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Flowers not blooming in January? Try this Winter Bird Tour:

ShirleyWick — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:04:06 +0000

Winter Bird Tour

From our friends at the New London Maritime Society, there are two events of interest, both featuring Maggie Jones, Director of the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, as speaker:

The Third Thursday Lecture on January 21, 2010, 6:30-8:00pm, is entitled “Winter Birding Along the Shore,” Admission $10 for non-members of NLMS, sponsored by the New London Water Authority.

Then, an Excursion on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2-4 pm, is entitled “Birding Along the Thames River to Ocean Beach,” meeting at the Fort Trumbull parking lot, Fee $12 for non-members of NLMS, also sponsored by the New London Water Authority. Bring binoculars.

Please pre-register for these events by calling 860-447-2501 and to obtain directions for the lecture and/or excursion.

Secret Garden Tour Trip

Nancy Hevenor — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:25:36 +0000

The Mystic Garden Club is offering a trip to Newport for Members.
The Secret Garden Tour
Newport, Rhode Island

WHEN: Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 (Bus leaves at 7:30 am)
COST: $65.00 includes-bus, ticket & snacks; lunch on your own
Self-Guided Tour includes 8-10 private gardens of Newport, Rhode Island
Since this trip happens before our first meeting, we thought it best to include it with this letter so you all can contact Beverly Dodd for reservations.

For more information on this wonderful walking tour visit their website at http://www.secretgardentours.org/

BEHIND STONINGTON’S DOORS

Nancy Hevenor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:03:15 +0000

The Stonington Historical Society will host Behind Stonington’s Doors, a Village Tour of Historic Homes, on Saturday, October 3 from 10 am to 4 pm. Stonington, CT.
From clapboard to stone, colonial to federal, this charming seaside village will showcase seven unique homes, including the Old Lighthouse Museum.

Advance Tickets are $25; Day of Tour $30.
For tickets contact 860-535-8445 or http://www.stoningtonhistory.org

Mystic Seaport Garden Days

Nancy Hevenor — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:39:22 +0000

Mystic Seaport Presents First-Ever Garden Days
New Event Features Garden Tours, Hands-On Demonstrations, Children’s Activities and More

Mystic, Conn. ~ Horticulturalist, gardener, author and educational speaker Tovah Martin highlights the first-ever Garden Days at Mystic Seaport Friday through Sunday August 21 – 23.
Martin, who regularly appears on the PBS gardening series Cultivating Life, will present “Houseplants, Terrariums and You” Saturday, August 22 at 1 p.m. Martin has written several gardening books including Tasha Tudor’s Garden, View from a Sketchbook: Nature through the Eyes of Marjolein Bastin and The New Terrarium. She will be available for book signings after her presentation.
A Demonstration Tent on the Museum’s Village Green will host numerous activities throughout the weekend including fresh produce, herb and pesto demonstrations, a discussion of butterfly gardens, low maintenance naturalistic gardening lectures and more.
Additionally, visitors can tour the Museum’s historic and contemporary gardens, shop vendor booths, learn how to photograph gardens and flowers, create herb bundles and autumn wreaths and make their own seed packets in the Museum’s Print Shop.
The first 150 youth visitors each day will receive a complimentary sapling courtesy of Sprigs & Twigs Landscapes to take home and plant. Children can also take part in a garden scavenger hunt in the Children’s Museum and try their hand at various garden-themed arts and crafts in the Kids’ Activity Tent.
Other scheduled Master Gardeners will present the following lectures:
· Rose Hiskes – “Protecting Our Trees” – Friday, August 21 at 1 p.m. A senior scientist for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Hiskes specializes in Entomology and will discuss how insect problems and insect management can affect agriculture.
· Dawn Pettinelli – “Establishing Garden Beds” – Friday, August 21 at 3 p.m. Pettinelli is an assistant cooperative extension educator in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Connecticut. She manages the activities of the UConn Home and Garden Education Center and the Soil Nutrient Analysis Laboratory and specializes in horticulture, food safety, soil testing and pest control.
· Sheila Wertheimer – “Discovering Miss Florence Griswold’s Gardens” – Saturday, August 22, at 11 a.m. Wertheimer has been designing residential and historic gardens for more than 20 years with her firm Wertheimer & Associates. Her work has been instrumental in the historic renovations of Harkness Memorial State Park, the Florence Griswold Museum and the Monte Cristo Cottage.
· Brian Kent and Chad Frost – “Sustainability in Landscape Design” – Sunday, August 23 at 1 p.m. Principals of Kent & Frost, a landscape architecture firm in Mystic, CT, the landscape designers pride themselves on providing a “green design” for residences, urban streetscapes, town-wide master plans and parks.
Participating vendors and demonstrators for Garden Days include Bartlett Tree Service, Broken Arrow Nursery, Center for Vector Borne Disease at the University of Rhode Island, Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group, Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Drake Design Studio, KP Design, Lisa’s Garden Designs, New England Carnivorous Plant Society, Pan’s Acre Nursery, Seamen’s Inne, Sprigs & Twigs Landscapes LLC and Stephen Sisk Photography.
All activities are included in Museum admission. For more information, visit www.mysticseaport.org/gardendays.
Within the nine gardens at Mystic Seaport, visitors will find a diverse collection of gardens, trees and shrubs with hundreds of different varieties of plants that accentuate the beauty and historical context of the Mystic River, tall ships and historic village. Two recreated 19th-century gardens portray the social order, economy and cultural pursuits brought about by the Industrial Age. For more information, visit www.mysticseaport.org/gardens.

