President's Message

  A new year is beginning for the Long Hill Garden Club, and we look forward to an exciting period of time.  We expect a great year for our club while continuing to stay safe.

We will resume working on our various community service projects:  Garden Therapy, TECEC, Osborne Homestead, and Random Acts of Kindness to name a few.  Make sure to sign up to help on a least one of them.

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We are encouraging more members to bring in horticulture and/or artistic designs for display at our monthly meetings.  Remember, we are better together!

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We have a year of interesting, informative and entertaining programming lined up and we are looking forward to seeing you at our meetings, as well as our plant sale in the spring. 

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  “Growing Gardens of Natives” will be our theme for our second year in a row.  We will attempt to educate you as well as ourselves about some of the native plants found in Connecticut with the hope that you will add some of these to your own gardens.  Native plants are extremely important to the local butterflies, birds and bees. They are suited to our climate and conditions making them easy to grow and maintain.

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  Cheryl’s favorite saying is on a plaque near her garden which reads:

 

“The kiss of the sun for pardon.

  The songs of the birds for mirth.

  One is nearer God’s heart in a garden

  than anywhere else on earth.”

 

 

Let’s grow “gardens of natives” !

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Cheryl Basztura and Kathy Feller

LHGC Co-Presidents