The Spring Glen Garden Club, a charter member of the Federated Garden Club of Connecticut, Inc. and National Garden Clubs, Inc since 1929, will be holding its November meeting on Monday Nov. 18, 2019.  The meeting will be held at Lockwood Cottage, 890 Evergreen Ave., Hamden.  The lunch will begin at 11:45 am, bring your own lunch, dessert and beverage will be provided.  After a short business meeting the speaker Tovah Martin will start at 1 pm.  Tovah’s subject will be “Garden as if the World depends on you”.

     Tovah is an avid (verging on obsessed) gardener indoors and outside.  She is the author of many gardening books.  Her newly published title The Garden in Every Sense and Season received the GardenComm’s Silver Medal Media Award in 2019.  The book follows The Indestructible Houseplant, the Unexpected Houseplant and the New Terrarium as well as Tasha Tudor’s Garden.  She is a freelance writer, her articles have appeared in publications throughout the country including Country Gardens, Garden Design, Traditional Home, Martha Stewart Living, Cottage Journal, Millieu, Yankee, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens as well as Gardens Illustrated and The Daily Telegraph in Europe and Morning Calm-the Korean Airlines in-flight magazine.  She is an accredited Organic Land Care Professional through NOFA, an honorary member of the Garden Clubs of America and the recipient of their medal for outstanding literary achievement.  In 2013, she received the Gustav Mehlquist Award-the highest honor bestowed by the Connecticut Horticultural Society.   She has appeared on the Martha Stewart Show, PBS television series and the CBS Sunday Early Show as well as many other television and radio broadcasts.  She speaks throughout the country and has lectured aboard the QE2.  Tovah can be found at www.tovahmartin.com and she posts on Face book at Plantwise by Tovah Martin.

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