Conservation Corner: Backyard Critters and Mushrooms
Susan Bergen continues to delight and educate us with her conservation news.
Here are her latest topics:
Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner?
Fungus Amoung Us
News
Annual Report on the Archives of American Gardens
Click here to below to download the 2015 Annual Report of the Archives of American Gardens. It will remind you of the many ways in which the Garden History & Design Committee has a critical and lasting effect on AAG. The GHD Committee has helped sustain the Archives since its inception in 1987 and educated clubs about the importance of documenting gardens for the GCA collection.
Conservation Corner: Asking More of Our Gardens
Susan Bergen has once again enlightened us with her latest Conservation exhibit based on Doug Tallamy’s new book The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden.
Click here to discover how you too can raise the bar on your landscape!
Irwin Park Wildflower Meadow
Enjoy Irwin Park’s latest addition! Take a walk and see the wildflower meadow bursting with baby’s breath, California and Shirley poppies, bachelor’s buttons and wallflowers. Photos courtesy of Susan Bergen.
2015 Proposed Changes to Constitution and Standing Rules
Click on the link below to view the 2015 proposed changes to the NCGC Constitution and Standing Rules. The revisions have been approved by the Board and will be voted on by the entire membership at the June meeting. Please read and review them before the vote – the changes are referenced in blue and noted in the righthand column.
Proposed Changes to Constitution
Proposed Changes to Standing Rules
Conservation Corner: Butterflies in our Garden
Susan Bergen’s Conservation Corner at March’s monthly meeting featured butterflies that are common to southwestern Connecticut. They live in similar habitats but have different needs in terms of host and nectar plants. Some are active in early spring. Others make an appearance later in the summer. Most spend the winter right in our gardens as caterpillars or chrysalids. They are beautiful and fascinating.
Take a look . . . how many different kinds will you see in your garden this season?
Conservation Corner: The Garden In Winter
Susan Bergen’s conservation exhibit from January’s meeting titled “The Garden in Winter” will be on display at the New Canaan Library the week of February 15th. Special thanks to Susan for sharing her knowledge and appreciation of our snow-covered gardens — they may be here to stay!
Leave Leaves Alone
Mulching leaves in place helps your lawn and planting beds by feeding the soil — and saves time, effort, and money!
Click here to see how easy it is, or ask your land care professional.
Conservation Corner: Irwin Park Meadows
Last month’s Conservation Corner presented the meadows at Irwin Park and how they offer a unique habitat in our wooded suburban town. The meadows at Irwin are full of perennial and annual wildflowers, vines, shrubs and mature trees which are home to bees, butterflies, birds, reptiles and mammals. The display featured late summer and fall blooming plants and how they benefit wildlife.
Conservation Corner: Be Kind To Pollinators
At our annual meeting in June, our Conservation committee prepared a three-fold display with information on bees, butterflies and hummingbirds; native plants; and fruits and vegetable dependent on bees for pollination. The presentation was fabulous and well-received by all — in fact, the display was shared with the Stamford Garden Center in early September. The committee also hopes to exhibit it at the New Canaan Nature Center on Earth Day next April.
Display by Conservation committee members Susan Bergen, Barb Schmidt and Alice Runnette.
Click here to view the display