January Newsletter
January Program: Buttrick Gardens
The Programming Committee invites you to join them in welcoming Kathleen Fahey, Executive Director of the Friends of Minute Man National Park, who will present our January program, The History of Buttrick Gardens: Tricon Church, 1pm, on Wednesday January 15th. Tea and cookies to follow.
The Pansy Project
Pam Gardner from Seeds and Weeds, Maryann Street, Lauren Huyett, Paula Casey, Kate Wharton, Pam Nelson.
Kate Wharton writes:
The Pansy Project Committee met January 8th to deliver letters to all the participating downtown merchants, confirming that on April 10 we will be supplying them with pansies and geraniums, all red white and blue!, for the 250 celebration. We happened to convene at Sara Campbell before we started our appointed rounds. It was a particularly cccold day. But fun. K
Thank you for the Wreath
Hello,
I am a librarian at the Concord Library. I wanted to thank you for the beautiful wreaths! We’ve had multiple people specifically tell us how beautiful the wreaths are and they wanted us to be sure to let the garden club know they appreciated them!
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Best,
Barbara Gugluizza
Quilts in Bloom
Lauren Huyett sent this email out this week. If you missed it, here it is in full:
Holly Cratsley [chair of the Concord 250 Community Participation Subcommittee] and Faye Allen [Subcommittee member] asked that I email you about the wonderful opportunity for floral designers from The Garden Club of Concord to participate in the “Quilts in Bloom” at the “Quilts 250; Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy” Show. We will be pairing 10 quilts with 10 floral arrangements. The Quilt Show is being held at The Concord Academy on March 22 and 23, 2025.
The quilts will be submitted by the end of January. The first week of February, we will be able to share images of the quilts with you. At that time you can select the quilt you’d like to pair with your flower arrangement. We will provide contact information in the event the quilter may want to discuss the quilt or describe any elements that they would like emphasized.
We will be ordering 10 round tables that will be 30 inches high and 30 inches round with black tablecloths for the floral arrangement to sit on.
Quilts in Bloom will add a wonderful dimension to the quilt show and we’ve been promised some great publicity. Please let me know if anyone from your garden club would like to participate. Thank you so much for your consideration.
Winter Repose
Some floral eye candy from photographer Debi Shapiro.
Just for fun: How about some medieval dog names?
Given our recurring drought conditions here in Concord, I’m sharing these lessons from the High Line park in New Yarn in how they consider their particularly high and dry situation.
This was a sweet article from the NYTimes back in October: A beloved old tree lives on
And it’s always nice to check in on the most recent video tour of Chanticleer Garden