April Newsletter
Need pots? These are offered by Sarah Beguelin!
We are entering Plant Sale Season (May 13th). If you have yet to sign up for a task, see the Bake Sale and Plant Sale sign ups linked here in the text. Be a digger ahead of time or donate extra divisions over and above the expected number from your garden if you will be away. This is an all hands on deck situation and essential to our club’s activities. There will be a more detailed post on diving and labelling coming soon from the Plant Sale Committee, but if you are out in your garden digging already, please remember plant divisions should be big enough that they should be worth $5 which will be the minimum we will be charging this year. Sarah Beguelin has post a plenty just waiting for pickup at the end of her driveway (see above) and Lauren Huyett also has a large inventory, just let her know.
Town Gardens maintenance will be starting up at the beginning of May. I understand Sandy Conrad and her husband Peter have already planted pansies into the Veterans’s garden at the Milldam last week, in time for the Patriots’ Day observations in town. Thank you, Sandy and Peter!
A sign up for the beds in front of Town Hall and at the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail crossing in West Concord will be posted early this coming week. Check the link to the Sign ups on the Member’s Resources page of the website.
Our April Program is this Wednesday, April 19th at 1pm in person and over zoom at TriCon. Our program is “Flower Pressing” An in person meeting with our special guest zooming in all the way from London. Melissa who is the co-author of The Modern Flower Press, and co owner of Jam Jar Flowers in London, will present the basics of flower pressing as well as ways to use pressed flowers. A Zoom link will be sent out ahead of the meeting. Flowers will be provided by Michelle McArdle. Thank you, Michelle.
Also looming is Arbor Day. Our club gift to the town this year is a Princeton Elm, and it will be planted across from the DPW on Keyes Road. Arbor Day Chair, Susan Hurley, and her committee will host a coffee and donuts celebration on Arbor Day, April 28th, at 10 am at the tree site. Please free to stop by and thank our DPW workers, and have a donut!
And on a side note, The Garden Conservancy is featuring gardens from our own Middlesex County this coming May 20th, in addition to an unusual spring open day at the Ruettgers’ Clock Tower garden in Carlisle on May 6th. Grab a friend and go!