These handmade, beautifully decorated tabletop boxwood trees will grace your home throughout the holiday season. Consider grouping them on an entryway table, console table, or just about anywhere to add a little holiday magic to your home. They also make wonderful hostess and holiday gifts!
These handmade, beautifully decorated tabletop boxwood trees will grace your home throughout the holiday season. Consider grouping them on an entryway table, console table, or just about anywhere to add a little holiday magic to your home. They also make wonderful hostess and holiday gifts!
The New Canaan Garden Club presents Holiday Shopping Days at J. McLaughlin and Elm Street Books! Start your holiday shopping early and a percentage of your purchases will be donated to NCGC. Then join us for happy hour at Sip, Shop & Celebrate on Thursday, November 11th from 5pm to 7pm. Click here for details.
Several NCGC members attended Wave Hill’s 2021 Gardeners’ Party on Thursday, September 30th to celebrate Louis Bauer. For nearly two decades, Louis has dedicated himself to Wave Hill, first arriving in 1994 to work under Marco Polo Stufano, and returning in 2014 as Director of Horticulture. He epitomizes the distinctive style of gardening Wave Hill is known for—intimate, adventurous and plants first! Under Louis’ inspired leadership, Wave Hill remains at the forefront of American horticulture; his impact will last long into the future.
From the 2020 Zone II Meeting and Flower Show Co-Chairs,
We are thrilled to share the schedule for Charter Oak, the Garden Club of America Zone II Meeting and Flower Show to be held at The Goodwin in Hartford, June 14-15, 2022! The event heralds Connecticut’s iconic tree, our Charter Oak, and we look forward to seeing you to Hartford in June.
The NCGC kicked off the 2021/22 season on September 8th with their annual opening luncheon at Waveny House. Almost a dozen members provided gorgeous and imaginative centerpieces inspired by a variety of adult and children’s books. Our Floral Design Committee is already very busy this fall, touring the Hortulus Flower Show in Greenwich and hosting their own workshop on how to “Take out the Fear and Put in the Fun into Entering Flower Shows.”
You may be aware that there are delays in purchasing bulbs this year and often items are sold out. We want to remind you to purchase your bulbs as soon as possible, especially if you plan to attend our November bulb forcing workshop and our January “Genius in a Bulb” sweeps. The NCGC has a link to Brent & Becky’s in the October Newsletter. Don’t forget to use Brent and Becky’s site when ordering your bulbs as NCGC gets a portion of all sales. Click here, select New Canaan GC under list of organizations and you will be redirected to their main site.
Our Chew Crew left Irwin Park this morning, Tuesday, August 17th. During their regular site visit, our farmers saw that there was not enough vegetation left for the goats to eat. Since May, they have devoured our weeds daily.
The Nominating Committee is pleased to present the proposed slate for 2021-2022 that will be voted on by the NCGC membership at our Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon on June 16th.
On May 12th, our New Canaan Garden Club Goat Initiative Project (representing all of Zone II in competition at the GCA’s virtual Annual Meeting Flower Show called “Around the Green” held May 11-12, 2021) was awarded First Place AND Best In Show in the 12 Zones’ video exhibition, “Education in Conservation.”
Click here to enjoy this two-minute video prepared by NCGC Conservation Co-Chairs Alice Wyman and Wendy Dewey.