Middlebury Garden Club Calendar of Events 2024-25
June 18, Tuesday, 9am
Sheldon Museum Garden Party
Our monthly party to plant, weed, prune, and water the garden during the growing season.
June 25, Tuesday, 10 am Postponed
Miller Hill Farm in Sudbury, VT
Come shopping with us to buy annuals, perennials and even shrubs for your garden. Miller Hill Farm will have their famous hanging baskets and well priced annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees. Carl Phelps of bonsai fame will help us find just the right thing.
July 16, Tuesday, 10am
Tour of Red Wagon Plants in Hinesburg
Julie Rubaud, the owner, will give us a tour of her large organic nursery. She offers many classes and specializes in all kinds of herbs and medicinal perennials. She has an interesting shop as well. Julie says we have a nice new building where a bag lunch can be eaten as well as lots of seating among the plants and in the greenhouses.
July 23, Tuesday, 10 am
Sheldon Museum Garden Party
Our monthly party to plant, weed, prune, and water the garden during the growing season.
July 30, Tuesday, 10 am
Garden Tour in Weybridge
See progress in a Weybridge member's garden. Lavendar garden, pomegranate, pear, peach, and apple trees; a formal English perennial garden'; hedges of boxwood; vegetables, and an interesting use of VT natives.
August 13, Tuesday, 9:30 am
Two garden tours in Middlebury
Tour one: A rock garden created after cutting down a row of beaten-up lilacs and discovering a beautiful limestone ledge, covered with very rich soil. This became the owner's pandemic project. We will see the stunning result and hear the journey of developing the garden.
Tour two: This work in progress is situated on a rocky ledge at the base of the Green Mountains. The garden beds are surrounded by tall established beech, oak, and pine trees which give way to varied levels of exposure from full shade to part shade to part sun. The owners will continue to mix and match plantings through trial and error in an attempt to compliment the rocky landscape.
August 20, Tuesday, 10 am
Large Garden Tour in New Haven
Join us to tour a private garden that gets better every year. There is a large variety of plants, many of which were new to us. Outstanding is the use of statuary in many ways amongst the incredible gardens. The owner works in the garden for 8 hours every day.
August 21, Wednesday 9 am
Sheldon Museum Garden Party
Our monthly party to plant, weed, prune, and water the garden during the growing season.
August 27, Tuesday, 10 am
Vegetable Garden Tour in Addison
Discover this enormous vegetable garden and all of the owners' growing and harvesting secrets.
September 10, Tuesday, 1 pm
Fall Mosaic Box Arrangements
Ilsley Library
A special session at the Ilsley Library presented by a member assisted by a local artist. Possible instructions to be provided in advance. Please bring your clippers.
September 24, Tuesday, 9 am
Sheldon Museum Garden Party
Our monthly party to plant, weed, prune, and water the garden during the growing season.
October 1, Tuesday, Noon
Creations and Donations
Join us for our annual lunch of soups, desserts, wine/beverages and bread made by members. You may bring a guest who might be interested in becoming a member. Members donate items such as food, including pies, cookies, spiced nuts, meals to reheat, special plants, special bulbs and new items in great condition. All donations for sale to those in attendance just before lunch is served. This event has once again become a necessary fund raiser for the club. All are expected to donate and to come.
October 22, Tuesday, 1 pm
Film: The Gardner (length 1:51)
"The Gardener" is a documentary film which reflects on the meaning of gardening. Influential gardener Frank Cabot recounts his personal quest for perfection at his twenty-acre English style garden in the Charlevoix County in Quebec.
October 29, Tuesday, 9 am
Sheldon Museum Garden Party, LAST CALL!
Autumn cleanup of the garden. Time to remove all annuals and do a final weeding and watering.
November 5, Tuesday, 1 pm - 3 pm
Workshop: Hand Building a Vase or a Garden Pot with Clay
Kathy Clarke of the Middlebury Studio School will demonstrate and assist as we use the "cookies" building method to create. There will be a charge for the clay used payable during the workshop. The event is limited to 8 people.
November 19, Tuesday 1 pm
Workshop for Holiday Decorations.
Build decorations to be used to decorate the Ilsley Library as well as tocreate arrangements for all of the other Addison County libraries.
December 3, Tuesday, 10 am
Holiday Decorating at the Ilsley Library
Decorate the Ilsley holiday tree, lobby, and balcony for the holiday. Make arrangements for each of the other Addison County libraries and deliver them.
December 10, 7 pm
Holiday Party at the Swift House
January 3, Friday 10 am
Take down all of the holiday decorations on the main floor of the library.
February 11, Tuesday 1 pm
Silvia Jope's 'Close to Nature' Landscape Design Talk.
Award winning landscape designer Silvia Jope will teach the basic steps behind landscape planning while approaching it through the lens of ecology and sustainability.
March 11, Tuesday, 1 pm
Sarah Salantino of Full Circle Gardens
As our climate changes, summers will be hotter and drier. Quickly falling rain can cause damaging runoff rather than gently soaking into the soil. Sarah Salantino will explore ways to rethink how we garden to prepare for droughts again.
April 8, Tuesday 1 pm
Charlie Nardozzi Talk on Vegetable Gardening
Charlie will talk about his favorite, guaranteed success, vegetables to plant.
May 6, Tuesday, 1 pm
Flower Arranging Demonstration
Jaga Amiechowski is the floral designer for "My Flowers for All Events" in the Rutland area as well as for Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden. She will create five arrangements. At the end of the demonstration, the arrangements will be auctioned among the attendees.
May 13, Tuesday, 9 am
Bird Walk
Wally Elton will talk about the area and what birds and wildlife we might see. Wally will discuss how you can contribute to bird conservation while enjoying birds.
May 13, Tuesday, 10 am
Sheldon Museum Garden Party
Planting of annuals and garden clean-up
May 31, Saturday. 7am until noon
Open to the public 9 am until noon
Annual Plant Sale
This is the fundraiser that provides money for our activities, grants, and scholarships. Each memeber is expected to donate a minimum of 8 plants in containers that are at least 4 inches in diameter. The larger the plant the better as size determines price. Please label your plants with light requirements, bloom color and height when mature.
June 10, Tuesday, 11 am
Annual Meeting and Luncheon
Join us for our annual meeting and luncheon and watch "A year in Review', our annual slideshow.