Summer Activities for EH Belltown GC

Lori Wilcox entered her boat in the Capt. Grizzy Showboat Parade on Lake Pocotopaug in August and asked the Belltown Garden Club members to join her.  Below are some photos of the members enjoying the day (after a weather delay!). The pontoon boat float had a composting theme.

 

That's a real composter on the back end!

Thank you, Lori, for inviting us to participate in this fun, summer activity

with a conservation theme.

 

The Belltown Garden Club also joined the Old Home Days Parade this past summer.

 

We'll use any opportunity to wear a hat with flowers and fill a boat or car with flowers. 

Thanks to Paul & Sandy's for the posies and Peggy for driving her car.

That's Lori hatless on wheels, rather than pontoons.

 

Sue Hewes, Projects Chairperson, held a summer meeting at the gazebo in the village center

to plan the renovation of the plantings there.

 

While sipping some wine and enjoying some finger foods, several members discussed what plants to keep or discard and what plants to divide or transplant in the fall in time for the plant & craft sale.

The Board of Education agreed to have the overgrown laurel bushes

and grasses removed from the planting bed. 

 

The beds are about 15 years old and the plants are overgrown so that they prevent maintenance of the gazebo (painting and repair of the lattice work). The Lions Club built the gazebo but it sits on Board of Education property (Center School). Paul & Sandy's donated hollies to replace the laurels and some smaller grasses will replace the overgrown grasses soon.

 

The Belltown Garden Club members also took shifts weeding the gazebo planting over the summer to keep it looking fresh.

 

 

Here's Lori weeding at the flag pole planting mid-July.

 

The flag pole planting grew from a Center School student project to a place where the Belltown Garden Club could plant some divisions from the nearby gazebo planting.  Now we help weed it through the summer to keep it looking colorful with bloom.

 

Sue also organzied some members to plant the planters at the EH Senior Center

 

and at the EH Public Library

 

with plants donated by Paul & Sandy's.

Similar plants were used in other civic plantings to keep a theme consistent around town

for the summer of 2012.

 

It's been a busy summer for members of the Belltown Garden Club.

We hope you consider joining us for the 2012-13 membership year

as we embark on another year of promoting interest and activity

in all forms of gardening, encouraging education to will lead to a deeper

appreciation of garden development, and when possible, to use

this knowledge to better our community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 2012 Plant & Craft Sale

We had a beautiful September Saturday--and the autumnal equinox-- for our fall plant & craft sale this year. This sale funds the Belltown Garden Club Scholarship awarded in the spring to a graduating senior at East Hampton High School who pursues further studies in conservation, horticulture, or any of the sciences.  Hollye Thomas was the chairperson.  She will let us know at the September meeting (tonight) if we made our goal of $250.

 

Hollye (in blue) and Donna Marsden set up the crafts table.  We had brownies and pickles, herbs and dried flowers in a lovely old pitcher, greeting cards, notepads and luggage tags and a yoga bag for sale--just to mention a few of the creative and crafty items donated.  Thank you, members!

 

 

We also had many plants from the gazebo planting.  Sue Hewes had a work night at the gazebo planting beds.  With the help of many members, we dug and divided Black-eyed Susans, Hostas, Helianthus, Siberian Iris, daylilies and Coreopsis.  Members and other gardeners donated several varieties of plants from their gardens to make a good selection of plants.  Again, thanks to all you donated their time, effort and plants to make this sale successful.

 

See you Monday, September 24 at 7 p.m. in the

East Hampton Public Library Community Room

for our membership meeting

featuring

Michael Corcoran

avid birder, conservationist and citizen scientist

presenting

"Native Plants for Our Native Birds"

 

$20.00 annual member dues will renew your membership for another year

of great programs and activities with the

East Hampton Belltown Garden Club.