Tag: New England Region

  • Friday, September 19 – Sunday, September 21 – 2014 Northeast Region American Conifer Society Annual Meeting

    The American Conifer Society’s Northeast Region Annual Meeting will take place at the Holiday Inn Rochester Airport, Rochester, New York, on Friday through Sunday, September 19 – 21. Rochester was the host city for 2004 Regional Meeting and several new conifer gardens have emerged to welcome attendees. Co-chairs Elmer Dustman and Jerry Kral are planning an event that they promise will showcase over 600 conifer cultivars including dozens of unusual ginkgos in the gardens to be visited. Program details will follow at  http://northeast.conifersociety.org/events/event/2014-ner-annual-meeting/ but save the date for a fall visit to Rochester when the ACS transforms the Flower City into Conifer City. Registration forms and meeting brochure will be published on the above website when available.  The Highland Park Pinetum will be visited, but for a picture filled preview of the itinerary, which will include a number of Olmsted designed parks, link to http://northeast.conifersociety.org//srv/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/08/Preview-of-Rochester-Meeting.pdf.

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  • Monday, October 17 – Tuesday, October 18 – New England Region Annual Meeting and Flower Show Symposium

    The National Garden Clubs, Inc. New England Region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) announces the New England Region Annual Meeting and Flower Show Symposium, to be held Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18, at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford (below.)  Agenda, tours and registration forms will be available at www.gcfm.org, and in upcoming issues of The National Gardener.

  • Golden Days Contest

    National Garden Club President Renee Blaschke has a project.  All incoming National Presidents choose a project, but this year Renee is trying something a bit different.  She envisions a country gleaming with daffodils each spring, and to encourage clubs to participate, the New England Region is sponsoring a contest.  The state that has planted the most daffodils per capita by December 1, 2010 will be awarded a monetary prize, an award ribbon, and a certificate.  A “Golden Days” project might include mass plantings at retirement centers, parks, playgrounds, assisted living homes, schools and public buildings – places to plant are limited only by your imagination.  Clubs will submit the paperwork, but if you planted daffodils in 2009, or are planning to plant next fall, keep track of those bulbs and let your president know where they were planted.   Remember Lady Bird Johnson’s wild flowers?  Texas is awash with bluebonnets as a result.  Beautification of our environment is part of the mission statement of The Garden Club of the Back Bay, so we are pleased to notify Massachusetts gardeners of this opportunity.

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