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NOVEMBER 9, Thursday, 12:00 noon
“Holiday Decorations from Nature’s Bounty”
Speaker: Carol King Platt
Former editor at House & Garden Magazine
Carol, who has written prolifically about gardening over the years, will show us how to create beautiful holiday decor without breaking the bank.
OPEN MEETING, Guest donation $10.00
Program: Heidi Goldstein
Flower arrangement: Pat Duncan
Tea sandwiches, cookies and beverages will be served.
Join us this Fall at Westmoor Park and learn how to transform your backyard into a living, sustainable habitat! Bring the whole family!
When: November 12, Sunday, 2:00-3:30pm
Where: Westmoor Park, 119 Flagg Rd.
How to create a backyard habitat:
- What is a sustainable backyard habitat and why is it important?
- Play pollinator BINGO and learn about all the plants and insects we need for a healthy food web
- Learn planting and growing tips for a healthy backyard habitat. Hint: leave the leaves and save ‘clean-up’ for indoors!
- Dress for weather as our learning will take us outside for hands-on exploration
Hosted by: The Sustainable Land Care Working Group (SLCWG), part of the new Sustainable West Hartford Commission, offering many combined years of experience in gardening with native plants, habitat restoration, organic lawn care and more.
Board members are welcome to join us if interested or have ideas for programs in 2024-2025.
Several Civic Projects members will be sorting and packaging seeds for the Seed Library in the Story Room on the Children’s Level of the Noah Webster Library. Please let me know if you would like to join us for all or part of the time.
Many thanks.
Beth Ann Loveland Sennett
Nature’s Best Hope: book discussion
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Join us for a discussion of Nature’s Best Hope, with special guest appearances by industry experts, as well as time to share your personal Homegrown National Park success stories.
Please join the Floral Design Committee’s
Fall Arranging Workshop
Thursday, November 16, 2023 – 2pm – 3:30
Noah Webster House, 227 S Main St, West Hartford
Please bring your own container, greens or other fall add in’s. FD committee will supply flowers.
Sign-up sheet will be passed around at the General Meeting on
Thursday, November 8th
If you want to reserve your space before hand
Email Sharon to be put on the list – sjmulvey@gmail.com
Hope to see many of you soon, Eva, Nancy and Sharon
Please note that this program is virtual, through Zoom.
This fall, learn how to transform your backyard (of any size!) into a living, breathing healthy habitat for you, your family, and your pets – hint, leave the leaves! Or maybe you just want to find better, low-maintenance ways to take care of your lawn and support the monarchs. Did you know that you can take action against climate change just by changing your mowing habits? We are the Sustainable Land Care Working Group, part of the new Sustainable West Hartford Commission, and we have many combined years as Master Gardeners (UCONN Extension program) with practical experience in habitat restoration, pollinator/rain gardens, native plant garden design, organic lawn care, composting, invasive species identification, meadows and more. We would love to answer your questions and also learn more about how we can best support all of West Hartford in building a sustainable and just community.
A short presentation will include:
1. What is the new Sustainable West Hartford Commission?
2. What does a Sustainable backyard look like and why is it important?
3. Learn about pollinators and all of the insects we need for a healthy food web.
4. Best tips for a healthy yard.
5. How to connect – a list of our favorite resources.
Designing in Challenging Situations: Plants and Techniques that Deliver
With Ian Caton on Thursday, November 16 at 7:00 pm on Zoom – or join us in person at the Elmwood Community Center
(1106 New Britain Ave., West Hartford but set your GPS for Burgoyne Street, West Hartford)
Learn how plants behave, the habitats they come from, and how they can be utilized to truly create a low-maintenance landscape. Ian Caton will also highlight a suite of plants that he has found fit well into most any difficult situation.
Ian Caton has been the owner/operator of Wood Thrush Native Plant Nursery (formerly Enchanters Garden) in Floyd, Virginia, since March of 2013. Wood Thrush Native Plants is a nursery specializing in native plants of the Appalachian region including West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and North Carolina. One of the focuses of the nursery is the introduction of new and rare native plants which are little known or underappreciated in the nursery trade.
Previously Mr. Caton had been an employee of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates (a landscape firm specializing in the use and promotion of native plants in landscaping) since 2001. He has an ongoing relationship with the firm and its educational arm: “The New Directions in the Landscape (NDAL)” program.
Tonight is our Potluck Dinner! Come early (6:00 pm) and bring a dis to share. Enjoy a meal and some conversation with fellow members.
Click here to join us via Zoom
- Meeting ID: 861 0318 1067
- Passcode: 412326
- Or call in to join us on the phone: 646-558-8656 (the meeting ID and the passcode are the same for phone calls.)
- Copy and paste this web address if clicking the link doesn’t work for you: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86103181067?pwd=UERXMitXMmxSSmRrTTVZOElKeHZ2dz09
When you link to the meeting, please choose to not appear on screen. Also, please mute your phone/computer microphone. Ian’s presentation is what will be visible and heard. His talk will both be followed by a question & answer session. Questions must be typed in and the moderator will present the questions to Ian for all to hear. Log in anytime between 6:45-7:00 pm, and you will be let in from the Zoom ‘waiting room’ when the presentation is about to start, at 7:00 pm.
If you can’t join us Thursday, not to worry. Ian’s talk will be recorded and the link will be sent to you the following week. This is just one of the many features of membership – we thank you for supporting our efforts.
Enjoy the evening!
~Mary Anna