The Garden Club of Newtown will host a program on "Blended Gardens," to be presented by Nancy DuBrule-Clemente from Natureworks Nursery, on Tuesday, March 27, at 1 pm. The program will be in the meeting room of Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Ms DuBrule-Clemente's slide show will demonstrate how to blend flowers with edible plants to achieve harmony and encourage pollinators.

The featured speaker is the owner of Natureworks Horticultural Services, an organic garden center, landscape design, consultation, installation, and maintenance service in Northford. Started in 1983, the Natureworks crews and retail store have sold and used only organic fertilizers and pest control products since the business began.

Education is the primary focus of Natureworks. E-mails, handouts, website, social media posts and web videos, articles for local newspapers and magazines, talks to groups, and radio interviews all combine to spread the word about organic and sustainable practices.

Ms DuBrule-Clemente graduated from Ratcliffe Hicks School of the University of Connecticut with a degree in floriculture. She is the coauthor, with Marny Smith, of A Country Garden For Your Backyard, published by Rodale Press in 1995.

She is also the author of Succession of Bloom in the Perennial Garden, self-published in 2004. She is a former board member and past president of NOFA/CT and is currently on the board of the Connecticut Nurserymen's Foundation.

Garden Club of Newtown programs are free and open to all. If schools are closed due to the weather, the presentation meeting will be canceled.

Reservations are not needed for Garden Club of Newtown programs, but additional information is available by calling Club President Peggy Townsend, 203-791-8321.

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Nancy DuBrule-Celemente will demonstrate how to blend flowers with edible plants to achieve harmony and encourage pollinators during the next free program hosted by The Garden Club of Newtown. 

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