Upcoming Plant Sales

As we prepare for our annual Perennial Plant Sale on Saturday, May 26th, we wanted to let you know about two other garden club plant sales in May.

• Enfield Garden Club has a plant sale Saturday, May 5th from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Senior Center on Elm Street in Enfield.  They have many perennials including a lot of daylilies from a  CT daylily enthusiast.

• Middle Haddam Garden Club will hold their plant sale at the Cobalt/Four Corners Saturday, May 19th.

Let us know if you have more information on local opportunities to buy plants from gardeners by adding a comment to this blog posting.

As you divide perennials from your own garden, please remember to pot them up and bring them to our plant sale at the Congregational Church Spring Market on Friday evening, May 25th or early Saturday morning, May 26th, the day of the sale.  This is our one fundraiser for the year.  We use the proceeds towards the scholarship and general fund.  Help us make this year a successful sale with your donations.

April Meeting Tonight at 7 p.m. at EH Public Library

The clean up at the Village Center Gazebo has been postponed to next Monday, April 30th at 5 p.m. --or whenever you can make it that evening. Keep your gloves, shovels and pruners handy for next week.  And bring some pots and newspaper if you have those items available.  The garden club will provide trash bags, potting soil for potting up new divisions and a tarp.

The regular meeting will still be held tonight at the East Hampton Public Library Community Room. We have a lot of planning to do for the annual May Perennial Sale.  We also need to discuss civic projects to replace our upkeep of the Village Center traffic triangle and finalize details for garden tours and field trips for summer.

We hope to see you there tonight. The rain is supposed to end this afternoon, but it will be too wet to work at the gazebo. We can always meet and talk!

Gazebo Clean Up Monday, April 23rd

Pack up your rake, garden gloves and trash bags--

and come on down

to the Village Center Gazebo

on the Congregational Church front lawn

for the annual spring clean up of the two civic plantings

maintained by the

East Hampton Belltown Garden Club.

We could use your help:

"Many hands make light work!"

and you will enjoy being part of the work crew.

Wear your EHBGC "Dig It!" capris--or your best garden hat.

We will be dividing perennials for the May Perennial Plant Sale.

Come early at 5 p.m., if possible.

The Projects Committee will be there that early.

Otherwise, join us at 6 p.m. at the gazebo

Or later at 7 p.m. for the regular meeting and pizza

at the East Hampton Public Library.

We hope to see you there.

Call Bonnie Desaulnier (Program Chairperson) at 860-267-4584

or

Sue Hewes (Projects Chairperson) at 860-267-1269

with questions or for more information.