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The Chatham Garden Club of Chatham, Massachusetts
On Tuesday, April 17, 1968, 29 women met to form the Garden Club of Chatham.
From the start the Club helped to make the town bloom. Membership was
at first limited to 50 people, and now our Club has 200 active and honorary
members and 50 sustaining members.
In 2000, the Chatham Chamber of Commerce awarded its first Citizen of the Year award to our Club. Over the years, we labeled trees in Chase Park, gave away tree seedlings on Arbor Day, helped fund the Chatham Friends of Trees, and embarked on an ambitious project, the Kousa Dogwood Tree Beautification Program, aimed at lining Route 28 from Harwich to Shore Road with dogwood trees. The Club gave over 100 trees to the town and when the plantings were finished, the trees spread their snowy branches throughout the town and continue the show each June, adding to the beauty of this place.
Over the years, our members have worked hard and had lots of fun doing flower shows, tours of homes and gardens, the Christmastime Festival of Trees, the Garden Club Market at the Creative Arts Center's Annual August Festival, and a cookbook called Tea By the Sea. The golden welcome of dozens of daffodils we've planted throughout town are evidence of the work and fun our members have enjoyed over the years.
The Chatham Garden Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month at the Chatham Community Center, 702 Main Street at 12:30 p.m. for Friendship and Refreshments, and 1:00 to 2:30 for the Business Meeting and Program.
Meeting cancellations will be announced on Radio Stations WQRC-FM and WFCC-FM. If schools are closed, the Club meeting will automatically be canceled.
2011 -2012 Programs
October 18, 2011
The Japanese Garden - A Different Kind of Garden
Fly away to Japan with Sharon Oudemool. Sharon will be sharing her knowledge
of Japanes gardens with us. Come and experience a different type of garden.
Hostess: Martha Burian
Centerpiece: Fleur Jones
Committee: Carol Christopher, Carol Kolb, Marge Scheck, Ruth Steeger,
Carol Millis, Judie Stolp, Alice Duthie
November 15, 2011
Parade Float Anyone?
Did you know that the Garden Club will be having a float in the July Fourth
Parade in 2012? Shelley Cantor and Jean Rosseau have helped with a Rose
Bowl Parade Float. They will take us step by step through the process.
Come and get some fantastic ideas.
Hostess: Martha Burian
Centerpiece: Joanne Donaghue
Committee: Carol Knapp, Ann Bulkley, Judy Buchanan, Beth Holden,
Regina Townsend, Jane Harris, Ruth Norman.Stephanie Bartlett, Edie Tuxbury,
Linda Smith, Eileen Gibb, Pam Patton, Ruth Tichenor, Jean Dana
January 18, 2012
A Lesson in Floral Basket Arrangements
Do you have lots of baskets floating around your house? Sonny Gada will
show us how to arrange flowers in some of them. Bouquets will be raffled
off at the end of the meeting.
Hostess: Pinkie Scarlatelli
Centerpiece: Norma Wagner
Committee: Carol Knapp, Ann Bulkley, Judy Buchanan, Beth Holden,
Regina Townsend, Jane Harris, Ruth Norman.
February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine Day
Today Gayle Condit will be delving into Sailors' Valentines - made out
of shells. Come and see how intricate flowers are formed with these shells.
No, sailors did not make them.
Hostess: Margaret Stenberg
Centerpiece: Anne O'Brien
Committee: Marie Acton, Eleanor Oakley, Coleen Kolp, Marie Becker,
Rita McGill, Judy Doe, Tilda Bystrom
March 20, 2012
Terrarium Gardening
Come and learn another way to garden. Jeff Sawyer of Verdi Floral
Design in Mashpee Commons will be here to make and care for a terrarium
garden.
Hostess: Pinky Scarlatelli
Centerpiece: Kristine Etter-Foster
Committee: Mary Ann Gray, Stephanie Bartlett, Nancy Groves, Nancy
Kucera, GerriDiCristina, Mary Cooper, Eunice Geist
April 17, 2012
Success with Orchids
Have you ever wondered how to get an orchid to bloom again? Today Tina
Balog is going to share all of her secrets about orchids with us.
Hostess: Pinky Scarlatelli
Centerpiece: Alice Duthie
Committee: Winnie Lear, Jacqueline Hirst, Betsey Evans, Mickey
Bullock, Stephanie Hamilton, Stacy Morgano, Evelyn Ambriscoe
May 15, 2012
Black Gold!
Gold! No, this is not about the gold rush. Sylvia Wahl is going to tell
us about black gold. In some ways this is more valuable to gardeners than
yellow gold. Come and find out all you ever wanted to know about composting.
Today is also "Hat Day" with awards given for the most elegant,
whimsical and creative.
Hostess: Pinky Scarlatelli
Centerpiece: Tilda Bystrom
Committee: Brenda Fielding, Eileen Gibb, Nancy Alger, Barbara Blanchard,
Carol Wister, Pat Duffy, Beverly Collins
June 19, 2012
The Annual Garden Tour
Come and tour Sylvan Gardens. Our tour guide will be Lara Slifka, the
Chatham assistant conservations agent! It is unbelievable that this is
right in our neighborhood. Refreshments will be served.
Hostesses: Pinky Scarlatelli, Martha Burian
Committee: Betty Schiller, Sharon Cruickshank, Erica De Zitter,
Cheri Mann, Joanne Lowre, Regina McDowell, Ruth Tichenor
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