Business meetings & pot luck

Each year we have a business meeting and potluck.  Be sure to come and share your ideas.
(Oct. 2012)

Food table being set yum!

What should we buy? Many plants to choose from

Let the eating begin!

McLaughlin Vineyards ( club goes to Sept. 2012)

Hello Everyone,

Enjoy the photos below from the beautiful McLaughlin Vineyard in Sandy Hook where we had an informal wine tasting, appetizers and socializing out on the garden patio and in a special party room reserved just for our use. Writer and magazine journalist Eric Lehman and his wife Amy were our guests who shared about the history of Connecticut wines from Colonists to modern vintners. What a great time!

If you would like to visit the Vineyard: Directions:  At Exit 10 off I-84, follow Church Hill Road toward Sandy Hook and turn left onto Walnut Tree Hill Road. Follow Walnut Tree Hill for approximately 2 miles until you come to a grassy island. Bear left onto Albert's Hill Road. Entrance is 100 yards on the right. Follow long gravel driveway to the winery. There is plenty of parking space.

Gardening trade & swap annual event 4th Sat. am in April

• Saturday, April 26, 2014

  9:00 AM To 10:30 Am, this is only 1.5 hours long so please arrive on time
• Dickinson Park

  10 Brushy Hill Rd, Newtown, CT (edit map)
• Price: $5.00/per person

  Refund policy
• Trinity's and Newtown Horticulture Club 2014

  4th annual Gardening Guru's trade and swap. Trade your plants, bulbs, shrubs, seeds, books, tools, gardening related gems. What fun! Last year some of the goodies included: plant id tags, canna lilies, chives, sedum, lamb's ear, cat nip, false sea onion, iris, books, seeds galore plus+++++

  WHAT TO TO BRING: * Please label your plants and seeds, location, height, care, etc.

  * Organic preferred

  * Seeds veggies, flowers

  * Books

  * Tools

  * Gardening related items

  * Indoor or outdoor plants

  * Bring your photos to share with each other

  Admission: $5.00 Bring your items to trade. Rain or shine will be there, park has a pavilion.

  Email us trinity@trinityproduction.org

Open Garden

COLLEEN PLIMPTON
Her Open Garden Day is Sunday, April 15, 1 to 5 pm, 16 Starr Lane in Bethel)

Gardening Advice - Colleen Plimpton

March brought a heat wave, a hail storm, snow flurries, high winds and very little rain. But enough of that already!
It's APRIL at last and there is lots happening this month as our gardens are springing into life.

We hope you have your 2012 Yearbook handy and can refer to the double-page entries for the Horticulture Club of Newtown's April programs. If you don't have a Yearbook, please call Henry at 203-426-5675.

Be sure not to miss attending our Special Event on Thursday, April 12, 7 pm, at the CYRENIUS BOOTH LIBRARY in the downstairs public meeting room (enter from the library's back parking lot). The public is invited and refreshments will be served.

HELLO, MY GARDEN!

Our speaker for this special event will be COLLEEN PLIMPTON, garden columnist for the Danbury News-Times.
Colleen is an award-winning author with 30 years' experience creating and tending her own garden in Bethel, CT.
She will offer plenty of good gardening advice sprinkled with humor and maybe a little perspective on weird-weather springs like this one! "Show and Tell" is included as Colleen passes around her favorite gardening tools and a few neatly bagged composted soil samples. You'll be amazed at how black and beautiful and odorless her compost is!
She will also be selling and signing copies of her CT Book Award Finalist memoir: "Mentors in the Garden of Life."

Hope to see you there and don't forget, this time it's in the library and not the Meeting House.