The Town & Country Garden Club has scheduled the first meeting of its new season for Wednesday, September 8.

The meeting will begin at 7 pm, at Newtown Senior Center, 8 Simpson Street, in the Fairfield Hills campus.

The evening’s programs, which are free and open to the public, will be “Pollinators and the Plants they Love” and “Pollinator Pathway.”

Holly Kocet and Mary Wilson will first showcase local native plants and the important role they play in providing for pollinators. They will also discuss how those plants can be incorporated into local landscaping.

They will then discuss the pollinator pathway and the pesticides, lawn management, and details on how anyone can participate in creating and maintaining the corridor of native gardens on various public and private properties.

Kocet and Wilson are active members of Protect Our Pollinators, a nonprofit organization devoted to public education and to the conservation of pollinators and their habitats.

The Town & Country Garden Club is the club that designs, plants, and maintains the traffic islands in the center of Newtown, donates to scholarships, and is active in many community endeavors, including a presence at the upcoming Newtown Lions Club Great Pootatuck Duck Race on September 4.

The club is always looking forward to attracting active new members who are interested in learning more about gardening. For more information regarding membership, contact Denise Rod at denisemarierod@yahoo.com.