Category Archives: Announcements
Harpswell Garden Club Wins Several Awards at GCFM Convention
A Visit to Hawk Ridge Farm and a Freeport Garden
On a beautiful June day, members of Harpswell Garden Club arrived at Hawk Ridge Farm in Pownal. Our host, June LaCombe, met us under an ancient maple tree and invited our group to explore the paths through gardens, field and … Continue reading →
Spring is Here, now Let’s Get Gardening!
Folks often mention that it must be nice to be in the garden club and take the winter off. Not true! While our gardens sleep, garden club members are planning their spring planting, browsing through catalogs and magazines for inspiration. … Continue reading →
Celebrating the Holidays with the Garden Club
As 2020 draws to a close, the Harpswell Garden Club has worked to make the holidays brighter. First, a few volunteers put together holiday mugs of greens. We couldn’t meet as a club to assemble these small bits of cheerful … Continue reading →
Garden Clean-Ups and a Celebration
As October winds down, the gardens get ready for winter. Early this week, a dozen garden club volunteers gathered in front of Harpswell’s Town Office to cut back perennials and get the bed in shape for the cold weather to … Continue reading →
Clean-up Day at Gold Star Marker Garden
Four of us made quick work of the clean-up of our Gold Star Marker Garden on a beautiful sunny day on the 22nd of October! Thank you to Mary Maroney, Nancy Kinser, Anne Taft and Suzanne Bushnell for getting the … Continue reading →
A Visit to the Garden on a Fall Day
The days are growing shorter, leaves are falling to the ground, but still, the gardens provide us beauty. This afternoon, I visited the gardens at Centennial Hall. Dahlias, cleome and zinnias still bloom. Winterberry and holly display their bright red … Continue reading →
Sale of Mums and Asters Exceeds Expectations!
Harpswell Garden Club members and the community of Harpswell really stepped up to help make this year’s scaled-down fundraiser quite the success! Almost 300 mums and asters were pre-ordered this year — more than doubling the total number of plants … Continue reading →
August Meeting Features Food Writer Christine Burns Rudalevige
On a beautiful day in August, a great turnout of members gathered at the HHP Gardens to hear Maine Sunday Telegram food writer Christine Burns Rudalevige talk about the local food movement in Maine. Christine, a resident of Brunswick, has … Continue reading →
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