Please remember to bring your gardening tools.
If you are unable to work on your signup date, please try to find a replacement and let us know so that we can reschedule you.
Susan Grew at srider56@comcast.net or Maureen Gould at mcgould89@comcast.net.
You can bring seeds to the workshop or drop them off at the library’s info desk any time during business hours.
Homegrown National Park: Virtual Lecture with
Doug Tallamy
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7pm
Our parks, preserves, and remaining wildlands – no matter how grand in scale – are too small and separated from one another to sustain the native trees, plants, insects and animals on which our ecosystems depend. We can fix this problem by practicing conservation outside of wildlands. Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park: a national challenge to create diverse ecosystems in our yards, communities, and surrounding lands by reducing lawn, planting native, and removing invasives. We are at a critical point where we are losing so many native plant and animal species that our natural life support is in jeopardy. If many people make small changes, we can restore healthy ecological networks.
Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 111 research publications and has taught insect-related courses for 42 years.
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Registration for the Awards Luncheon will open on September 1. Visit https://ctgardenclubs.org/events-overview/awards-meeting/ for details. NOTE: Registration will be online only. There will be NO mail-in registration this year. Registration begins at 9 am. – Meeting commences at 10 am. Come early and enjoy coffee and tea, browse vendor booths, purchase drawing tickets. |
Freshly cut dahlias from the Connecticut Dahlia Society’s Display Garden will be available for purchase at the Garmany Visitor Center. CASH ONLY
The Housing Authority has finished planting the shrubs our club donated, and now it is our turn to step up and plant the perennial flower gardens we promised.
We will meet this Saturday, October 28, at 10 am at Elm Grove Housing on Grove Street in Elmwood. We will plant flowers and bulbs—no shrubs.
Please share some of the flowers from your garden.
Suggestions:
Daylilies, Blackeyed Susans, Sedum, Lily of the Valley, Evening Primrose, Astilbe, Daisies
If you can’t attend the planting on Saturday, you can leave your plants on the side lawn of my house, 25 Craigmoor Road anytime.
Please let me know who is coming and what plants you are donating so I can plan accordingly. Thank you for your support.
This is a property of Traprock Ridge Land Trust (which West Hartford Land Trust joined). WHGC and the Land Trust work together on TREX Community soft plastic recycling program and other local initiatives such as Spicebush.
Please plan to give us at least one hour of your time during the morning. Please bring your favorite tools for weeding and pruning. A co-chair will arrive at the garden by 8:30 a.m.
PARKING: Parking will be in the paved lot next to the Amos Bull House on South Prospect Street. We encourage you to carpool as space is limited.
We plan to work if the rain is light. If it is pouring, you will get a cancellation call by 8:00 a.m.
• If you are unable to work on your signup date, please let me know so that we can reschedule you and help you find a replacement for your shift.
• Kindly confirm that you have received this message, by replying to ljaldrich@hotmail.com or text 860-227-2730.
Thank you for helping to make the Butler McCook garden such a treasure for the greater Hartford region.
Best regards,
Linda Aldrich, Co-Chair, 860 227-2730
Steve Kovack, Co-Chair, 860 521-6563
Invasive Plant Removal Party
Spicebush Swamp Park, Mountain Rd.
West Hartford
November 4, 2023
9 am – 12 pm
Message from:
Beth Ann Loveland Sennett
Co-Chair, Civic Projects
West Hartford Garden Club
860-729-4150
whgccivicproj@gmail.com
Please mark your calendars for Saturday, November 23, 2023, 9 am to 12 noon for our fall invasive plant removal party at Spicebush Swamp Park, Mountain Road in West Hartford, CT. HEAVY RAIN and/or WIND cancels.
If you are interested, please text, email, or call me at 860-729-4150/ whgccivicproj@gmail.com, so that I can plan accordingly. I will have handouts, and guided instruction will be provided.
Warning: the terrain is uneven and soggy in places, making it a poor choice for individuals who have mobility difficulties.
Plan to park in the small lot on Mountain Road, or across Mountain Road on Glocester Lane. Plan to arrive at 9 am for instructions. Please apply sun block and insect repellent. If possible, bring snippers, clippers, or long-handled loppers, and a water bottle. Please wear a hat, long pants with socks pulled up over them (ticks are about), and a long-sleeved shirt. Wear boots on spring, fall, and winter workdays. You may want to wear them in summer as well – we’ll likely be removing invasives from the banks of streams and pond. We hope to have a weed wrench for stumps. I will bring a hand saw, wheelbarrow, and tarp. Gloves that resist thorns are best (there’s lots of multiflora rose). If you are also able to bring a wheelbarrow or tarp along, it might come in handy – we have to cart the debris back to the parking lot. I’ll also bring a trash bag for garbage, if any.
This Saturday, we will focus on the invasives along the streams – mostly pulling small specimens and cutting large specimens of Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), pull or cut Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora), and pull or cut Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii).
NOTE: This project has been approved for CT Master