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PETERBOROUGH GARDEN CLUB
PROGRAMS
2017-2018
PLEASE COME AS OUR GUEST!
The public is always welcome at our programs Sept, Oct, Nov, Mar & May
All Programs begin at 10:30 am
(9:30 am PGC Business Meeting; 10:00 am Coffee & Refreshments)
Monday, September 11, 2017
Edible Landscapes: For Health, Habitat, Families & the Future
John Forti
The Monadnock Center, Bass Hall, 19 Grove St, Peterborough, NH 03458
John Forti is a nationally recognized lecturer, garden historian, ethnobotanist and garden writer.
John will present an illustrated lecture to help us explore how to eat locally and enjoy the fruits of our own labors.
His talk delves into planting edible gardens and landscapes that offer healthy alternatives to our lawns and hedges.
Whether learning to explore our own back yards or the newest landscape style of the 21st century,
this talk offers meaningful ways to engage ourselves,
our kids and our community in cultivating a sense of place from seed to table.
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Monday, October 16, 2017
Bringing Home the Forest
Dan Jaffe
at Harris Center 83 Kings Hwy Hancock, NH 03449 (603) 525-3394
Dan Jaffe of the New England Wildflower Society
and Garden in the Woods in Framingham, MA
will talk with us about the essential role native plants play in ecosystems
and show how our beautiful native plants can be in included in our home landscapes.
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Monday, November 13, 2017
Vonnie and Wendy Make Colonial Williamsburg Style Wreaths!
at Shieling Forest, Entrance on Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Vonnie and Wendy will guide us through the custom of affixing fruits, vegetables,
dried flowers, herbs, and other plant life to basic Christmas forms like wreaths and swags.
This tradition traces its roots to the early years of the twentieth century,
a time when Christmas was growing in significance
and the Colonial Revival was pulling decorative impulses back toward the eighteenth century.
A raffle of arrangements will follow.
PLEASE COME AS OUR GUEST!
(The public is welcome at our programs Sept, Oct, Nov, March & May)
All Programs begin at 10:30 am
(PGC Business Meeting 9:30 am; Coffee & Refreshments 10:00 am)
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Monday, December 11, 2017
Holiday Party
Since we are meeting in a member's home, we invite only members and guest's of members to attend
We will be developing a program to assist a local non-profit in need.
In 2017, we continue in our 5th year of supporting the Monadnock Transitional Shelter
Please check your yearbook for details
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Monday, March 12, 2018
Automatic Plant Watering System,
Organic Lawn Care and Varmint Control
Richard Kahn
The Monadnock Center, 19 Grove St, Peterborough, NH 03458
Richard Kahn, organic landscaper and lawn care specialist,
will demonstrate how we can build our own automatic plant watering system
for next to nothing from largely repurposed materials.
PLEASE BRING ALONG A CLEAN, EMPTY PLASTIC CONTAINER
SUCH AS A 1 OR 2 LITER SODA BOTTLE
and take home a useful tool!
A translucent container, so that you can see the water level is preferable,
and the cap should be no smaller than a standard soda bottle cap.
Richard will also discuss organic lawn care and varmint control.
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Monday, April 9, 2018
Everything you need to know to grow Dazzling Dahlias!
Emily Cleaveland
at Shieling Forest, Entrance on Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Emily Cleaveland has been growing and selling dahlia flowers and tubers
in Vermont and New Hampshire for 19 years.
Emily hails from a background in science,
and often employs an experimental approach to her garden beds.
She has been touted by several magazines as “The Dahlia Lady” of Springfield, NH,
being cited for her big colorful blooms and robust tubers.
We are pleased to let you know that Emily will be bringing tubers
for our club members to purchase at this meeting!
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Monday, May 14, 2018
Grow It, Cut It, Arrange It!
Cheryl Monroe
at Shieling Forest, Entrance on Old Street Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458
Our friend Cheryl returns to us to show us
how to have blooms fresh from our own gardens to adorn our houses and tables,
even if we don’t have a separate cutting garden.
This program will give us plant selections that can easily work in existing garden space
that will provide bouquet after beautiful bouquet.
She will also provide suggestions for foliage, fruit
and other fun additions to make arrangements POP!
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Monday, June 11, 2018
Our PGC 55th Annual Meeting
&
Luncheon in a private residence, Members Only
Arrive at 11:30 am, 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.
