2019-Past

November 11, 2019 (Veterans Day) - Meeting

Create your own Fall/Thanksgiving Table Arrangement

An annual, favorite activity for us all. Be sure to bring your clippers, floral wire, and gloves. Florist foam, flowers & greens, and some decorative items & candles will be available. Bringing items from your fall garden to share would be great! Please make reservations ahead so we have enough supplies! At this meeting, any guests you bring are requested to donate $10 for their arrangement.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

  • Hostesses: Carlene Mc and Judy W.

• Horticulture/ Design: Bring a specimen from your garden or woods to use in your fall arrangement

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October 14, 2019 (Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day) - Meeting

Annual Souper Supper at the Crosby House https://www.crosbyhouse.com

Putting your Garden to Bed

Bring your own table setting (Placemat, flatware, plate, soup bowl, cup & saucer, water glass) and arrangement. Also, bring along at least one thing you do in your garden to put it to bed for the winter season. Let's compare notes!

• Location: Crosby House on 175 Western Ave, Brattleboro, VT

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Pot Luck

• Horticulture/ Design: Bring your own arrangement for your place setting!

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September 9, 2019 - Meeting

BULBS, CORMS, TUBERS, AND RHIZOMES (aka GEOPHYTES) by Mary Heninger

Join us for a review of these amazing plant structures. Mary Heninger will show us how they differ

from one another, how to plant, when to plant, how to keep them going for years, and how to protect them.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

  • Hostesses: Libby Lafland and Bonnie

• Horticulture/ Design: Bring a terrarium or planter using mosses.

September (date tbd)

Hawk Watch Walk

Contact: Frankie Knibb frankieknibb@gmail.com

Walk up Putney Mountain with Frankie Knibb looking for mosses along the way. Bring a book on mosses so we can identify what we see. At the summit, a hawk watcher will give a brief description of what we do in tracking the hawk migration each year. The views are spectacular! Wear hiking boots or sturdy shoes to protect your ankles and carry some water and a snack.

Note: the last section to the summit is steep. It's a mountain!

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August 12, 2019 - Meeting

Teacup Arrangements at Holton Home

On this special evening, we will meet in the activities room at Holton Home. Each member is encouraged to bring along a young friend or family member aged 8 or up to work with the residents creating a fresh flower arrangement in a teacup. The finished arrangements will be placed on the dining room tables and in residents' rooms. If you have a give-away teacup, bring it along - we'll also be using some of Frankie Gibsons.

• Location: Holton Home

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

• Hostesses: Paula Pettengill

• Horticulture/ Design: We will be making arrangements for the residents rooms! If you have a give-a-way tea cup - please bring it.

Saturday, August 24, 10am

Green River Hydrangea Walk

Meet at Green Mountain Chapel to Carpool at 10am

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Saturday, July 1st

Monday is our 1st evening tour - July 1st 6-8pm

I have copied the minutes about the change here and we are also adding an additional garden thanks to Cassie Freese! (her address is incorrect in our member book - please correct to: 366 Hague Rd, Dummerston) Directions: Rt 30 over covered bridge, turn left then turn right onto Green Mt Camp Rd, then left onto Hague Rd. She is #366 and will have iced tea and a place to sit. Cassie's gardens are "revision gardens in progress"

Mary Heninger & Joan Seymour's gardens are still open for touring as well. It is hoped that the change of date & time will make it easier for everyone to take advantage of these beautiful locations!

Copy of decision to change date:

Progressive Gardens Tours: The gardens of Joan Seymour and Mary Heninger have been available can be toured on the first Saturday of each month from April thru October from 10 a.m. to noon. But few have been by to see the gardens. A number of members said they really wanted to do this project, but the timing was not working for them. After considerable discussion, it was moved and seconded that we move the timing to the first Monday of the month from 6 to 8 p.m. The motion passed

Progressive Garden Tours

Open garden tours for BFAGC members only. Here's a chance to see how these gardens develop and change throughout the season. You are welcome to wander the beautiful gardens of Mary Heninger and Joan Seymour from 10-12. (See addresses in your 2019 Garden Club Book)

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June 10, 2019 - Meeting

The Real Dirt, Backyard Composting with Cheryl Wilfong

Master Composter, Master Gardener, and author of The Real Dirt on Composting.

