The Garden Club of Newtown will host "Tea With Sydney," featuring celebrated gardener, author, and Newtown resident Sydney Eddison, on Tuesday, October 25.

The program will begin at 1 pm. It will be in the meeting room of C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Mrs Eddison has written seven books about gardening and is celebrating the release of her second book of poetry. She earned a bachelor's of arts in theater from Smith College, and has a wealth of experience in the theater as a teacher of drama.

She has also taught horticulture at Cary Institute and the New York Botanical Garden in New York.

Mrs Eddison has received many awards for her work, including the Connecticut Horticultural Society's Gustav A.L. Award, the New England Wild Flower Society Kathryn S. Taylor Award, and Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut Bronze Medal, among other distinctions.

A Newtown resident for 55 years, Mrs Eddison's love of the English language is best expressed in poetry: Where We Walk: Poems rooted in the soil of New England (2015) and her new book, Fragments of Time: Poems of gratitude for everyday miracles.

According to Mrs Eddison, "Every poem is an attempt to describe the indescribable or delay for one moment the inexorable passage of time."

Copies of Where We Walk will be available for purchase during the garden club event.

The program is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted.

Registration is not required, but additional information is available by sending e-mail to thegardenclubofnewtown@yahoo.com.

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