Nov and December Meetings 2008
Our first ever Harvest dinner and Gourd Fest was a great success. We feasted and then admired some really gorgeous gourds!! Our members are so creative!
The Gourd Fest winners are…drum roll please!!!…
Best Freshly Harvested Hard Shell Gourds – Mike O’Keefe
Freshly Harvested Ornamental Gourds – Cathy Raupp and Alex McVey
Most Gouracious – Sheila Kelly
Best Thanksgiving Theme – Gaye Almeida
Most Amazing – Connie Taylor
Most Festive – Natalina Mulholland
Fall Favorite – Lauren Hall
Our December meeting was focused on creating Christmas Centerpieces from fresh greens and flowers. Pat Porter from Levittown Flower Boutique and her helpers took us through every step and we made some lovely creations!
Our Hostesses for the future meetings are
Feb – Natalina and Connie, Lynn and Paulette
Mar – Eileen and Nanette
April – Alex and Matt
May – Connie
June – TBA
Garden Tour 2009 – Last years was a huge success and Eileen Donahue has volunteered to chair the committe this year. She will need some helpers so start thinking about what gardens would be good to include on the tour. Connie mentioned that there is a beautiful garden area behind the NBA Credit Union next to the Bristol Commerce Center Wal-Mart. Gaye told us that Gwen Shrift at the Courier Times wants to hear about the Garden Tour in April so she can plan to cover it in the newspaper.
Meeting with Bob Mercer – We signed our contract for the year and Bob asked if we wanted to expand our roll to include more garden area. I told him we would do as much as we could depending on the amount of volunteers we have available in the Spring. He complimented us on our hard work last year in keeping the gardens at the Nature Center beautiful.
June Flea Market – We discussed how it works and members are thinking about what we might sell at our table.
Flower Show – I mailed all the Barrier Aide requests to Betty greene at the Horticultural Society. Pat McGonigle has a meeting scheduled with them in mid December and will have more info for us after her meeting.
Our February topic is going to be a review of Winter Sowing!!! Save those gallon milk jugs for me!!!
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