SMGC member Carolyn Davis will be coordinating the field trip. More details to be announced.

9:30 AM Coffee Social

10 AM Specializing in flower farming in Maine is a challenge and an adventure. Jennifer Baecher, East of Eden Flower Farm in Bowdoinham, will speak on the varieties, care and tricks of dahlias. She will show us how to split tubers and will bring some of her tubers to sell.

11:15 AM Business Meeting

Join SMGC coordinator Katy Gannon-Janelle for garden maintenance at the Lois Murphy Kindness Garden.

Please refer to the program for details and times.

9:30 AM Coffee Social

10 AM Foodscaping cleverly fits edibles among our flowers and other plants is attractive ways.  As Nardozzi says, "the edible gardening trend reaches into personal lives and communities to help create a culture of growing healthy, safe food, eating better, and creating more livable communities....”.  Often the temptation is to segment the yard into areas with the edible garden relegated to a back yard... but you can combine edibles with almost any planting and still have it look beautiful.

11:15 AM Business Meeting

9: 30 AM Coffee Social

10 AM Linda Grant, SMGC member, will lead a workshop for all members to participate in groups creating a design to interpret one of two member’s paintings.  Plant materials and a selection of containers will be provided by the Program Committee.  Each group will utilize materials and containers to arrive at an interpretation of their selected painting.

11:15 AM Business Meeting

9:30 am Coffee Social

10:00 AM Andrew Tufts, the Audubon Horticultural Specialist and Landscape Architect, will talk on how to mix native plants with your favorite ornamentals in the landscape. 

11:15 AM Business Meeting

Marilyn Traiser and Sabrina Warner, both past presidents of St. Mary’s Garden Club, will demonstrate techniques for making two traditional holiday decorations:  a wreath and a boxwood centerpiece.

Please bring greens and a container.  Members’ designs will be used for Silver Tea tables and then taken home.

9:30 AM coffee social

10:00 AM A member of the Judges Council from the Garden Club Federation of Maine (GCFM) will talk about how to make your floral designs look their best.  The instruction will focus on conditioning fresh plant material, choices of mechanics, choosing a container, and the principals of design.  The GCFM hosts flower shows and encourages all members to participate.

11:15 Business meeting

Please refer to the program to confirm the details and times.

Join SMGC coordinator Katy Gannon-Janelle for garden maintenance at the Lois Murphy Kindness Garden.

Join Natalie Johnson, O’Donal’s Nursery Educator, to discuss all things houseplants, including growing outside in the summer, choosing the right plant for your location, care, pest management and re-potting. The presentation will be in the new, state-of-the-art greenhouse at O’Donal’s.

Meeting location: O’Donal’s Nursery, 6 Country Road, Gorham, ME

11:15 AM: Business meeting

Information will be distributed at the September SMGC meeting.

The 11 AM tour will be followed by a BYO lunch in the ‘Garden House.’

Information will distributed at the September SMGC meeting.

Join SMGC coordinator Katy Gannon-Janelle for garden maintenance at the Lois Murphy Kindness Garden.

9:30 AM coffee social

10 AM Ikebana Ichiyo designs explore every possible location for placing flowers around our daily surroundings.  Today’s program will focus on the Zen of flower arranging and explore Kapok, the way of the flower, the Japanese art of using floral design to convey feelings. Guest speaker: Sandy Leonard

11:15 AM Business meeting

Rain date - July 12.

Gisland Farm Audubon Center, Falmouth. The exact time to be determined.

Plant Sale presale, sale, and clean-up: 8:45 to 12:30