For information on dates and times, please check their website at Wadsworth Atheneum.
Two people are needed. You will meet at 1:15 pm to set up and then work with the patients from 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm. Please contact Marj if interested in helping.
Home for the Holidays, Garden Club Style – a fun holiday celebration featuring clubs across the Americas decorating in local style and flavor. Pre-registration is on the NGC website. Space is limited to 500 but all workshops are recorded and posted on the Member Resources page. These programs are free of charge. The video and information from the first program on November 8th can be found on their website under Member Resource Library.
Please bring your WHGC 2021-2022 Yearbook and your cell phone.
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.
Join us Thursday for this virtual presentation!
Shall We Dance?
Clematis as the Ultimate Garden Companion
with Linda Beutler
| FREE for members, $10 non member donation
Learn all about cold weather Clematis and how to marry them with shrubs, trees, and more from Linda Beutler. She is the first curator of the world renowned Rogerson Clematis Collection, a position she she began in July, 2007). Linda’s love of gardening began at the age of 3 when she harvested strawberries with her grandfather. Her home garden in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon reflects her garden passions, including old garden roses, herbaceous perennials and shrubs for cutting, and her 200 favorite Clematis. Linda has been an adjunct instructor of horticulture at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, OR since 1996. She is the Immediate Past President of the International Clematis Society, the author of Timber Press’ Gardening with Clematis (2004), Garden to Vase (2007), and Plant Lovers Guide to Clematis (2016), and has published some fictional “variations” on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, in which she plants herself in the author’s novel, bringing her love of all things blooming with her! Click here to join us via Zoom. · Meeting ID: 848 2525 3920 · Passcode: 312551 · 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. Adam’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 Adam 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. Enjoy the presentation! We’ll resend the link on Thursday afternoon. ~Mary Anna
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Connecticut Horticultural Society presents:
Meetings will be via Zoom if we cannot meet in person.
Presider – Ann Schoeninger
You are welcome to arrive at Billie’s home at 10:00 AM, find a seat and get settled as the Board meeting will begin promptly at 10:30 AM. We plan to adjourn by noon.
As a reminder, masks are required to be worn by everyone. No food will be served.
Please RSVP your attendance plans to Billie if you have not done so. Her phone number is 860-841-2457 and her email is billie.reese@cbmoves.com
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.
“Gardening in Difficult Locations: Site Preparation for Landscape Transformation”
Speaker: Kathleen Connolly
Landscape Designer
Kathy is a landscape designer, writer, reporter, and speaker who emphasizes earth-friendly designs, native plants, and low-impact land care techniques.
OPEN MEETING, Guest donation $10.00
Presider: Ann Schoeninger
Program: Beth Ann L. Sennett
Flower arrangement: Nancy Lemega-Watt