August 2019
Message from the President
Greetings!

What better way to enjoy the fruits of our labors (quite literally) than in a beautiful garden with the company of our LGC friends! 

As we gather together in August, we will also be gathering enthusiasm and momentum for our September flower show. Keep those gardens growing and creative ideas flowing!

As an added bonus, it even counts as a monthly meeting. There will be opportunity for announcements and toasts. My first toast is to Frank and Andrew for generously opening their home and garden.

Cheers and see you at Frank’s!

Annie
It's a LGC Garden Cocktail Party at Frank & Andrew's House!
Members and their spouses are invited to a Garden Cocktail Party! 

Please join in on the fun...rain or shine!
Frank Fontana and Andrew Becker's Home
1747 Turner Road, Thomaston, CT 06787 
Thursday August 15, 2019
6pm-9pm

Please refer to the Meeting Notice for details
Flower Show Committee News
The September 19th – 21st Flower Show, Town Crier to Twitter, still needs volunteers for various small jobs. Please let me know if you can volunteer to help set up, move staging into place, or be a hostess. In the Floral Design Division, the following classes still have openings:

Class 1. Colonial Quilt – Filled
Class 2. Melting of Statue of George III – one opening
Class 3. Beecher Family Residents – one opening
Class 4. Fire Bell in the Night – Filled
Class 5. Camp Dutton (Men) – Open
Class 6. Picnic by Bantam Lake – two openings
Class 7. Topsmead Summer Cottage – three openings
Class 8. From Parchment to Pixels – three openings

Please register with Sara Gault

Thanks!
Ronnie

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THE FLOWER SHOW STAGING COMMITTEE has a special request for CLAMP LIGHTS. Note the picture. Members should include the brightest bulbs they own (60W equivalent or more; 100-150W is preferred). Members are welcome to drop them off at my house in a bag, or bring to the set up on the Thursday before the Flower Show. Each lamp should have the member’s name written on it with a sharpie.  Click HERE to sign up so I have a bunch of them. I need at least 20 clamp lights. 

If you happen to have any extra yardage of burlap, we could sure use it too.

Thank you so much!
Julia
Committee Reports & Announcements
Civic/Projects
Dale Ryan and I are very excited to spear-head the 2019-2020 Projects/Civic Beautification Committee. We would like to invite you to join the committee. Dale and I will be sending out upcoming meeting dates/locations soon - stay tuned. Please e-mail Lynne Sherman or Dale Ryan if you are interested in participating.
Thanks to all those who watered. We still have two slots available for West Street, 8/16 - 8/31. The easiest way is to Sign-up online , or you can contact Lynne Sherman

Thanks, Lynne and Dale
Garden History & Design
GH&D will meet August 7 at 3 pm at my home - 183 Maple Street. It will be our first meeting of new year and all are welcome. We will talk about new projects. Hope you will join us.

Horticulture
Susan Magary will be attending the Shirley Meneice Conference in Denver in September as Club representative. In that capacity, she needs to bring some special LGC seeds to share with the other participants. So, pack up your seeds, label them, and put them in a small, sealed envelope for travel. Please be sure to label your seeds with the botanical name (genus, species and cultivar) as well as the common name. You may drop envelopes at Susan’s house, 39 Fern Avenue, in a shoebox labeled SEEDS on the breezeway (unlocked). Just shoot her an email afterwards so she knows that they are there. Call with any questions, and thanks in advance.

Susan Magary
860 567-5219.
Photography
Everyone is welcome!!
Put on your walking shoes!! Cameras or not!!

We have two wonderful opportunities to explore parts of our Litchfield natural sites that may be unfamiliar to you. It seems that since we are social creatures we often put aside exploring new territory if we are just by ourselves. So let’s get together and explore the Bantam River Headwaters and Medicine Rock Trail with Berta Andrulis Mette on the morning of August 6th . We will meet at the Community Center at 8:30a.m. and return between 10:30 and 11. Then, on the evening of August 7th , we will meet at the home of Frank Fontana at 6:30 p.m. - 1747 Turner Road, Thomaston, for a Golden Hour Photography and Walk to explore Nystrom Pond. If you have already signed up for one of our classes in the photography division of the Flower Show in September, these walks just might inspire you to sign up for an additional class. We hope so.

Please RSVP at any time up to the last minute to Cathy at coneglia@gmail.com or cleso@optonline.nety .

Happy Trails!
Program
The Program Committee is always in search of places to have meetings and or workshops. We welcome your suggestions, and would be absolutely delighted to have members offer their homes for specific occasions. Please share your thoughts and houses with us!

Feel free to contact me with any questions or offers - Fran Devlin
From the Communications Desk
Images from the Annual Luncheon meeting are on the Photo Gallery page. Take a look.

Don't see something but want it posted or have a question - contact Joan . Need LGC information - use our website! It's all there and easy to find.

If you want something posted on the LGC Calendar, please contact Joan .
Upcoming Events & Member News
Come and enjoy a day of fun and education sponsored by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). The gates open at 9:30 and programs begin at 10:00. There will be barn displays, 80 field plots and exhibits, technical demonstrations, plant disease diagnosis, plant and insect identification as well as passports for children. The event is free and open to the public. For more specific information   Click Here
The Garden Conservancy Open Days
Roxanna Robinson - Treetops
On the grounds of a family Arts & Crafts house built in 1928 is an idiosyncratic hillside garden incorporating granite ledge, steep ravines, placid greensward, and a wooded slope leading down to a lake. The gardens themselves are separated into two areas.  Read More
Garden of Jane Garmey .
An idiosyncratic garden that began to take shape about twelve years ago and surrounds an 1827 house, shielded from the road by a row of 250-year-old sugar maples. Read More