PROGRAMS
2019 - 2020
PLEASE COME AS OUR GUEST!
The public is always welcome at our programs
Sept, Oct, Nov, Mar & May
Programs begin at 10:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m. PGC Business Meeting
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee & Refreshments
Visitors Welcome
Surprise raffle at each meeting bring your luck & a dollar
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. Monday, September 9, 2019
The Late Summer Garden
Maude Odgers
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Maude will speak about plants and garden design for the Late Summer Garden. Maude is a professional garden designer who resides and gardens in Peterborough. Her spectacular gardens have been open to the public many times for the Garden Conservancy Monadnock Open Days, and have been featured in NH Home and Better Homes & Gardens.
Maude also designs and leads the volunteer team of the lovely Peterborough town gardens.
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Big Trees of New Hampshire
Kevin Martin
at Harris Center for Conservation Education, 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH 03449
NH native, author and wooden boat builder Kevin Martin will bring us through the woods and into cities all over NH to find and measure the very largest living trees in our landscape. New Hampshire has 11 national champion Big Trees. Martin will share local and statewide hikes to locate New Hampshire’s largest trees on public land and in cities. He will show and discuss the state’s biggest trees as described in his book Big Trees of New Hampshire.
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Flower Trends of 2019
Barbara Jobin
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Barbara Jobin is an experienced floral designer and a member of the Concord Garden Club. She runs workshops in Concord on flower design. Barbara will show a PowerPoint presentation and then demonstrate holiday floral designs that will be raffled off at the end of the presentation.
PLEASE COME AS OUR GUEST!
The public is welcome at our programs
Sept, Oct, Nov, March & May
PGC Business Meeting 9:30 a.m.
Coffee & Refreshments 10:00 a.m.
All Programs begin at 10:30 a.m.
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Monday, December 9, 2019
Holiday Party
Since we are meeting in a member's home, we invite only members, and guests of members, to attend
In 2019, we continue in our 6th year of supporting our local Monadnock Transitional Shelter
Bring your cards and items! We will assemble our MATS baskets! All items will be collected, placed in large tubs, cellophane wrapped with a large red bow, labeled and then picked up by a MATS representative.
Please check your yearbook for more details
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(The Club takes a mid-winter break in January & February- we could consider this our brief hibernation;)
Monday, March 9, 2020
NH State Chestnut Restoration Project
AJ Dupree
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
AJ Dupre, from the NH Division of Forest and Lands, will present a program on the State of NH Chestnut Restoration Program. The American Chestnut Foundation is looking for site locations for seed and breeding orchards for American Chestnuts. We will hear about site requirements for successful orchards, and how you can be involved with this important research. AJ will also include a brief presentation on the biology and history of the American Chestnut tree, the impacts of the chestnut blight fungus, and how the American Chestnut Foundation is using breeding programs to grow blight-resistant chestnut trees. Two of these private land orchards are here in Peterborough, NH.
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Monday, April 13, 2020
Big Annuals for Big Color
Laura Trowbridge
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Laura Trowbridge lives and gardens in Peterborough. You may have visited her gardens when they were open for the Garden Conservancy Monadnock Open Gardens Days. Laura is a well-respected designer who has designed gardens all over the Monadnock Region. She will speak on how to include large bold annuals to make your garden come alive to complement and keep your gardens colorful when the perennials flourish has faded. Laura’s gardens have been featured in several local and national magazines.
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Monday, May 11, 2020
The World in Your Garden
Roger Swain
The Monadnock Center, Bass Hall, 19 Grove St, Peterborough, NH 03458
Roger Swain is a well-known horticulturalist who lives and gardens in the Monadnock Region. He will talk about the plant families and their geographic origins as well as the people who introduced the plants that we now love to our country.
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Monday, June 8, 2020
Our PGC 57th Annual Meeting
&
Luncheon in a private residence
Members Only
Arrive at 11:30 a.m., Luncheon at 12 noon
Please check your yearbook for details
If you would like to join our club,
please contact us.
