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Wednesday September 17, 2025

2024-2025 Kickoff Meeting
Annual Pot Luck Dinner 

 

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. 

 

No presentation tonight - instead we'll break down into committee groups to discuss plans for the 2025-26 year, then come back together and share what we talked about.
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There is no hospitality committee, everyone helps with clean-up.

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Wednesday October 15, 2025

Plant Communication:  Let's Listen In
Margery Winters

Open to the Public​

Scientists are learning more about how plants communicate with each other. Learn how they get their messages to each other and what they are saying!

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Hospitality:  Lucinda Perry (Lead), Kris Archambault, Marian Brennan, Mary Horan, Elizabeth Morin, Agnes Urquhart

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Wednesday November 19, 2025

Practical Ways to Improve Your Property for Wildlife

Peter Picone​

Open to the Public

Plants make a difference for wildlife and are the foundation of habitat. Learn what plants provide songbirds, beneficial insects, and other creatures with seasonal food and cover.

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Hospitality:  Karen Piedescalzo (Lead), Kim Block, Maria Colacrai, Val Joyce, Bernie Uluski, Alberta Valerio

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Wednesday January 21, 2026 (Snow Date January 28)

Wildflower Folklore
 Ken Elkins

Open to the Public

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Learn to identify different wildflowers, their characteristics, habitats, and blooming seasons, as well as the rich history, mythology, and cultural significance surrounding various wildflowers.

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Hospitality:  Jessica Fischer (Lead), Pat Archibald, Linda Broker, Steve Broker, Betsy Fox, Will Nelson, Sylvia Nichols

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Wednesday February 18, 2026 (Snow Date February 25) 
Container Gardening Indoors and Out

Gregory Bugbee

Open to the Public

Learn about choosing the right plants and potting soils for the right pots, watering and fertilizing techniques, and how to start plants from seeds and cuttings.​

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Hospitality:  Nancy Sewitch (Lead), Jeanne LeVasseur, Carol Lewoc, Tom Lewoc, Deb Rutter, Anupa Simpatico, Pattie Wright  

 

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Wednesday March 18, 2026 (Snow date March 19)

Sharing the Joy of Spring

Sylvia Nichols

Members Only

Club member Sylvia Nichols will demonstrate how to create a spring-themed floral design in a small container. Each member will make two arrangements, one to keep and one to brighten a community member’s day. Members should bring a container for the design they will bring home; all other materials will be provided.

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Hospitality:  Paula Snedeker (Lead), Linda Buckley, Susan Dillman, Anne Gancsos, Marianne Goldberg, Linda Lane, Barbara Masiulis​

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Wednesday April 15, 2026

Kokedama Workshop

Tony Poitras

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Club member Tony Poitras will instruct us in making Kokedama. Literally translated as "moss ball," this is a Japanese gardening technique where plants are grown in a ball of soil covered with moss and often bound with string.

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​Hospitality:  Kathy Harris (Lead), Nancy Fede, Opheila Frazier, Mary Ellen Morgan, Ed Pasciutti, Lucinda Perry, Deb Poach, Rachel Ward

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Wednesday May 20, 2025

Moon Gardening

Donna Katsuranis

Open to the Public

Learn about lunar gardening: how the moon affects the earth and its inhabitants; planting vegetables by the moon's phases; and creating an ornamental moon garden.

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Hospitality: Joan Shapiro (Lead), Kathy Adams, Jan Edwards, Rita Giannotti, Lorraine Murphy, Tony Poitras

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Wednesday June 17, 2026

Year-end Dinner and Greenhouse Presentation
Members Only

​Bring your unique dish at 5:30 PM.  Scholarships, community grants, and club awards will be presented, followed by a potluck dinner and our final program of the season, a presentation about the greenhouse at Humiston School by Tom Lewoc 

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

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