Spring Forward, Get Ready To Garden

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, at 1 pm, in meeting room of Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street in Newtown.

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. 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. Her garden memoir, Mentors in the Garden of Life, was published in May 2010 and has won several awards.

Ms Plimpton is also a regular speaker and judge at flower shows.

The 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.