Events Newsletter

MysticGardenClub — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:30:21 +0000

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Mystic Garden Club 2009 Greens Sale – December 4 & 5

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Rooms and Blooms: A Mystic House and Garden Tour A Great Success

Mystic Garden Club — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:41:48 +0000

Submitted by Sally Halsey
The Mystic Garden Club and the Mystic River Historical Society are pleased to announce that over 1,100 visitors attended their recent House and Garden Tour in June. The Tour netted $25,000 which will be divided equally between the two organizations.
The Mystic Garden Club has purchased, planted and maintained the seasonal flower boxes for many years, helping to make downtown Mystic more beautiful. The club will use the funds to purchase more boxes and for other beautification projects.
The Mystic River Historical Society will add the funds to their endowment which assists in maintaining Portersville Academy and the William A. Downes Archive Building, as well as in purchasing archival supplies used for maintaining their collection of photographs, letters and other artifacts.
Over 100 volunteers helped in planning and on the day of the tour. Volunteers were docents of the 13 properties on the tour, and also sold tickets, drove jitneys, served refreshments and sold items at the Boutique. Others set-up and cleaned-up the tour area.
Special thanks go to the property owners and advertisers, Blue Moon Printing, St. Mark’s and Union Baptist Churches, Bank Square Books and The Whaler’s Inn, and the Ingle family. Committee members included: Cam Bertsche, Gail Ettinger, Joyce Everett, Tim Evers, Sally Halsey, Dorrie Hanna, Cynthia Mason, Linda McArthur, Barbara Tacy and Barbara Washburn.

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center Eco Evening Garden Party

MysticGardenClub — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:42:01 +0000

DPNS Eco Evening

Wednesday July 29, 2009

5- 7:30 pm

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center

eco evening garden party

at Enders Island

$25/Members, $30/Non Members

Our summer fund raiser honors the conservateurs & champions of green space and celebrates protected & flourishing local land, farms and foods. The custom menu will feature fine, fresh, locally-grown flavors – vegetables & fruits of land & sea, paired with wine, beer & teas in the lush island setting of garden, sea & sky.

Rooms and Blooms – A Terrific Success

Nancy Hevenor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:30:07 +0000

What a spot

Over 1,200 visitors toured the 13 properties highlighted in the Rooms and Blooms: A Mystic House and Garden Tour on June 20. Despite the fog blanketing the river during the morning hours, the 13 gardens and 7 homes were at their loveliest. The tour was an eclectic mix of large and small, old and new, professional and non-professional gardens: there was something for everyone.

A striking color of lilies

An estimated 100 volunteers provided visitors with a welcoming smile and friendly greeting. The Mystic Garden Club and the Mystic River Historical Society are grateful for the support of our visitors and our community.

Cape Cod Life Article on Rooms and Blooms

Nancy Hevenor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:01:25 +0000

31 Gravel Street - Colorful Low Maintenance Perennials

Mystic “Rooms and Blooms” Tour. Appears in June 2009 issue of Cape Cod Life

by Susan Dewey

Mystic, Connecticut, attracts visitors to the world-renowned Mystic Seaport and Mystic Aquarium. People are also drawn to the picturesque village center, which is filled with quaint shops, eclectic places to eat, and sea captains’ homes on quiet river-view and hillside streets.

On June 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., visitors will have a rare opportunity to trace Mystic’s development from a remote 16th-century agricultural community to an influential seaport when the Mystic River Historical Society joins forces with the Mystic Garden Club to host “Rooms and Blooms: A Mystic House and Garden Tour.” The walking tour will showcase some of Mystic’s historic and most unusual homes as well as some lovely seaside gardens. “Since this is a walking tour, people will have a chance to soak up the unique flavor and wonderful river views that are part of the reason why so many sea captains, artists, and early entrepreneurs chose to live in this magical area,” says Cynthia Mason, a garden club spokesperson. All proceeds from the tour will benefit the Mystic community.

