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More information will be available soon.

This biennial event is the main fundraiser for the club and helps to fund other programs that benefit our community. More information will be posted as it comes available. Susan Grew srider56@comcast.net 860 995-5925 and Cecily Vasington cecily.vasington@gmail.com 860 521-8616

This is the Old Board/New Board luncheon.  You are welcome to arrive at Sharon’s home at 10:00 am, find a seat and get settled as the Board meeting will begin promptly at 10:30 am.

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…

SAVE THE DATE! The West Hartford Garden Club will be installing a pollinator garden around the Conny the Whale Tail when it is installed on a berm opposite its former location at the Children’s Museum on Trout Brook Drive. Our friends at Cetacean Society International have invited us to join…

Please remember to bring your favorite gardening tools for weeding and pruning. If it is raining on your scheduled day, the rain date will be the next day.

Elizabeth Park History Tour Join Kathy Kraczkowsky and Lisa Silvestri for a history tour through Elizabeth Par The Tour is FREE and begins at the Flagpole in front of the green Cottage at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5th.

We will be meeting to create centerpieces for the June Annual Meeting.

JUNE 6, Thursday, 12:00 noon Annual Meeting, Luncheon, Election of New Officers We gather for to celebrate another year of accomplishments by the West Hartford Garden Club. This will be a catered luncheon. CLOSED MEETING, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED LUNCHEON COST: TBD Program: Rachael Desmond Flower arrangements: Floral Design Committee  

Rain date will be June 13. Join us for a special Field Trip on Tuesday, June 11 (rain date June 13). We’ll carpool from West Hartford at 9:00 a.m. for the estimated one-hour drive. We will first visit the garden of WHGC club member Susan Fellman at 45 Ivy Mountain…

Civic Projects Committee’s year-end meeting.

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…

Please remember to bring your favorite gardening tools for weeding and pruning. If it is raining on your scheduled day, the rain date will be the next day.

Rose Garden Tour with Rosarian Stephen Scanniello Join Rosarian Stephen Scanniello for rose garden tours on June Wednesday, June 19, at 10 am and 1 pm. The Helen S Kaman Rose Garden is the oldest public rose garden in the United States and the third-largest Rose Garden in the country.…

Click here for the accompanying website to the presentation.   Join Sam Hoadley, the Manager of Horticultural Research at Mt. Cuba Center, as he highlights knockout native species and cultivars from their trials. Top performers and favorites of Monarda, Phlox, Helenium, Echinacea, wild hydrangea, Carex, and Vernonia represent some of…

Join us for a Fairfield County Nursery Tour June 24 • 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Take the day, carpool with friends, and enjoy a tour of three of Fairfield County’s finest nurseries. We’ll start at Oliver Nurseries (1159 Bronson Rd., Fairfield), at 9:30 am, to explore and enjoy the exquisitely landscaped grounds of…

Policy Changes June 2024 The Strategic Planning Committee and the Executive Board met this week to come up with a plan to help alleviate some Membership issues. We have two policy changes to bring to the Board for a vote in order to implement them.  Our Bylaws state that any…

Tree Tour with Arborist John Kehoe Arborist John Kehoe will lead an informative Tree Tour through Elizabeth Park (an accredited Level I Arboretum) on Wednesday, June 26 at 10 a.m. John Kehoe is the former City Forester for the City of Hartford and his experience with tree care and maintenance…

We hope that some of you may want to join us at Wojan’s Woods, a land trust property at the end of Davenport Road, to plant fern plugs. The restoration of this little urban woods is a project our club has supported in collaboration with the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy,…