The Spring Glen Garden Club will be holding its October meeting on Monday October 21, 2019 at 11:45 am at Lockwood Cottage, 890 Evergreen Ave. Bring your own lunch, dessert and beverage will be provided. After a short business meeting the speaker will begin at 1 pm.  The speaker will be Deirdra Wallin, her subject will be “Benefits of Horticulture”.  Deirdra is a Registered Horticultural Therapist, Advanced Master Gardener, Master Composter and Master Naturalist with a background in social services and volunteer management.  Owns and operates, The Personal Gardener, a business that specializes in the development and maintenance of the home garden and has grown to providing educational, social and therapeutic programming for individuals and groups.  Program coordinator at The Connecticut Audubon Society, Deer Pond Farm in Sherman, Connecticut.

     Laurie Masciandro at the September meeting gave a wonderful lecture on the Historic Gardens of CT.  The gardens are nice places to visit, many designed or planned by women. Beatrix Farrand and Gertrude Jekyll work is featured in some of these gardens. Please visit the gardens, a few are: Osborne Homestead Museum and Kellogg Environmental Center, Derby, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme and Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford.

     Please join us on October 21, for another informative lecture.  Donation $5.