MONTHLY PROGRAMS
Held on the second Monday of the month, the Club’s meetings include a lecture featuring a well-known personality from the horticultural world followed by Club business announcements and a delicious luncheon prepared by member volunteers. These meetings are held at the Wilton Congregational Church (Pilgrim Hall), 70 Ridgefield Rd, Wilton.
Please note that monthly programs are for members only. If you are interested in joining the club and/or attending one of our meetings, more information is available on the Join Us page or please contact our membership chairs: Emily Nesmith nesmith.emily@gmail.com and Kathy Rosenbaum kmrosenbaum@icloud.com
The 2024/25 meeting date schedule is listed below and will be updated with speaker/topic information when available:
DATE: September 9, 2024
SPEAKER:Andrew Pighills, Principal – English Gardens and Landscaping
TOPIC: Stone in the Garden
Our speaker, who is originally from Yorkshire, England, is passionate about his English
garden heritage and the art of creating stone structures. He will discuss not how, but where
to place stone in the garden, and which material to use when creating contrast or harmony.
From steps and paths to direct or invite, through mosaics, follies, benches, seats, and other
whimsies, to ponds and patios to relax and refresh. His firm, English Gardens &
Landscaping, creates and installs award winning residential garden designs and
landscapes that evoke the abundant color and luxuriant verdure of English and European
gardens. They design landscapes to incorporate natural stonework and plantings
appropriate to the clients’ architecture, environment and lifestyles.
http://www.englishgardensandlandscaping.com/about-ushtml
DATE: October 21, 2024
SPEAKER: Mary Ellen Lemay, Director of Landowner Engagement for the Aspetuck Land Trust
TOPIC: The Green Corridor and Pollinator Pathway: Improving Biodiversity in our own Yards
With more than 43 states in various stages of launching Pollinator Pathways, this landowner
engagement strategy has taken the region by storm in only 6 years. By planting natives,
avoiding pesticides, and reducing lawn, this very scalable initiative has the potential to create
healthy, connected habitats for pollinators and wildlife as they move across the landscape.
The Aspetuck Land Trust Green Corridor, following the same core message, is a broader scope
of biodiversity, moving up the food chain beyond pollinators, with a focus that includes land
protection and stewardship in a 6-town study region. This is a new direction that brings our local
land trusts into a leadership role in regional conservation.
The Pollinator Pathway and Aspetuck Green Corridor together have all the ingredients to help
landowners supercharge biodiversity with simple action steps that can have a big impact. As
Pathways open up to Corridors, I’ll show you why our yards are vital stepping stones on the
journey to heal our landscapes.
https://www.aspetucklandtrust.org
DATE: November 18, 2024
SPEAKER:Carol King Platt, Member of The CT Unit of Herb Society of America, the past chair
of the Landscape Design Council of Connecticut, and is a member of the Wallingford Garden
Club.
TOPIC: Holiday Arrangements and Decorations
Carol was voted one of People, Places and Plants’ top ten New England garden writers. Her
work has appeared in The New York Times, Traditional Home and many local publications. She
will cheerfully demonstrate how to create easy beautiful Holiday table arrangements and
decorations from your garden, the side of the road, and Stop and Shop.
https://www.carolkinggard
DATE: December 9, 2024
ANNUAL HOLIDAY LUNCHEON
DATE: January 13, 2025
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