Hello, My Garden Talk

The Garden Club of Newtown will focus on getting ready for the upcoming season in the garden with Colleen Plimpton’s program Hello, My Garden on Tuesday March 22^nd at 1pm in the first floor meeting room of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library at 25 Main Street.

Ms. Plimpton will speak informally on how to prep gardens and landscapes for the growing season.  She will display useful tools and will discuss such things as deer repelling, cleanup, pre-emergents, birds, composting, weeding, mulching, preparing containers, unearthing dahlias, cutting down ornamental grasses, transplanting and seed- starting.

Trained at the New York Botanical Garden, Ms. Plimpton has tended her own Connecticut garden for 18 years and writes a weekly gardening column for the Danbury News-Times.  She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and also writes for publications such as GreenPrints, The Litchfield Review, People, Places & Plants, Connecticut Gardener and Toastmaster. She is a regular speaker and judge at Flower Shows and looks upon each day as a challenge and an opportunity to learn more about the wonderful world of nature.

Her garden memoir, Mentors in the Garden of Life, was published in May 2010 and has won several awards, including finalist in the USA Book News “Best Books of 2010” in the Home/Garden category and 3^rd in the CT Press Club Nonfiction 2010 competition.  It will be available for purchase following the program.

This lecture is open to the public, there is no charge and registration is not required.  For more information call (203) 512-7320.  In the case of winter weather conditions, the policy of The Garden Club of Newtown is to follow the closure decisions of the Newtown Public Schools.