Garden Club Preparing For Annual Greens Sale

The Garden Club of Newtown will hold its annual Greens Sale on Saturday, December 4, from 9 am to 1 pm, at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at the flagpole).

Members of the club plan all year for this special fundraiser by drying plants from their gardens and collecting pinecones and other items to use in decorating wreaths, swags, and table arrangements for the holiday season. Holly, winterberry, rose hips, boxwood and a wide assortment of evergreens are incorporated into the designs.

Tabletop boxwood trees, kissing balls, roping and bunches of loose greens will be available. Christmas treats for the birds, introduced and very popular last year, will be returning.

The main focus of the club members is to provide both unusual and traditional holiday decorations made from fresh and natural materials at great prices.

Noted Newtown author and gardener Sydney Eddison will be present from 9 to 11 am to sign her latest book Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older, a touching memoir that passes on the insights and wisdom of a lifetime of gardening. Although this remarkably entertaining and well-written book is intended for gardeners who are getting older, it is also a fountain of knowledge for anyone who has a limited amount of time and energy to spend in the garden.

The author of six other books on gardening, Ms Eddison lectures widely and has won many prominent awards for her work as a writer and gardener, including the National Garden Clubs Award of Excellence for 2010. She was recently featured on The Martha Stewart Show, discussing her delightful book, which will be available for purchase at the Greens Sale and makes a great Christmas gift for any gardener.

The Garden Club of Newtown uses profits from this fundraiser to contribute to the community in many ways, including scholarships for high school graduates through Newtown Scholarship Association. The club also maintains the gardens at The Matthew Curtiss House and The Blue Star Highway Memorial Marker at the VFW Post.

For additional information about the club or the greens sale, contact Virginia Carey at 203-270-1108.