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Wednesday September 18, 2024

2024-2025 Kickoff Meeting
Annual Pot Luck Dinner and Kokedama Demo

 

Members Only

 

Please join us for our annual start-of-the-year potluck supper and enjoy a variety of favorite recipes from our garden club members. Bring your unique dish at 5:30. Potluck Dinner starts at 6:00 and the program at 7:00. Bring flowers and vegetables for centerpieces. 

Lucinda Perry will demonstrate how to create a Kokedama, the Japanese art of wrapping plants in a moss ball.  A fun way to display indoor plants with a fresh organic feel.  

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There is no hospitality committee, everyone helps with clean-up.

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Wednesday October 16, 2024

Houseplant Auction

Open to the Public​

Thise popular event returns again this year!  Come to buy, share, and enjoy the many houseplants our club members bring, each to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

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Hospitality:  Patty Wright (Lead), Alberta Valerio, Kris Archambault, Karen Piedescalzo, Lorraine Murphy, Deb Poach and Elizabeth Morin

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 
Bountiful Celebrations of the Season!​

Open to the Public

​​Sylvia Nichols, award-winning designer and club member, will demonstrate designs for the upcoming holiday season featuring seasonal materials.  Arrangements will be raffled off at the end of the program.​

 

Hospitality:  Maria Colacrai (Lead), Pat Archibald, Bernie Uluski, Kathy Adams, Lisa Cocco and Ophelia Frasier

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Wednesday January 15, 2025 (Snow Date January 22)

Grower Discussion (Wholesale/Retail)

Open to the Public

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John Casertano from Casertano Greenhouses & Farms and a local retailer join us to discuss everything you ever wanted to know about how plants make their way from seed to market!

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Hospitality:  Linda Broker (Lead), Steve Broker, Nancy Fede, Carol Lewok, Tom Lewok and Ed Pasciutti

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Wednesday February 19, 2025
Show Stopping Native Autumn Perennials 

Open to the Public

 

Join us at the Senior Center for a Zoom presentation and Q&A session by experts from the Mount Cuba Center on what they do best – native plants!  Explore the broad palette of native perennials that bring color, texture, and visual interest to the autumn garden and get great ideas for your home garden.  There is no snow date for this program because if the weather is bad everyone can log in from home.​

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Hospitality:  Barbara Masiulis (Lead), Linda Lane, Anne Gancsos, Kathy Harris, Lucinda Perry, Anupa Simpatico and Kim Block 

 

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Wednesday March 19, 2025 (Snow date March 26)

Brighten up Those Winter Blues; A Look at Great Plants for Winter Interest

Open to the Public

​It is often hard to remember that your winter landscape can be just as beautiful as a spring one.  Adam Wheeler from Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Ct will present ideas to revitalize your winter landscape and keep it looking fresh and lively.  

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Hospitality:  Paula Snedeker (Lead), Susan Dillman, Jessica Fischer, Nancy Sewitch, Tony Poitras, Deb Rutter and Agnes Urquhart

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Wednesday April 16, 2025

Terrariums and You

Co-sponsored by and held at the Cheshire Public Library

Time: 6:30 PM - Register on library website

Open to the Public

When you need nature close by, houseplants are the answer.   And if you’ve always yearned to host houseplants but failed – this lecture will come to the rescue.  Tovah Martin will demonstrate precisely how to work with glass enclosures of all types to incorporate green into your life, no matter how busy your schedule might be.

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Hospitality:  Betsy Fox (Lead), Marianne Goldberg, Linda Buckley, Maura Esposito, Sylvia Nichols and Signian McGeary

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Wednesday May 21, 2025

Beneficial Insects

Open to the Public

Katherine Dugas, an entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Insect Information Office, will present an insect talk highlighting some of the more well-known beneficial insects in our environment such as pollinators, as well as some often overlooked or misunderstood benefactors who likewise help “keep things running".

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Hospitality: Valerie Joyce (Lead), Jeanne Levasseur, Mary Helming, Rita Giannotti, Estelle Lumer, Mary Ellen Morgan and Marian Brennan.

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Wednesday June 18, 2025

Shrubs - The New Perennial and Year-end Dinner
Members Only

​Bring your unique dish at 5:30 PM. Potluck Dinner starts at 6:00 and the program at 7:00.

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Lorraine Ballato is a highly regarded Ct horticulturist, garden writer and speaker.  She will introduce us to shrubs which give color, interesting foliage and flowering with almost NO maintenance.  The Win-Win-Win plants for gardening!

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There is no hospitality committee, everyone helps with clean-up.

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