 Burlington Garden Club Celebrates National Garden Week Celebrate National Garden Week: June 4-10, 2023 SUNDAY, JUNE 4: The Garden Conservancy OPEN DAYS GARDENS in Vermont. Tickets available on the website. MONDAY, JUNE 5: Burlington Garden Club members donate and plant flowers/vegetables at Birchwood Terrace Rehab and Healthcare. FLOWER DONATION DROPOFF 9:30–10:30 a.m. at Vermont GARDEN PARK PLANTING 11:00 a.m. Planting at Birchwood, Starr Farm Road TUESDAY, June 6: Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont (FGCV) Annual Meeting @ Philo Ridge Farm in Charlotte, VT 10:00 am Installation of Doris Van Mullen as Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont state president. Guest speaker: Gail Kirby, BGC member. Topic: "Herbs for Health" WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7: Join club members in the BUTTERFLY Garden at 9:00 a.m. and GRANDMA & GRANDPA Gardens at 10:00 a.m. Vermont Garden Park, 1100 Dorset Street. Bring garden tools. THURSDAY, JUNE 8: SHARE The Love of gardening – take a bouquet of flowers, a houseplant or perennial to a friend or neighbor. Bring an arrangement to a local school, store, or business along with a National Garden Club poster. Encourage others to join a local garden club! FRIDAY, JUNE 9: Tour a local garden center, visit a Farmer’s Market, enjoy a nearby vineyard, walk through a local art gallery or peruse your favorite Gardening book. SATURDAY, JUNE 10: Rest and rejuvenate – Read a book, take a walk or enjoy a nap in your favorite garden space. Watch your favorite garden movie or a YouTube video of a garden you would like to someday visit or for inspiration. Movies about Gardening Fiction: The Secret Garden – A classic about a young girl sent to live with her uncle on his remote country estate in the Yorkshire moors. While exploring, she discovers a secret garden. Green Fingers – A Quirky British 90’s classic inspired by the true story of convicts becoming gifted gardeners and being allowed to enter their prize flowers in the Hampton Court Garden Show. Dare To Be Wild – A true story of a garden designer and her designs for the Chelsea Flower Show. Sweeping landscapes, lovely gardens and a little bit of love. A Little Chaos – Starring Kate Winslet as a 17th century landscape gardener at Versailles. Non-Fiction: The Gardener- A Dedication to Frank Cabot, “amateur” gardener, horticulturist and influential philanthropist who created The Garden Conservancy Back to Eden – An educational film about no-till gardening. Coming up June 30 - currently filled MONTREAL BOTANICAL GARDENS TRIP WITH HOST CHARLIE NARDOZZI FRIDAY JUNE 30, 2023 IN THE MORNING MEET YOUR GARDEN HOST CHARLIE NARDOZZI AND TRIP DIRECTOR DEB FLANDERS. BOARD OUR PRIVATE COACH AT THE DOUBLETREE BY HILTON HOTEL ON WILLISTON ROAD IN SO. BURLINGTON AND DEPART FOR A FULL DAY EXCURSION TO MONTREAL’S BOTANICAL GARDENS. ENJOY EXPLORING THE GARDENS AND SPECIAL EXHIBITS WITH THE GUIDANCE OF CHARLIE NARDOZZI. A BOXED LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED FOR EACH PARTICIPANT. AFTER OUR EXTENDED VISIT WE’LL RETURN TO BURLINGTON IN THE EARLY EVENING. 2023 Summer Garden Tours Coordinators: Susan Hartman, Margie Larson All members of the Burlington Garden Club are invited to participate in the Summer Garden Tours. Each tour is a visit to one garden. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. Details of the tour will be announced in advance by email, with a request for an RSVP. Please inform the coordinator if your plans change, as it is a courtesy to our host to have an accurate count of attendees. Those without email may request a phone contact. Garden Tour 1: Thursday, June 15, 2023, Time: 10:00 a.m. Paul Wieczoreck’s Garden 2800 Lincoln Hill Road, Hinesburg, VT Garden Tour 2: Thursday, July 13, 2023, Time: 10:00 a.m. Lorraine Vorse’s Garden 126 Hanley Ln, Jericho VT 05465 Garden Tour 3: Tuesday, August 15, 2023, Time: 11:00 a.m. A Joint Garden Tour with St. Albans Garden Club Taylor Park, St. Albans, Kelly Wakefield, MG and curator of Taylor Park Garden MONTHLY BGC MEETINGS held at FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 899 DORSET STREET, SOUTH BURLINGTON Unless otherwise noted, Club meetings are open to the community with no admission fees, and held at 12:00 on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Faith United Methodist Church. After a short social time with refreshments - 12:00-12:30 pm, then a brief business meeting (12:30 - 1:00 pm), and starting at 1:00 pm there will be a presentation on a variety of subjects. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2023 Annual Meeting & Luncheon TIME: 10:30 AM LOCATION: Catamount Country Club Topic: “Learning to Look: The Art of Garden Observation” Speaker: Pat Webster Coordinated by Doris Van Mullen It’s not so much what we look at that matters, it’s what we see. In this inspirational program, Patterson Webster suggests three steps to help you to get the most out of a garden visit – and shows you how to apply the ideas to your garden at home Using her photographs of gardens in Europe and North America, she shows how visiting other gardens allows us to see our own gardens with fresh eyes, helping us to pinpoint what works and what doesn’t TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022 TIME: 1:00 PM Topic” “Photography– How to capture the moment through your camera" Speaker: Arabella Dane Coordinated by Doris Van Mullen Arabella will walk us thru the tools we have on our i-phones, and will present a PowerPoint on judging photography. Arabella is an accredited photography judge for the Photography Society of America, and a NGC master judge, and a Garden Club of America judge emeritus in Design, Horticulture and Photography. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022 TIME: 6:00 PM Topic: “Kitchen Garden Design” Speaker: Ellen Ecker Ogden Coordinated by Mary Scollins Learn what to grow for the best flavor and fragrance, and how to get started growing a food garden and becoming a seed saver. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023 TIME: 1:00 PM Friends & Flowers Luncheon Deborah Flanders music/singing TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023 TIME: 1:00 PM Topic “How Forests Work” Speaker: Ethan Tapper Coordinated by: Karen Villanti Forests play a crucial role in preserving our environment. How does climate change affect wildlife, trees, and plant habitat in our forests? How do we become stewards to protect our forests on our land or elsewhere? Ethan will provide answers for these timely, important questions. TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023 TIME: 1:00 PM Topic: “Creating a Mini Meadow: Grow a Little Patch of Colorful Flowers Anywhere around Your Yard”! Speaker: Mike Lizotte Coordinated by Doris Van Mullen Mike will take us through the process of successfully creating a miniature meadow that suits their climate, soil, and growing goals, whether planting to beautify a hell strip, halt erosion, fill a boggy spot, or establish a nesting area for bees and butterflies. Mike known as the Seed Man will discuss the keys to creating, caring for, and reaping the rewards of thriving meadows through the seasons, year after year. TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2023 TIME: 1:00 PM Topic: “Gardening with Tried-and-True perennial” Speaker: Silvia Jope Coordinated by Andy Kenney Silvia will highlight the perennials she grows or observes every year that never fail to wow me.  2022 Summer Garden Tour - Cady Falls Botanical Gardens  Floral Arranging Class with Gail and Chris at Chappell's Florist  2022 BGC Annual Meeting Left to Right: Nancy Bell, Mary Ellen Johnson, Kirk Brown, Barbara Gaida, Cindy Lin   Using garden skills, and generosity to make the community gardens beautiful Comments are closed.
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