The West Hartford Garden Club’s Civic Projects Committee and West Hartford’s Public Library are sponsoring a Winter Native Seed Sowing Workshop on Sunday afternoon, February 25, from 2 PM to 4 PM at the Noah Webster Library. Space limited. Please register here.
Come learn how to grow your own native wildflowers and grasses using recycled containers using the winter sowing method of starting seeds outdoors in winter. Including native plants in your surroundings is a great way to provide food and habitat for pollinators and other wildlife. You can expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed. This workshop will cover the benefits of this method of germinating seeds and the advantages it has over indoor seed-starting, which requires grow lights and hardening-off of seedlings.
We’ll send you home with a mini greenhouse made from an up-cycled plastic jug filled with a planted seed selection. Proper aftercare will also be shared. Participants should bring their own transparent or translucent gallon jugs–clean milk or water jugs are perfect. Please bring extras to share if you have them!
Presented by Beth Ann Loveland Sennett, Advanced Master Gardener and West Hartford Garden Club Civic Projects Co-Chair, and Peter Picone, DEEP Wildlife Biologist.
Co-Sponsored by the West Hartford Garden Club.
Space is limited. Registration required.
If you have extra empty one gallon transparent milk or water jugs, please bring them to Beth Ann at 109 Walden Street, or bring them with you to the program on the 25th. Thank you for your help!
FEBRUARY 13 SEED SORTING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE SNOW.
The Civic Projects Committee is gearing up for a mid-March Seed Library Launch. They will be sorting and packaging seeds at the Noah Webster Library from 12:30 pm to 3:15 pm on January 23, January 30, all Tuesday afternoons in February, and on March 5 and March 12.
We meet in the Children’s Story Room at the back of the Children’s area at the Noah Webster Library on Main Street. Free parking is available at the Isham Garage in Blue Back Square, which is across from the back entrance to the library. The librarian will put in for your free parking – up to 3 hours. Please let us know if you are able to come by emailing us at whgccivicproj@gmail.com.
Floral Design Class
February 29th from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Noah Webster House, WH – If it snows, we will schedule a snow date.
Horizontal Design will be taught, it is designed to be low and extend out. They may also make use of evergreens and ferns to showcase the flowers.
Bring a container, greens, scissors, clippers and a lazy susan (optional).
A more complete materials list will be emailed about a week before class.
Contact Eva Jakuba if you are interested in attending – eva.jakuba@gmail.com
Spring Art Exhibit
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy is pleased to announce that during the week of the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, there will also be an exhibit of original artworks in the Garmany Visitor Center.
The art exhibit will be on view during the same days and hours as the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, March 1 through 9, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission to the show is free. Some of the artwork will be for sale.
There Will Be Two Collections on View:
“PLANTS AND POLLINATORS”
will be original watercolors painted by a group of talented botanical artists, members of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and of the Studio of Betsy Rogers-Knox in Litchfield County. Betsy exhibits widely in the US and London. In 2019, she received the Judges Special Award at the RHS Botanical Art Show in London. She is at the New York Botanical Garden.
“TREES” will be a collection of several paintings of trees in gouache by well-known local artist, printmaker and painter, Melissa Meredith. Melissa has exhibited widely and her work is represented in both private and corporate collections and in a number of select of museums.
2024 Spring Greenhouse Show
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy opens its annual Spring Greenhouse Show on Friday, March 1, featuring a spectacular array of spring bulbs and plants. The show is FREE and open to the public from Friday, March 1 through Friday, March 8.
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 succulents.
The show will take place in the historic Sweetland-Patricelli Greenhouse Complex in Elizabeth Park.
Spring Art Exhibit
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy is pleased to announce that during the week of the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, there will also be an exhibit of original artworks in the Garmany Visitor Center.
The art exhibit will be on view during the same days and hours as the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, March 1 through 9, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission to the show is free. Some of the artwork will be for sale.
There Will Be Two Collections on View:
“PLANTS AND POLLINATORS”
will be original watercolors painted by a group of talented botanical artists, members of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and of the Studio of Betsy Rogers-Knox in Litchfield County. Betsy exhibits widely in the US and London. In 2019, she received the Judges Special Award at the RHS Botanical Art Show in London. She is at the New York Botanical Garden.
“TREES” will be a collection of several paintings of trees in gouache by well-known local artist, printmaker and painter, Melissa Meredith. Melissa has exhibited widely and her work is represented in both private and corporate collections and in a number of select of museums.
2024 Spring Greenhouse Show
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy opens its annual Spring Greenhouse Show on Friday, March 1, featuring a spectacular array of spring bulbs and plants. The show is FREE and open to the public from Friday, March 1 through Friday, March 8.
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 succulents.
The show will take place in the historic Sweetland-Patricelli Greenhouse Complex in Elizabeth Park.
Spring Art Exhibit
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy is pleased to announce that during the week of the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, there will also be an exhibit of original artworks in the Garmany Visitor Center.
The art exhibit will be on view during the same days and hours as the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, March 1 through 9, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission to the show is free. Some of the artwork will be for sale.
There Will Be Two Collections on View:
“PLANTS AND POLLINATORS”
will be original watercolors painted by a group of talented botanical artists, members of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and of the Studio of Betsy Rogers-Knox in Litchfield County. Betsy exhibits widely in the US and London. In 2019, she received the Judges Special Award at the RHS Botanical Art Show in London. She is at the New York Botanical Garden.
“TREES” will be a collection of several paintings of trees in gouache by well-known local artist, printmaker and painter, Melissa Meredith. Melissa has exhibited widely and her work is represented in both private and corporate collections and in a number of select of museums.
2024 Spring Greenhouse Show
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy opens its annual Spring Greenhouse Show on Friday, March 1, featuring a spectacular array of spring bulbs and plants. The show is FREE and open to the public from Friday, March 1 through Friday, March 8.
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 succulents.
The show will take place in the historic Sweetland-Patricelli Greenhouse Complex in Elizabeth Park.
Spring Art Exhibit
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy is pleased to announce that during the week of the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, there will also be an exhibit of original artworks in the Garmany Visitor Center.
The art exhibit will be on view during the same days and hours as the Spring Bulb Show and Sale, March 1 through 9, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission to the show is free. Some of the artwork will be for sale.
There Will Be Two Collections on View:
“PLANTS AND POLLINATORS”
will be original watercolors painted by a group of talented botanical artists, members of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and of the Studio of Betsy Rogers-Knox in Litchfield County. Betsy exhibits widely in the US and London. In 2019, she received the Judges Special Award at the RHS Botanical Art Show in London. She is at the New York Botanical Garden.
“TREES” will be a collection of several paintings of trees in gouache by well-known local artist, printmaker and painter, Melissa Meredith. Melissa has exhibited widely and her work is represented in both private and corporate collections and in a number of select of museums.