We welcome you to come to the annual meeting, as our guest, to join.
The Late Summer Garden
Maude Odgers
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Maude will speak about plants and garden design for the Late Summer Garden. Maude is a professional garden designer who resides and gardens in Peterborough. Her spectacular gardens have been open to the public many times for the Garden Conservancy Monadnock Open Days, and have been featured in NH Home and Better Homes & Gardens.
Maude also designs and leads the volunteer team of the lovely Peterborough town gardens.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, October 21, 2019
Big Trees of New Hampshire
Kevin Martin
at Harris Center for Conservation Education, 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH 03449
NH native, author and wooden boat builder Kevin Martin will bring us through the woods and into cities all over NH to find and measure the very largest living trees in our landscape. New Hampshire has 11 national champion Big Trees. Martin will share local and statewide hikes to locate New Hampshire’s largest trees on public land and in cities. He will show and discuss the state’s biggest trees as described in his book Big Trees of New Hampshire.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, November 11, 2019
Flower Trends of 2019
Barbara Jobin
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Barbara Jobin is an experienced floral designer and a member of the Concord Garden Club. She runs workshops in Concord on flower design. Barbara will show a PowerPoint presentation and then demonstrate holiday floral designs that will be raffled off at the end of the presentation.
PLEASE COME AS OUR GUEST!
The public is welcome at our programs
Sept, Oct, Nov, March & May
PGC Business Meeting 9:30 a.m.
Coffee & Refreshments 10:00 a.m.
All Programs begin at 10:30 a.m.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, December 9, 2019
Holiday Party
Since we are meeting in a member's home, we invite only members, and guests of members, to attend
In 2019, we continue in our 6th year of supporting our local Monadnock Transitional Shelter
Bring your cards and items! We will assemble our MATS baskets! All items will be collected, placed in large tubs, cellophane wrapped with a large red bow, labeled and then picked up by a MATS representative.
Please check your yearbook for more details
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(The Club takes a mid-winter break in January & February- we could consider this our brief hibernation;)
Monday, March 9, 2020
NH State Chestnut Restoration Project
AJ Dupree
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
AJ Dupre, from the NH Division of Forest and Lands, will present a program on the State of NH Chestnut Restoration Program. The American Chestnut Foundation is looking for site locations for seed and breeding orchards for American Chestnuts. We will hear about site requirements for successful orchards, and how you can be involved with this important research. AJ will also include a brief presentation on the biology and history of the American Chestnut tree, the impacts of the chestnut blight fungus, and how the American Chestnut Foundation is using breeding programs to grow blight-resistant chestnut trees. Two of these private land orchards are here in Peterborough, NH.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, April 13, 2020
Big Annuals for Big Color
Laura Trowbridge
at Shieling Forest Learning Center, 395 Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Laura Trowbridge lives and gardens in Peterborough. You may have visited her gardens when they were open for the Garden Conservancy Monadnock Open Gardens Days. Laura is a well-respected designer who has designed gardens all over the Monadnock Region. She will speak on how to include large bold annuals to make your garden come alive to complement and keep your gardens colorful when the perennials flourish has faded. Laura’s gardens have been featured in several local and national magazines.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, May 11, 2020
The World in Your Garden
Roger Swain
The Monadnock Center, Bass Hall, 19 Grove St, Peterborough, NH 03458
Roger Swain is a well-known horticulturalist who lives and gardens in the Monadnock Region. He will talk about the plant families and their geographic origins as well as the people who introduced the plants that we now love to our country.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, June 8, 2020
Our PGC 57th Annual Meeting
&
Luncheon in a private residence
Members Only
Arrive at 11:30 a.m., Luncheon at 12 noon
Please check your yearbook for details
If you would like to join our club,
please contact us.
We welcome you to come to the annual meeting, as our guest, to join.
