Madelin Chase Dafoe contemplates buying groundcovers at the Pine Plains Garden Club Plant Sale

Donna Croshier recommended the following books while presenting “From Rome to Gnomes” at the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Millbrook.

Isaacs, Jennifer. Quirky Gardens. Ten Speed Press: California, 1995.

Plumptre, George. Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice. Thames and Hudson: London, 1998.

Rooney, E. Ashley. Garden Ornaments. Schiffer Publishing: PA, 2004.

Rushing, Fielding. Bottle Trees. . . and the Whimsical Art of Garden Glass. St. Lynn’s Press: PA, 2013.

Smith, Linda Joan. Garden Ornament. Workman Publishing: New York, 1998.

Madelin Dafoe and Donna Croshier

Penny and Master Gardener Donna Croshier

Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, Donna Croshier, presents “From Rome to Gnome” to our club on Thursday, April 9th.

Weeding the tribute  gardens at Stissing Beach and Seymour Smith School kept us busy this week.

It’s a busy year for the Pine Plains Garden Club:

March 20: Sunprint/Cyanotype

April 10: Spring Luncheon @ Uncle Sonny’s, Stanfordville, NY

April 17: Third District Spring Meeting. Diamond Mills, Saugerties, NY

April 24: 10 a.m. Beach garden cleanup

April 25: National Arbor Day

May 16: 4 p.m. Plant sale setup at Eno House, South Main Street, Pine Plains, NY. Bring plant donations for sale in containers. Please identify plants.

May 17: 9-12 p.m. Annual Plant Sale. Eno House, South Main Street, Pine Plains.

May 22: 10 a.m. Window boxes, town barrels

May 24: 9 a.m. Cemetery planting

May 26: 7 a.m. Memorial Day sprays. Rae Hart’s house

May 26: 3 p.m. Tree dedication to honor Janet Adams and Fran Bradley. Town Beach

June 5: 10 a.m. Meet at Town parking lot. Stonecrop Gardens. 81 Stonecrop Lane, Cold Spring, NY. $5. Guests Welcome.

June 19: The Climbery. 201 Buckwheat Bridge Rd. Livingston, NY. 12:30 p.m. meet at Town parking lot. Guests Welcome.

July 10: 10 a.m. Falls Village Nursery. Meet at Town parking lot

July 24: 10 a.m. Alice Platt Gardens. East Taghkanic. Meet at Town parking lot

August 7: 12:30 p.m. Rae Hart’s home at Stissing Lake. Bring a covered dish. Flower sow final discussions, plant exchange.

September 4: 12:30 p.m. Mary Briggs Sanctuary. Underwater design workshop

October 9: 2:30 p.m. FFA Fall Festival/ Flower Show. Setup with team. 4 p.m. arrangements can be brought in. Stissing Mountain Middle/High School

October 10: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. FFA exhibit

October 11: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. FFA exhibit

October 16: Third District fall meeting

November 6: 11 a.m. Plant town window boxes

November 8 – 29. Festival of Trees. November 29, 4 p.m. auction ends

December 4: 10 a.m. Christmas workshop. Assemble winter sprays. Guests Welcome