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36th Annual Greens Sale

Mystic Garden Club — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:45:00 +0000

Preparations are in full swing for the 2008 Mystic Garden Club Greens Sale. Be sure to read the Mystic Times article – if you missed it in print you can see it on line by clicking here

Come and get your decorated wreath from our designers – it will be the loveliest you can find anywhere. Only first class materials are used and you can chose the motif that suits you – anything from natural materials to gold balls and ribbons.

Commercial on Thames Valley Cable

Mystic Garden Club — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Thames Valley Cable has very generously offered to run a 30 second commerical on their cable network for the month of May. This commercial will promote the Mystic & Noank Library Spring Fair. The Mystic Garden Club Plant Sale is specifically mentioned and photos featured. You can see this commercial via YouTube by clicking on the arrow below.
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Sound & Country Article

Mystic Garden Club — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:00 +0000

The Mystic Garden Club Plant Sale at the Mystic & Noank Library was featured in the Spring issue of Sound and Country. If you missed the article click here to read it.

Greens Sale Trimmings

Mystic Garden Club — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:09:00 +0000

For 35 years, the Mystic Garden Club’s main source of revenue has been from our Green Sale. This year’s production was unparalleled in the history of this sale.
Linda McArthur and Barbara Tacy built upon their experience as directors from last year to assemble a strong cast of players and materials with which they could accentuate their art skills.
Nancy Hevenor beat the publicity drum louder than ever before to attract new customers. Thanks to our new wreath supplier, Tim Black (Timbuck 2, 215 Flanders Rd. Groton), the fresh, well-bound greens were a pleasure to decorate.
Our Monday workshops produced high end natural tree trimmings which commanded higher prices and we were able to add to our normal revenue stream with the wooden swans supplied by Pam Arguelles from her husband, Roger’s, workshop.
The productivity of our presale workers was enhanced by the high caloric munchies organized by Candi Briggs. Mary Ann little did her usual great job to ensure that the advanced sale orders were received and delivered. Donations of wreaths were made to the Mystic & Noank Library, the Nature Center, the Denison Homestead, the Mystic River Historical Society, and to the Stonington Historical Society.
As we have recently seen on Broadway, no production can proceed without the stagehands, and Connie Blair’s group of tiers and wirers set the scenery for the main act to come.
Our two gleaners, Sue Johnson and Carol Conor, denuded the countryside of greens which Amy Bush and her staff made into sprays while Barbara Ginsberg and her team made over 100 boxwood trees which quickly sold out.
Amy also organized the pre-performance cocktail party and those who made the food outdid themselves. One of the bartenders, who seeks anonymity, even kept serving the parking attendant the next day.
Before the curtain opened, Pam Arguelles, Jane Bogden and Nancy White made up a beautiful array of custom wreaths for our stage manager Irene Trimble to display indoors while Shinny Stone and Cynthia Benfield worked outdoors cutting the gleaners’ greens into manageable pieces.
In the meantime Peg Maxon was cleaning up underfoot from the beginning until the lights finally went out.
After the curtain fell on Saturday afternoon, Diane Davis and her cashiers gathered the receipts together to discover that all box office records had been shattered on the 35th year of blood, sweat and tears.
Thanks to all of you who kept your covenant with the Garden Club to sacrifice your time and energy after Thanksgiving to help fund the contributions we make to our Community.

Gail Ettinger, President Mystic Garden Club

Welcome to the Mystic Garden Club Blog

Mystic Garden Club — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:30:00 +0000

The Mystic Garden Club blog is a forum for members to share gardening tips, activities and other information pertinent to the organization. It is brought to you by your Publicity Committee. Feel free to post comments and photos for everyone to enjoy.

I hope everyone saw the recent article in the Mystic Times on our Civic Committee. It featured a wonderful photo of members with some of the beautiful plantings on Main Street.

First Place by Hetsy Bisbee

We have been hard at work putting together this year’s Annual for you. (The Annual was formerly known as the Yearbook). You should be receiving yours in the mail soon. Be sure to note the dates when you will be serving on Garden Therapy or hostessing a meeting. It is wonderful that so much planning has been done ahead of time. This is truly wonderfully organized. We have endeavored to make the annual as accurate as possible. But we are all human and apologize for any typographical errors that might remain.

Also in your mailing is a flyer on the fall trip to Wave Hill Gardens. These are wonderful gardens – one of the top 10 in the country. Visit their website to get more detail on their gardens. http://www.wavehill.org/ For more details on the trip click on this link www.mysticworkshop.com/MGC/

Please visit often! Feel free to comment. Nancy