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.

Schedule of Membership Meetings for the 2019-2020 Season
Monday Sept. 9, Laurie Masciandaro "Historic Gardens of CT."
Monday Oct.21, Deidra Wallin "Benefits of Horticulture"
Monday Nov. 18, Tovah Martin "Garden as if the world depends on you"
Dec. 9 Bonnie Beyers-Holiday designs
Monday Mar. 9, Joint meeting with The Woodbridge Garden Club, Evelyn Lee, 4 designs
Monday April 13, Roderick Larson "Invasive Plants of CT."
Monday May 11, Sis Schlesinger, Jane Stolzenberg and Pat McGalliard " Celebrating 95 Years: A history of The Spring Glen Garden Club

Brooksvale Fall Festival

     The Spring Glen Garden Club will have booth at the Brooksvale Fall Festival.  We will have fall goodies for sale. There will have a few give-aways. Please stop by our booth at the festival. 

     The Brooksvale Fall Festival will be Saturday Sept. 28, 2019, rain date Sunday 29, from 11am till 4 pm, at Brooksvale Park, Hamden, Ct.

The Spring Glen Garden Club a  fixture in the Community since 1925, a chartered member of the The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc. and National Garden Clubs, Inc. since 1929. 

     The Spring Glen Garden Club will be holding its April meeting, Monday, April 8, 2018 at Lockwood Cottage.  Lockwood Cottage is located at 890 Evergreen Ave. Hamden, CT.

     The meeting will begin at 11:45 am, with a social hour, bring lunch, dessert and beverage will be served.  After a brief business meeting the speaker will begin at 1pm.  The speaker will be Kim Stoner; her subject will be “Planting for bees needs”.

     Donation $5. Please join us. For further information, please call Dorothy at 475-434-8017.

The Spring Glen Garden Club:  The 2019 season.

Tues. March 12, Joint meeting with the Woodbridge Garden Club, Elis Eddson, “How to garden wiser as you grow older”.

Monday April 8, Kim Stoner, “Planting for bees needs”.

Meetings will be held at Lockwood Cottage, Hamden. The March meeting with Woodbridge will be held in Woodbridge. Please check newspapers, Face book or blog for further information.

     Pictured left to right Marti Onofrio, Horticultural Chairperson and Theresa McCabe, Vice-President of The Spring Glen Garden Club at the Miller Library in December.  The club held a tea at the library to let the Community know about the garden club.

  The Spring Glen Garden Club a fixture in the Community since 1925 is a chartered member of The Federated Garden Clubs on Connecticut, Inc. and National Garden Clubs, Inc. since 1929.

    

 Gary Zinsmeyer with his fabulous designs he created recently for members of The Spring Glen Garden Club. The program was called “Holiday Magic”.

     Gary has done many garden club programs over the years.  His business, now in its 30^th year specializes in galas, corporate events, weddings and larger celebrations.

     Gary was a high school vocational education teacher for many years. Then he joined Cornell University serving as an Extension Agent.  From there he went on to start his own business- Gary Z of Stamford.

     The beautiful designs were raffled off to the attendees.