Garden Club
of
Harrington Park
Harrington Park, New Jersey
The Garden Club of Harrington Park welcomes you to our website. Please browse around the site - we've got lots of good information including our monthly newsletter, what to do monthly in your garden, and pictures of the barrels the Garden Club plants each year under the "Downtown Beautification" button.
Just to tell you a little bit about us; the Garden Club of Harrington Park holds General Meetings the first Thursday of every month (except when otherwise noted) September through June in the Harrington Park Library (second floor). The meetings begin at 7:30 P.M. and include a lecture by a guest speaker on various gardening topics. Each meeting we have a floral contest, whereby members interpret a given theme (see below). We have a Field Trip at the end of our Club year, along with a luncheon. Our meetings are open to everyone who loves a garden and gardening. Please check out our activities and events for the Club year by clicking on the "2024-2025 Calendar" button. This is a tri-fold calendar listing our activities. Please print it and keep it handy!
To learn more about the Club, please click on the "About Us" where you will find information on membership and what we do as a Garden Club. Mostly, we have a lot of fun as a group of folks who share a common interest -- the love of gardening!
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Looking for a beautiful garden to visit in the Garden State? Click
www.gardenstategardens.org for more information on 19 gardens to explore!
SPECIAL NOTES
Would you like to help with refreshments, and you've never done it before, we are here to help you with all the details of what to do and bring. If you’ve been around awhile, you know the drill. Either way it is a fun way to help make our meetings very special. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Gerri Gibney at 201 768-2615 or email at themerchantmouse@aol.com.
Please send dues to Beverly Murray, 363 High Street, Closter, New Jersey 07624. Questions, contact Bev at 201 768-5651. The form to send your dues is in the link box at the top of this page.
UPCOMING EVENTS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!
All general meetings are held at the Harrington Park Library
10 Herring Street, Harrington Park, NJ 07640
7:30 P.M. in the Upstairs Meeting Room
September 5, 2024
Speaker: Nisha Khanna
Topic: “Container Gardening"
In this 1 hour lecture, Nisha will present the What? Why? Where? When? and How? of growing everything from lettuce to trees in containers, and will also inspire you by sharing a variety of photos . All aspects of choosing, planting, growing and maintaining the plants will be covered. Nisha will use her many years' experience in this area to answer specific questions and concerns.
Our hostesses for the evening: Irene Jackson and Bev Murray
October 3, 2024
Speaker: John Beirne, Curatorial Director of Horticulture & Facilities at Reeves Reed Arboretum. Back by popular demand!
November 7, 2024
Speaker: Robyn Lowenthal
Topic: "All About Coleus"
Robyn runs a therapeutic horticulture program for developmentally disabled adults. She enjoys growing tropicals, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and vegetables and is passionate about plant propagation. PowerPoint presentation covers the history of coleus, tips for growing gorgeous coleus, different types of coleus, coleus propagation, designing with coleus, and dealing with insects and diseases that affect our coleus plants.
November 17, 2024 – 2:00 P.M.
“Make It and Take It Thanksgiving Workshop,” registration required, all material supplied by Club to complete your masterpiece. Fee and more information coming! Check back for details!
December 5, 2024
“Holiday Make It and Take It Workshop” conducted by Gerri Gibney. Bring pruners and “do-dads” to create a fabulous creation! Greens and containers provided by Club.
Visit Willowwood Arboretum on the web - a great garden, and a wonderful newsletter! Just click below.
"The love of gardening is a seed
that once sown never dies."
Gertrude Jekyll
Willowwood Arboretum
Garden Club
of
Harrington Park
Nisha Khanna is a certified landscape designer and garden coach/consultant who runs her business "Growing Gardens" in Edison, NJ. She has been designing residential gardens for 9 years, and is also the estate manager for a large private garden. She practices and teaches sustainable and organic land care practices, and is obsessed with all things related to plants and trees, and birds and bees.
If you missed our plant sale this year, here are pictures from Esther Ross of some of her purchases - aren't they spectacular!
If you would like to share some of your successes, please send them along!
