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 Room 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 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. We hope to use Sweepstakes design entries as table centers for our potluck lunch following the meeting! |
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RGC Holiday CocktailsDates: Sunday, December 11th
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Place: The Home of Meredith and Mike Ward 220 Nod Road Ridgefield, CT |
February 2017 |
Annual Horticulture Meeting with Kim Eierman |
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Date: Tuesday, February 28th, Coffee 1:00 pm, Meeting 1:30 pm
Location: Keeler Tavern 132 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877 Hostessess: Whitney Freeman, Pat Fisher, Janet Bruehlman Judges: Nancy Metz, Adela Booth, Margaret Eustace Details: Kim Eierman is an Environmental Horticulturist specializing in ecological landscapes and native plants. She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center in NY, Rutgers Home Gardeners School and several other institutions. Kim is an active speaker nationwide on many ecological gardening topics, presenting for industry conferences, "green events," Master Gardener groups, garden clubs, nature centers, Audubon Society chapters, beekeeping groups, and other organizations interested in environmental improvements. Kim also provides horticultural consulting to homeowners and commercial clients. In addition to being a Certified Horticulturist through the American Society for Horticultural Science, Kim is a Master Gardener, a Master Naturalist, an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional, a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center and a member of the Garden Writers Association. Sweepstakes: DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Forced bulb Class 2 Houseplant Class 3 Par DIVISION II: PHOTOGRAPHY Class 1 ‘Enjoying a garden’- present a photo showing enjoyment, in any form, in the garden; for gardens are not just for looking at but for experiencing as well Class 2 Berries in the garden Class 3 An Eye for Foliage- let’s experience foliage in a new, and energizing way through your photo |
March 2017
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Annual Conservation Meeting with Geordie ElkinsDates: Tuesday, March 28th, Coffee 9:30 am, Meeting 10:00 am
Place: Keeler Tavern 132 Main St. Ridgefield, CT 06877 Hostesses:Tracy Inall, Pat Fischer, Dale Boyer Details: Our annual conservation meeting will feature speaker Geordie Elkins, the Operations Director at the Highstead Foundation in Redding. He will speak on "the ecological aesthetic" and the benefits of using native plants in our landscaping. He also will discuss the impact our landscaping practices have on local watersheds. This will be a talk that will instruct our planting choices to improve the local ecology. |
April 2017 |
The Garden Guru - Ken Russell |
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Date: Tuesday, April 25th, Coffee 9:30 am - Meeting 10:00 am
Place: Keeler Tavern 132 Main Street Ridgefield, CT Hostesses: Barbara Watson, Torrey Cooke, Gail Twomey Judges: Sharon Dunphy, Cathy Welsh, Nicole Walker Details: Kent Russell is a perennial plant expert and a raconteur extraordinaire. His presentations are fun and lively, informative and interesting, dramatic and non-stop. To create eye-catching drama, Kent will showcase a wide assortment of plant material while offering fascinating combinations that will compliment any garden. The former “Garden Guru” host of PBS travels to garden clubs and horticultural organizations throughout the East Coast. Kent’s name is even listed as the “preferred speaker” by the Garden Club of America. Recent presentations of Kent’s work include the Newport and Philadelphia Flower Shows, but nationwide, his creative garden designs have been featured in numerous lifestyle magazines. Kent contends “he was born with a silver trowel in his hand.” His introduction to horticulture began as a child at the family nursery, Russell Gardens, located in Bucks County, PA, where he is still based. By the time he was a teenager, Kent specialized in the propagation, maintenance and sales of over 1,500 different perennial species. At the age of 19, he left the family business to work with famed Renny Reynolds to establish the gardens of Hortilus Farm, a one hundred acre Garden Guru, for sure, Kent’s lectures, consultations and garden designs are guaranteed to inspire, educate and delight! SWEEPSTAKES: DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Daffodil Class 2 A flowering branch Class 3 Par Class 4 A spring arrangement with flowers and foliage from your garden or local farm stand |
May 2017
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Ridgefield Garden Club ~ 103rd Annual Meeting ~Date: Tuesday, May 23rd, Coffee 10:00 am, Meeting 10:30 am, Lunch Noon
Place: Silver Spring Country Club 439 Silver Spring Road Ridgefield, CT Judges: Glenny Montanari, Deb Higgins, Dale Boyer Details: We will be celebrating the end of the year at Silver Spring Country Club with lunch following the annual meeting. Once again, the club will absorb some of the cost of the lunch with the hope that all of our members will be able to attend. Details will follow in our monthly newsletter closer to the May meeting. Please note that this is the one meeting which is “members only”. Sweepstakes: DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE Class 1 Club grow challenge specimen Class 2 Cut fern specimen Class 3 Peony (Herbaceous or Tree) Class 4 Tulip Class 5 Par Class 6 Arrangement class to be announced at April Meeting and in Newsletter |
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July 2016
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Visiting Gardens Trip
Date: TO BE DETERMINED
Location: Details: |
