MARCH/APRIL 2025 NEWSLETTER
NEWS YOU CAN USE - IF YOU CHOOSE
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NEWS YOU CAN USE - IF YOU CHOOSE
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GARDEN CLUB NEWS
The Membership Committee is delighted to announce the names of five new members of the Garden Club:
Deirdre (Dee) Brennan
Jane Costello
Jeanne Kiernan
Sally McGovern
Linda Nuzzo
Please welcome them and introduce yourself when you see them at the Business Meetings or other activities.
Photographs will be uploaded to the online Member Photo Directory soon.
Click here to see pictures from the Joint Meeting with the Essex Land Trust, the Horticulture Field Trip to the Connecticut Flower Show and the terrific Horticulture Workshop on Line Mass Flower Arranging with Club Members Sheila Gleason and Jane Dickinson.
Click here to see pictures from making Hypertufa planters for May Market Garden Gifts.
Thanks to Ann Kloter and Dagmar Miller for representing the Essex Garden Club at the recent Volunteer Expo at the Essex Library.
The Membership Committee is delighted to announce the names of five new members of the Garden Club:
Deirdre (Dee) Brennan
Jane Costello
Jeanne Kiernan
Sally McGovern
Linda Nuzzo
Please welcome them and introduce yourself when you see them at the Business Meetings or other activities.
Photographs will be uploaded to the online Member Photo Directory soon.
Click here to see pictures from the Joint Meeting with the Essex Land Trust, the Horticulture Field Trip to the Connecticut Flower Show and the terrific Horticulture Workshop on Line Mass Flower Arranging with Club Members Sheila Gleason and Jane Dickinson.
Click here to see pictures from making Hypertufa planters for May Market Garden Gifts.
Thanks to Ann Kloter and Dagmar Miller for representing the Essex Garden Club at the recent Volunteer Expo at the Essex Library.
GARDEN CLUB ACTIVITIES
Saturday, March 22: Essex Go Bragh Parade. Meet at Town Hall at 11:00 am. Don't forget to wear your Garden Club hats and aprons.
Monday, April 7: 1:00 pm - Business Meeting at Town Hall Auditorium
Horticulture Spotlight: Welcome Spring - Arrangements using flowers grown from bulbs and early spring foliage or branches
Program: Jana Milbocker, author and owner, The Enchanted Gardens; "The Artist's Garden in the Northeast"
Wednesday, April 9: 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Spring Clean Up (Active Member Required Activity) (Lead Dagmar Miller)
Thursday, April 10: 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Rain date for Spring Clean Up
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Monday, April 14: 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Garlic Salt Production Session 1 (John Winthrop Jr High School)
Monday, April 14: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Garlic Salt Production Session 2 (John Winthrop Jr High School)
Tuesday, April 15: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Garlic Salt Production Session 3 (John Winthrop Jr High School)
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Monday - Friday, April 21 - 25: 9:00 - 11:00 am - May Market Digs (note Divide & Pot can immediately follow digs if desired)
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Monday - Friday, April 21 - 25: 11:00 am-2:00 pm - Divide and Pot
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Monday/Tuesday, April 28/29: 9:00 am-2:00 pm - May Market Digs/Divide and Pot RAIN DATES
Saturday, March 22: Essex Go Bragh Parade. Meet at Town Hall at 11:00 am. Don't forget to wear your Garden Club hats and aprons.
Monday, April 7: 1:00 pm - Business Meeting at Town Hall Auditorium
Horticulture Spotlight: Welcome Spring - Arrangements using flowers grown from bulbs and early spring foliage or branches
Program: Jana Milbocker, author and owner, The Enchanted Gardens; "The Artist's Garden in the Northeast"
Wednesday, April 9: 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Spring Clean Up (Active Member Required Activity) (Lead Dagmar Miller)
Thursday, April 10: 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Rain date for Spring Clean Up
Sign up via VSP
Monday, April 14: 9:00 am - 11:00 am - Garlic Salt Production Session 1 (John Winthrop Jr High School)
Monday, April 14: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Garlic Salt Production Session 2 (John Winthrop Jr High School)
Tuesday, April 15: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Garlic Salt Production Session 3 (John Winthrop Jr High School)
Sign up via VSP
Monday - Friday, April 21 - 25: 9:00 - 11:00 am - May Market Digs (note Divide & Pot can immediately follow digs if desired)
Sign up via VSP
Monday - Friday, April 21 - 25: 11:00 am-2:00 pm - Divide and Pot
Sign up via VSP
Monday/Tuesday, April 28/29: 9:00 am-2:00 pm - May Market Digs/Divide and Pot RAIN DATES
MAY MARKET
Click here to be taken to the May Market page on the website, listing the dates for all the activities related to May Market plus the Leads and Co-Leads
MAY MARKET REQUESTS
In an effort to keep expenses for May Market as low as possible, the Club is asking members to donate pots which can be used for Members Plants. These can be brought to the next business meeting or deposited (thrown over the fence) into the corral at Cross Lots.
The Community Plant Digs Leads are still looking for locations for digs, if you or a neighbor have plants which could be harvested for Members Plants, please contact Deb Carreau, Mara Johnson or Patti Pickering.
Both Boutique and Fashion Accessories are looking for donations for May Market. Boutique: higher end jewelry, china, paintings. Fashion Accessories: jewelry, handbags and scarves.
Click here to be taken to the May Market page on the website, listing the dates for all the activities related to May Market plus the Leads and Co-Leads
MAY MARKET REQUESTS
In an effort to keep expenses for May Market as low as possible, the Club is asking members to donate pots which can be used for Members Plants. These can be brought to the next business meeting or deposited (thrown over the fence) into the corral at Cross Lots.
The Community Plant Digs Leads are still looking for locations for digs, if you or a neighbor have plants which could be harvested for Members Plants, please contact Deb Carreau, Mara Johnson or Patti Pickering.
Both Boutique and Fashion Accessories are looking for donations for May Market. Boutique: higher end jewelry, china, paintings. Fashion Accessories: jewelry, handbags and scarves.
OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO GARDENERS
New Plant Introductions from Acer Gardens
Now thru March 30: Kintsugi in the New World paintings by artist Thuan Vu, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London - Spectacular flower paintings
Now thru April 27: New York Botanical Gardens Orchid Show "Mexican Modernism"
May 17 and September 13: Garden Conservancy Open House at Sleepy Cat Gardens in Greenwich, CT
Beginning Thursday, June 12: The Blue Garden, Newport, RI. Open on Thursdays with reservations
Friday - Sunday, June 27-29: Secret Gardens Tour, Newport, RI.
New Plant Introductions from Acer Gardens
Now thru March 30: Kintsugi in the New World paintings by artist Thuan Vu, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London - Spectacular flower paintings
Now thru April 27: New York Botanical Gardens Orchid Show "Mexican Modernism"
May 17 and September 13: Garden Conservancy Open House at Sleepy Cat Gardens in Greenwich, CT
Beginning Thursday, June 12: The Blue Garden, Newport, RI. Open on Thursdays with reservations
Friday - Sunday, June 27-29: Secret Gardens Tour, Newport, RI.
A Little Gardening Humor:
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." -- Doug Larson
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." -- Doug Larson