The tour, held rain or shine, will wind along five closely located streets in Mystic village. Parking will be available at several convenient locations, and transportation will be provided for those in need. Visitors can start at any one of the featured homes or gardens. Many of the tour sites have an interesting historical connection. All are located on the west side of Mystic River (on the opposite side from Mystic Seaport) and are part of a centuries-old land grant. In 1654, John Winthrop, Jr. of Pequot Plantation (now New London, Conn.) gave a man named Robert Burrows a grant of 300 acres on Mystic River’s west bank. Following the War of 1812, a lucky fellow named Amos Clift acquired much of the Burrows property and began to lay out streets and house lots, developing the property into the seaside village that it is today.

A good place to begin the tour is at 15 Gravel Street, once the home of a cabinetmaker. This classic Greek Revival home with Italian Villa-style elements was built in 1835 and features colorful gardens filled with 19th-century plants chosen for tolerance to tidal river climate, including hydrangeas, inkberry holly, daylilies, beach grass, and Shasta daisies. Gardeners will also enjoy the homeowners’ efforts to give Mother Nature a boost by planting their vegetables and herbs in raised beds.

Further along on Gravel Street, several attractive gardens have been planted and continue to evolve. At #31, built in 1845 by local sea captain Thomas Eldredge, the Mystic River View Garden was planted with an eye to maximizing the peaceful view. Sturdy New England garden favorites such as shrub roses, peonies, catmint, and hydrangeas are flourishing in this demanding microclimate that is subject to saltwater and air. On the Eldredge Street side, there are three unusual, monochromatic gardens creating a dramatic montage in blue, yellow, and white.

Beautiful Interior

There are several more highlights among the tour’s 13 homes and gardens. Visit the charming home of Karin Soderberg, daughter of famous Mystic artist Yngve Edward Soderberg, at 5 Eldredge Street, and be sure to notice the small cutting garden started by her mother, Nancy, with donations from friends’ gardens. Admire a three-in-one garden montage on Pearl Street and Park Place that includes a low-maintenance shrub garden of heaths and dwarf conifers, a bountiful perennial garden, and a swath of eco-friendly grasses. The grape-arbor garden at 13 Grove Avenue features tough—but colorful—rock-garden plants such as alpine perennials and bright annuals. In the barn adjacent to this elegant 1853 home there will be a Garden Boutique where plants and garden accessories will be for sale and local landscape designers will share advice. The Mystic River Historical Society and the Mystic Garden Club will also have boutique items to purchase.

Finish the “Rooms and Blooms” tour with a flourish at 85 Clift Street, where a hard-working homeowner has spent years creating a National Wildlife Habitat—certified in 2008—for flora and fauna, including praying mantis, bees, butterflies, and birds. The owner has learned to provide individual microclimates for various species in carefully maintained planting beds around the property.

“Rooms and Blooms” tickets are available for $22 prior to June 19; tickets purchased on the day of the tour will be $30. Tickets will include a booklet showing house and garden locations and other interesting tour highlights. For more information, or to purchase tickets in advance, go towww.mystichistory.org or www.mysticgardenclub.org, or call 860-271-3980.

Susan Dewey is managing editor at Cape Cod Life Publications.

Steve Silk at Plum Beach Garden Club

Mystic Garden Club — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:21:11 +0000

Mystic Garden Club Members are invited to a fundraiser by the Plum Beach Garden Club in Narragansett, RI

Steve Silk will be speaking at their luncheon on Wednesday, June 17th

For More information about Steve Silk you can visit his website at http://clattervalleygardens.blogspot.com/

The Plum Beach Garden Club was started in 1927, and continues to support civic beautification projects such as the garden at the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum.

This event starts at 10:30 AM

Space is limited, and as in past years, often sells out quickly.

Reservations are confirmed with a $40.00 check made payable to THE PLUM BEACH GARDEN CLUB.

Please confirm your reservation with a check before June 10

LECTURE & LUNCHEON

WEDNESDAY, June 17, 2009

The Dunes Club

The Dunes Club, 137 Boston Neck Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882

Speaker: Steve Silk

The Crazy,Mixed-up border: an eclectic approach to design

$40.00 advanced reservations

Mail Check to Clare Northrup (401-295-8935)

105 Stony Lane

Exeter, RI, 02822