Literally down-to-earth! Figure out how to set up composting in your own backyard. Learn about the ins and outs of composting - what goes into the compost and what stays out. Determine what to do about critters in the compost. Discover some creative ways to use your compost and feel good that you can join the green planet movement by not moving any farther than your own backyard.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

  • Hostesses: Frankie Knibb

• Horticulture/ Design: Bring a branch from a flowering shrub

Saturday, June 1 10am-Noon

Progressive Garden Tours

Open garden tours for BFAGC members only. Here's a chance to see how these gardens develop and change throughout the season. You are welcome to wander the beautiful gardens of Mary Heninger and Joan Seymour from 10-12. (See addresses in your 2019 Garden Club Book)

Saturday, June 1

Naulakha House and Gardens Tour

12-2 PM, the garden club has been invited to have a special tour and walk through the 100+ year-old rhododendrums at Naulakha. This is open to 20 people only, at a cost of $5 per person. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the grounds outside. To reserve your place contact: Jill Stahl-Tyler Jill@globalcow.com

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May 13, 2019 - Meeting

Floral Photography Workshop with Bill Steele

During this month's meeting, we will be learning from Bill Steele as we fine-tune the art of photographing flowers. He will talk about the exposure triangle and some fundamental elements of close-up photography. Bring your camera or cell phone (if that's your camera) and questions as there may be time to help you figure out what all those little buttons and settings do.

• Location: Green Mountain Chapel

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

  • Hostesses: Karen Davis and Cassie Freese

• Horticulture/ Design: Early spring blossom

• bring a single blossom to display

Saturday, May 11

Flowers for Mom workshop

Brattleboro Farmer’s Market 10-11 AM

BFAGC will provide a few living flowers, potting soil and a planter to kids who would like to learn about gardening. Jill ST and Melissa K will be on hand to help the younger ones figure out how to make a living arrangement for their mothers. Donations to the garden club will be accepted (but not insisted upon). Other club members are encouraged to come help if they can (and perhaps purchase an extra six pack if they are out shopping, too).

Saturday, May 4

Progressive Garden Tours

Open garden tours for BFAGC members only. Here's a chance to see how these gardens develop and change throughout the season. You are welcome to wander the beautiful gardens of Mary Heninger and Joan Seymour from 10-12. (See addresses in your 2019 Garden Club Book)

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April 8, 2019 - Annual Meeting

Annual Garden Club Banquet at the Chesterfield Inn

Allison Bell will present her new book project!

Her book is about Grace Niles from Pownell, VT, author of the 1904 Orchids book. Allison’s presentation includes slides and an amazing story about this unusual woman!

Here are some intriguing tidbits about this years' speakers and presentation.

• • Presented by Allison Bell and Maida Goodwin, the powerful story of the Pownal author and botanist Grace Greylock Niles (1864-1943) and the development of her writing career from her intense connection to her native area.

  • Allison Bell is a graphic designer and photographer, and Maida Goodwin is an archivist of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Both women are plant conservation volunteers for the state of Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program

  • In her 1904 classic book, "Bog-Trotting for Orchids," Grace Niles extols the wonders of the rich and abundant bogs and wetlands found in the Pownal and the northern Berkshire area and invites readers to explore the mysteries hidden within these wetlands.

  • Grace Greylock Niles: Queen of the Moccasin Flower.

  • Niles’ legacy inspired area conservationists to assist in the preservation of Mountain Meadow, a

  • 180-acre natural area reaching from Pownal to Williamstown.

  • She published "The Origin of Plant Names" in 1902.

  • She died in 1943 at the Brattleboro Retreat.

  • Location: Chesterfield Inn

  • Time: 5:30 p.m. Hordeurves

  • 6:00 p.m. Dinner

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Saturday, April 6

Progressive Garden Tours

Open garden tours for BFAGC members only. Here's a chance to see how these gardens develop and change throughout the season. You are welcome to wander the beautiful gardens of Mary Heninger and Joan Seymour from 10-12. (See addresses in your 2019 Garden Club Book)

March 11, 2019 - Meeting

Shrub and Tree Pruning with Mary Heninger

Back by popular demand, we will review the reasons why, the when, and the how of pruning. Mary Heninger will have some examples to demonstrate methods and her favorite tools. If you have a potted shrub or small tree that needs pruning, bring it with you, as well as your favorite pruning tools.

Don’t let your favorite shrubs turn into this:

• Location: 1868 Crosby House Bed & Breakfast www.crosbyhouse.com 802-257-7145

• Time: 6:00 p.m.

  • Hostesses: Fran Jerard and Sheila Kinnare

• Horticulture/ Design: Surviving Mud Season – anything cheerful

  • • A branch from an evergreen tree or shrub.

Saturday, March 3

Vermont Flower Show, Essex Junction

https://greenworksvermont.org/vermont-flower-show

Saturday, March 9

SMITH COLLEGE BULB SHOW

8:45 AM departure from Exit 1 Outlet Mall for carpooling

(otherwise, meet at Smith College if you wish to drive yourself)

Join your fellow garden club friends in a treat for the eyes (and nose), seeing a glimpse of spring at the Smith College Bulb Show! $5 per person, includes all the bulbs—and the greenhouses if you want to walk through! We suggest wearing layers—and bringing your camera! It usually takes about an hour to walk through the show, although Saturday mornings are often very busy.

For any questions, contact Jill Stahl-Tyler

jill@globalcow.com

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February 15th – Fundraiser Bakesale at the Vermont Welcome Center 9am-7pm

February 3rd – Planning meeting at the Crosby House for the Executive & Committee Chairs

January - no meeting

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