September 2017 |
Garden History and Design Meeting with Terry McManus
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Date: Tuesday, September 26th - Coffee 9:30 am - Meeting 10:00 am
Location: Keeler Tavern Garden House 132 Main St. Ridgefield, CT Hostesses: Gigi Christel, Lori Rahlfs, Cathy Welsh, Linda Young Judges: Tamera Galvin, Kitsey Snow, Anne Tracy Details: It's 1927. Charles Lindberg has just completed the first successful trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. Women have voted in two Presidential elections. The Garden Club of America, just fourteen years old, is preparing to hold its Annual Meeting. The Rye, Greenwich, New Canaan, Bedford and Ridgefield Garden Clubs are hosting. Step 90 years back in time with us as we learn about the nine Ridgefield Gardens included in the 1927 meeting's garden tour, and the life and times of the women who owned them. Terry McManus, chair of RGC's Garden History and Design Committee and Zone II Representative for Garden History and Design, will take us on a visual and historical tour of the gardens, many of which are remarkably intact in Ridgefield today. Following the meeting, we will celebrate the season with a Garden Harvest Luncheon. We hope members will bring items to share made with ingredients from their own gardens, or from local farms or markets. Weather permitting, we'll have lunch in the garden of Julia Gilbert, one of our founding members, now the Keeler Tavern Museum. Sweepstakes DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Aster Class 2 Rose Class 3 Dahlia Class 4 Coleus Class 5 Homegrown Vegetable or Fruit Class 6 Preserves of Any Kind, Made this Year Class 7 Par Class 8 The Garden Harvest - Create an arrangement to reflect the bounty of the season. Use any combination of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, foliage or branches in a container or basket of your choice. Class 9 Pollinator Paradise - An arrangement of flowers and foliage welcoming pollinators into our gardens. |
October 2017 |
Fall Flower Arranging Workshop & Seed Share |
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Date: Tuesday, October 24th - Coffee 9:30 a.m. - Meeting 10:00 a.m.
Location: The Hickories 136 Lounsbury Road Ridgefield, CT 06877 Hostesses: Pat Bennett, Kitsey Snow, Nicole Walker Judges: Torrey Cooke, Helen Dimos, Tamera Galvin Details: The Hickories, Dina Brewster’s organic farm, will host our fall flower arranging workshop. We will compose fall arrangements with materials from the wildflower cutting garden. We hope our members will bring some of the beauty of fall home with them. Bring a favorite container or the club will be happy to provide one. Gardeners who collect seeds from their gardens are welcome to bring extras to share or swap with other members at this meeting. GCA recommends packing and labeling seeds in #3 coin envelopes, but please feel free to use anything handy. Be sure to include the name of the plant and your own name, so we know whom to thank in the spring! Sweepstakes: DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Flowering Specimen Class 2 Vegetable Class 3 Foliage Class 4 Par Class 5 In a Nutshell - Compose an autumn arrangement in miniature. Not to exceed four inches in any direction. DIVISION II: PHOTOGRAPHY Class 1 Autumn Joy - Present a photo showing the splendor of autumn in nature. |
November 2017
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Wreath Making Workshop & LunchDate: Tuesday, November 28, 2017.
Location: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, North Hall Time: 10:00 a.m. Hostesses: Deb Higgins, Christine Lodewick, Nancy Metz, Meredith Ward Please join our most festive event of the year as we create wreaths for the holidays! We will celebrate the beginning of the season with coffee, conversation, cookies and music. The club will provide a variety of cuttings and greenery. Everyone is encouraged to bring ribbons, greens and embellishments to add to their projects or to share. Clippers, gloves, hot glue guns and extension cords are other helpful items. Guests and friends are most welcome. Lunch to follow. |
December 2017
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Holiday CocktailsDate: Sunday, December 10, 2017
Time: 4-7 p.m. Holiday Party at the home of Meredith & Michael Ward. Our annual gathering of members and spouses to celebrate the holidays! The club will provide beverages. Members with last names A through M, please bring an appetizer. Surnames L through Z, please bring a dessert to share. |
December 2017
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Tour of GCA Headquarters, NYCDate: Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Place: Garden Club of America Headquarters 14 East 60th St. New York, New York. Details: Please join our tour of the newly renovated GCA Headquarters in New York City, which will be beautifully decorated for the holidays. Following our visit, we’ll enjoy lunch together nearby, visit the Rockefeller Center Tree and do some holiday shopping. Please register with Meredith Ward for this event by December 5th. |
February 2018
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Horticulture Meeting With Adam Wheeler of
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March 2018
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Annual Conservation Meeting With Doug TallamyDate: Tuesday, March 27th - Coffee 9:30 a.m. - Meeting 10:00 a.m.
