club Field Trip to Sleepy Cat Farm, Greenwich, CT, scheduled for Thursday, May 12, rain date May 19. See details below. We currently have 24 people signed up!
We are very excited for the Field Trip to Sleepy Cat Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut. This trip is an all-day trip, leaving at 8 am and returning around 6:30 pm. The trip is not handicap accessible, as the land can be rocky at the Farm. Masks must be worn on the bus and proof of vaccination is required to get on the bus. The cost of the trip is $89 and includes the bus ride, Sleepy Cat Farm, lunch, and tip to the bus driver. The trip has a maximum of 40 people. After April 10, we will open the trip to non-members, if it has not sold out. The bus will stop mid-way both ways to stretch and have a bathroom break. The day is planned out to have the tour, go to lunch at The Spotted Horse Tavern in Westport and visit the wonder shop of Terrain in Westport before heading back to West Hartford.
The bus will be leaving from the commuter lot across from Target by Route 9 at 8 am. Please call Billie Reese (860 841-2457) or Charlotte Massie (860 280-6802) if you have additional questions. Masks must be worn on the bus and proof of vaccination is required to get on the bus.
- Sign up and mail your check to Billie Reese at 82 Foxridge Road, West Hartford. Make your check out to “Friendship Tours” for $89. Your place on the bus will not be reserved until we have your check.
- Let me know what lunch you would like – the choices are Hamburger, Salmon Avocado Wrap or a Cobb Salad. Lunch will come with a drink and a dessert.
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.