2016-Past

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Wendy Bayliss, Ann Wright-Parsons and Carolyn Pieciak

• Design: Create a mass design using plant material from your garden/yard.

• Horticulture: Any worthy specimen from your garden/yard.

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Monday, September 12

Whose Garden Is Pictured? - Jill Stahl-Tyler

This is the time to strut your stuff! Remember those photos you sent to Jill? We will play detective, trying to guess the gardener who created the garden shown in the photo. Questions/answers, comments, special considerations may all be addressed. Think of this as an “armchair garden tour.”

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Ann Wright-Parsons & Judy Wagenbach

• Design: Create crescent-shaped design using plant material from your garden/yard.

• Horticulture: Any worthy specimen from your garden.

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Monday, August 8

Annual Beach Party - Spofford Lake

Bring your bathing suit, beach towel, beach chair, beach toys, sunblock and food to share! If you own a kayak, feel free to bring that as well. This party, open to club members, is a delightful way to enjoy each other’s company and share gardening stories.

• Location: B&K Aqua Club across from Pine Grove Golf Club, Spofford Lake, N.H.

• Time: 4:00 p.m. to dark (arrange your own car pool)

• Hostesses: Carlene McCarty & Carolyn Pieciak

• RSVP to Carlene McCarty, by August 1.

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Monday, July 11

Annual Garden Tours (rain or shine)

Our garden tours are a highlight of the program year. These tours, which are open to BFA & GC members only, allow us to ramble through gardens soaking up the beauty while being able to ask questions of the gardener and to share stories.

This year we will be visiting the gardens of (in this order): 1-Karen Davis, 2-Mary Rivers, and 3-Lynn Kuralt at her Dummerston home (not the Crosby House).

WEATHER: overcast/drizzle will NOT stop the tours ... Thunderstorms will.

Refreshments will be served at Lynn’s home on Rice Farm Road in Dummerston. Directions will be available the day of the tour.

• Time: Tour starts at 5:30 p.m.

• Meet at 5:15 p.m. at Green Mountain Chapel to carpool

• Hostesses: Hostesses: Wendy Bayliss & Lynn Billington

• Please RSVP to __________, by July 3. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Monday, June 13

More than Dirt - Cassie Freese

Club member Cassie Freese will present a program that will help us understand that gardening requires soil, which is more than dirt.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Frankie Knibb & Sandy McCauley

• Design: Create an equilateral/vertical design using plant material from your garden/yard.

• Horticulture: Any worthy specimen from your garden/yard.

• SPECIAL SPRING, SUMMER, FALL ASSIGNMENT: Take photos of your garden all season long and forward them to Jill Stahl-Tyler to use in her presentation at the September meeting. Who knows, our photographs might be so successful that we will make note cards as a fundraiser!

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Monday, May 9

Amazing Azaleas - Doug Switzer

Azaleas are amazing additions to any garden, but they seem to have an especially magical quality in Vermont after a long winter of snow and cold. Azalea enthusiast Doug Switzer will share his knowledge and experiences with us so that we too can enhance our gardens with these lovely plants.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Mary Rivers & Anne Duzinski

• Activity: Layering woody plants for propagation

• Design: An arrangement to welcome summer, using flowers and/or branches from your yard---not to exceed 18" overall.

• Horticulture: Flowers and blooming shrubs and branches from your yard.

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Thursday, May 19 - 6pm-8pm

Sip & Art <-- Click to get the Fund Raiser details!

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Monday, April 11

Brattleboro Floral Arts & Garden Club - Annual Meeting

Dinner and meeting at the beautiful Chesterfield Inn. Please join us for a wonderful evening of delicious food and wonderful conversation with the garden club community.

• Location: The Chesterfield Inn

• Time: 5:30 p.m. cocktail hour

• 6:30 dinner

• Cost: $25

• Presenter: Jill Stahl-Tyler "One Beautiful Thing Each Day"

• Jill will share the results of her decision last year

• to find and record one beautiful thing each day.

• Fundraising Updates: Carlene McCarty & Judy Wagenbach

• Installation of Officers: Past President Thera Hindmarsh

• Coordinators: Carlene McCarty, Judy Wagenbach, & Grace Amidon

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Monday, March 14

Unique Houseplants - Sally Winchester, Windham Flowers

For many gardeners, March is the month that gives them itchy fingers…waiting to go outside and get busy. Or, some gardeners want to escape to Florida. Help is on the way! Sally will help us escape the March mud by teaching us about unique/unusual and exciting houseplants. Not only will Sally have samples for us to see, she will instruct us about their care. As a bonus, the plants will be available for purchase at the close of the program.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Alice Stockwell & Frankie Gibson

• Design: Use your imagination and incorporate a house plant, dried material, and evergreen foliage in an arrangement of your choice

• Horticulture: Any worthy specimen--house plant, shrub, or maybe an early spring bloom!

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No January or February Meetings

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