Location & Registration: The Ridgefield Library Hostesses: Dale Boyer, Tamera Galvin, Meredith Ward Details: We are very fortunate to have Doug Tallamy speaking at our annual Conservation Meeting. Doug has been teaching about the value of native plants and how to make our back yards more diverse and more welcoming to beneficial insects for many years. His well known book, Bringing Nature Home is a favorite among gardeners. His latest book, The Living Landscape, authored with Rick Darke, is a gorgeously illustrated hardcover with lots of reference material on native plants and insects. Doug is a professor of Ecology, focusing on native plants, insects and biodiversity, at the University of Delaware. He was awarded his PhD and his MS in Entomology from the University of Maryland. Dr. Tallamy will share a guide to restoring the little things that run the world. Insect populations have declined 45% globally since 1974. The most alarming part of this statistic is that we don’t seem to care, despite the fact that a world without insects is a world without humans. So how do we build landscapes that support the pollinators, herbivores, detritivores, predators and parasitoids that run the ecosystems we depend on? Doug will remind us of the many essential roles insects play, and describe the simple changes we must make in our landscapes and our attitudes to keep insects on the ground, in the air and yes, on our plants. This meeting is open to the public. The Ridgefield Garden Club thanks the Board of the Norwalk River Watershed Association and the Ridgefield Library for their generous support of this meeting. To reserve a spot for this meeting, register here |
April 2018
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Wild Flavors with Didi Emmons & Eva SommaripaDate: Tuesday, April 24th - Coffee 9:30 a.m. - Meeting 10:00 a.m.
Location: Keeler Tavern Garden House 132 Main St. Ridgefield, CT Hostesses: Gigi Christel, Torrey Cooke, Florence Doud Judges: Janet Bruehlman, Helen Dimos, Pat Fisher Details: Chef Didi Emmons and legendary Massachusetts farmer Eva Sommaripa have come together to create Wild Flavors, a book exploring kitchen gardening techniques, recipes, unique herbs and edible plants. Didi and Eva will join us to share personal stories, colorful slides, visual examples and a treasure trove of live herbs and kitchen plants. Sweepstakes: DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Narcissus, large cupped Class 2 Narcissus, small cupped Class 3 Helleborus Class 4 A flowering branch Class 5 Par Class 6 A Spring Arrangement DIVISION II: PHOTOGRAPHY Class 1 April Showers - Present a photo showing a flower, flowers or foliage during or after a rain shower. |
May 2018
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Ridgefield Garden Club ~ 104th Annual Meeting ~Date: Tuesday, May 22nd, Coffee 10:00 am, Meeting 10:30 am, Lunch Noon
Place: Silver Spring Country Club 439 Silver Spring Road Ridgefield, CT Judges: Adela Booth, Pat Fisher, Glenny Montanari Details: We will celebrate the end of our year with our Annual Meeting at Silver Spring Country Club with lunch to follow. This is the one meeting which is “members only”. Sweepstakes: DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Iris, bearded Class 2 Tulip Class 3 Peony, Herbaceous or Tree Class 4 Solomon’s Seal Class 5 Par Class 6 Silver Spring - An arrangement composed in a silver container. DIVISION II: PHOTOGRAPHY Class 1 Graeloe - A photograph of Ballard Garden or Greenhouse during any season. Class 2 Children’s Nature Photography An Exhibit of Photos by Member’s Children, Grandchildren, Nieces or Nephews Children’s Division (12 years & under) Youth Division (12-17 years) |