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 "2022-2023 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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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
December 7, 2023 - Annual Holiday Workshop with Gerri Gibney - 7:30 P.M. at the Library
We will be making a Christmas centerpiece or a wreath. The Garden Club supplies all the material you will need to create a beautiful creation for your table or as a fit. If you are going to make a wreath, please bring three wire coat hangers to be used as the base. Also, bring pruners and whatever greens you would like to add to your creation along with any doodads you wish to incorporate into your design.
There is no fee for this Workshop for members, if you are a visitor, please consider a donation to defray the costs of the container, greens, and floral foam the Garden Club provides.
Every one is invited to this annual fun event. If you are planning to attend, please email Gerri at themerchantmouse@aol to let her know you are coming by December 3, 2023 or call her at 201 768-2615.
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"The love of gardening is a seed
that once sown never dies."
Gertrude Jekyll
Willowwood Arboretum
Monthly Meeting Floral Contests
Themes by Month
FLORAL CONTESTS
2023 - 2024
GARDEN CLUB OF HARRINGTON PARK
September 7, 2023 – Last of Summer…
October 5, 2023 – Falling Leaves
November 2, 2023 – We Give Thanks
December 7, 2023 – Holiday Whimsy
January 4, 2024 – Happy New Year!
February 1, 2024 – Hearts and Flowers
March 7, 2024 – Erin Go Brach
April 4, 2024 – Spring is Here!
May 2, 2024 – Bloom Time!
June 8, 2024 – Dead or Alive Poinsettia Contest
Let your imagination fly! Create a floral masterpiece and bring to our meeting - we love them all! - Fresh Flowers Only!
Garden Club
of
Harrington Park
Gerri Gibney
Gerri Gibney is a life-long passionate gardener who loves everything garden. She translated her love of gardening into creating the Garden Club of Harrington Park of which she serves as president.
She has lectured on various garden topics and led workshops for organizations and Garden Clubs in the area, and annually for the Garden Club of Harrington Park’s December meetings, creating beautiful unique arrangements and decorations.
She is president of the Harrington Park Historical Society, Director of the Advisory Board of the Arts Council of Harrington Park, still dabbles in antiques, for many years wrote a garden column “In the Garden” for three local newspapers, and serves in her church, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Closter.
A native of Bergen County, she grew up in Cresskill and lives in Harrington Park with her two cats; G3 and Victoria. She has written several books, alas, none of them published!
