Dear Members:

This coming Friday, December 9 is our holiday gathering, where we will be  making holiday cards for a Good Cause followed by a festive holiday luncheon, held at the Greenwich Botanical Center. Volunteers to decorate and set up should arrive by  9am. The card making will begin at 10am followed by the holiday party about 11:30am. Please bring small paper cutting scissors for cutting and creating the cards.

Be sure to check the Members’ page on our club website gardenclubofoldgreenwich.org/members to access all the programs and schedules for the year under the header “Meeting Schedules”. Visit the website calendar to keep up to date on scheduled club activities, such as the upcoming Holiday Garden Therapy days.  If you have important club dates to share, please let Kara Donahue, Corresponding Secretary know.  

Louise Weber is creating another holiday tree to enter in the Greenwich Historical Society’s Festival of Tabletop Trees on behalf of the club. See below for date and times to see it. Currently, the first tree entered in this holiday event is currently gracing the reading room at the Perrot Library.

Best,

Martina

Friday, December 9, 2022 @ 10am:

Bring your Luminary Design to the Holiday Luncheon

Holiday Luminary Design:

 “Holiday Inn '' by Irving Berlin

A Luminary Design. Dimension of design is 10” max. Designer’s choice of fresh or artificial materials. Must have some illuminating element, battery operated candle/candles, fairy lights, etc. Real wax candles are allowed but won’t be lit. The designs will be placed around the room and be used as centerpieces. Design consultant: Louise Weber

Come see the Tabletop Tree designed by Louise Weber,

 entered on behalf of our club.

Greenwich Historical Society

December 8 -9, 9am - 5pm

December 10, 11am - 7pm

Horticulture Challenges

The following link will take you to the full description for the Amaryllis and  Hyacinth challenges sponsored by the Horticulture Committee:

Email regarding horticulture challengesFINAL (google.com)

Post a photograph of your amaryllis on Padlet between December 15 and January 15. Contact Betsie Harkins for instructions.

 Succulent Workshop

February 1, 2023

Innis Arden Cottage, Tod’s Point

Pick up one of the 4” planters from Beth Eaton-Koch, decorate to suit your taste,and come to the Innis Arden Cottage at Tod’s Point, and plant with succulents.

Cost: $13 payable when you pick up your 4” planter.

GCOG Garden with Us

Saturday, Dec. 17 10:00 AM 

Meet at the Gateway Garden on the corner of Sound Beach and the Post Road. We will plant daffodils and tidy up the bed for the winter. Please bring gloves and trowel.

 Many hands make light work!

Design Demonstration

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 @ 11am

Innis Arden Cottage, Tod’s Point

Learn what is required to make the next two scheduled designs: A Still Life Design and A Creative Line Design. We will cover the requirements, the supplies and the techniques to make an award winning design. Please bring all those design questions you have been longing to have answered.

Volunteer Needed

We need help in creating short slideshows for our website’s homepage. The slideshow is the first thing that people see when they visit the website and we want to let people know what we do. To keep it fresh, we like to update it every month or two and we need someone to create them. This would be a great activity for  members because it will let you know what the club is doing.

Creating a slide show is actually quite easy - if you have ever used Word or PowerPoint you will find it very familiar. Char will be available to walk you through it and there is a simple template to guide you.

Email Char at info@gardenOG.org

The Book Group            

Wednesday December 7 @ 10am (Zoom)

Join the Zoom Meeting:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82397950821?pwd=

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The Heirloom Garden

by Viola Shipman

The Book Nook

New! Books recommended by GCOG members

The Greenwich Library not only is a wonderful resource for hard copies of books and magazines, but also an incredible resource on all kinds of magazines digitally All Magazines - Greenwich Library - OverDrive . These can be viewed from your computer on the library site or downloaded to the Libby App on your tablet or phone.  Here is a compilation of some of the many of the gardening magazines online  to while away the winter months until spring arrives:

Gardener’s World

Gardens Illustrated

The English Garden

Modern Gardens

Garden Gate

Kitchen Gardens

Garden Answers

Horticulture

Bloom

Homegrown

Gardening for Health

Wellbeing Organic Gardening

Gardening the Easy Way

Grow to Eat

If you have a garden related book you would like to recommend, please let me know at tinadosh@gmail.com.