For more information, please check the website: FGCCT Annual Meeting.
Leslie, a landscape designer and a member of the Landscape Design Council, will help us celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, considered the father of American landscape architecture. His designs provided an opportunity for people to interact with nature as well as other people. Olmsted understood the impact a designed green space had on people’s social, mental, and physical health when he began designing public parks. We will explore the relevancy of his design principles and our interests in public green spaces by looking at Olmsted parks, their current issues, and the newest trends in public green spaces. We will use Olmsted’s Connecticut parks as a starting point and then look at some of the newest and most intriguing new park spaces through the design lens of Olmsted design principles. Leslie will speak about today’s parks, their role in our lives. |
Free Rose Pruning Clinics
Free Rose Pruning Clinics in Elizabeth Park’s historic Helen S. Kaman Rose Garden.
Join us for FREE Rose Pruning Clinics on April 6, 7, 13, & 14 in Elizabeth Park’s historic Helen S. Kaman Rose Garden.
Clinics are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own gloves and pruners.
RSVP to roses@elizabethparkct.org
Due to Covid, we cannot go into Plant Housing to do the workshop but will continue to bring the donated (discarded) flowers from Whole Foods, Blue Back Square.
Contact Chuck or Justin 860-523-8500 at Whole Foods 3 days prior to save flowers with our name WH Garden Club. Contact Gary Bagdashian, the manager, at 860-462-7368 at Plant Housing that you will be bringing the flowers on that Wednesday. Pick up flowers at the flower kiosk between 10 am and 2 pm. and deliver to Plant Housing.
Free Rose Pruning Clinics
Free Rose Pruning Clinics in Elizabeth Park’s historic Helen S. Kaman Rose Garden.
Join us for FREE Rose Pruning Clinics on April 6, 7, 13, & 14 in Elizabeth Park’s historic Helen S. Kaman Rose Garden.
Clinics are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own gloves and pruners.
RSVP to roses@elizabethparkct.org
About this event
Join Natural Dividends in celebrating Planet Earth and all things sustainable at our upcoming Earth Day event. Sunday, April 24th, Noon to 4:00 PM, in West Hartford.
This event is one of a kind!
You will have the opportunity to engage with organizations and individuals making a difference in the community. Everyone can learn how to start living a more sustainable lifestyle and easily implement it at home. Want to do your part but unsure how? This is an opportunity to get involved and learn! All are welcome!
What is happening at this FREE event?
- Take a free slow flow yoga class
- Participate in a trash pick-up
- Engage with local organizations
- Bring non-perishable food items to support the West Hartford Food Bank
- Support a plastic film collection by the West Hartford Land Trust
There will be multiple organizations in one location. This is a great way to get involved within your community to Increase Nature’s Share and empower us to start making changes for a more sustainable tomorrow.
Here are some of the organizations involved:
- BlueEarth Composting
- HeatSmart West Hartford
- The Clean Energy Commission
- Root2rise
- Grass Roots West Hartford
- West Hartford Recycles
- The Citizen Climate Lobby
- The Connecticut Horticultural Society
- The West Hartford Land Trust
- Energize CT mobile learning experience
- Talk to a master gardener
- West Hartford Garden Club
For more information, check the website: Flower Show School
For more information, check the website: Flower Show School
Tulip Garden Tours
Horticulturist Rosemary Aldridge will lead tours of the Robert A. Prill Tulip Garden on Thursday, April 28, at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Tours are FREE and registration is not required.
