Nonstop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days

                                  Nonstop Plants:  A Garden for 365 Days

That is the subject of a very special guest lecture being
presented by the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club. 
The speaker is Margaret Roach whose name will be known to many
people.   Margaret,  after 15 years at Martha Stewart Living and a
decade each at Newsday and The New York Times, now writes the nationally
acclaimed blog A Way To Garden (dot com) and is author of the 2011
corporate-dropout memoir, “And I Shall Have Some Peace There,” about walking
away from “success” for a quieter life lived closer to nature.   Her newest book,
“The Backyard Parables” (published January 2013) blends garden memoir and
how-to advice.  “Eat Pray Love” author
Elizabeth Gilbert said of it:  “As a
passionate, hopeful and often self-delusional gardener (the only kind of
gardener there is!)  I loved this
gorgeous book.  Margaret Roach writes
with intelligence, compassion, and most of all—sanity.  Her work is a blessing.” Expressions commonly
heard each September like “the season’s almost over” don’t sit well with
Margaret Roach.  She has worked for more
than 20 years to make her garden in the Hudson Valley-Berkshires area a visual
treat every day of the year.  Meet the
plants and the philosophy that make it happen, delivered with a dose of
“horticultural how-to and woo-woo” 

The presentation
is being held on April 8 at the Woodbury Senior/Community Center 281 Main Street
South, Woodbury, and will commence at 11:00a.m.  Guests are welcome to attend
and should make a reservation by calling Anita at 203-266-0121.  A $10 guest fee will apply.  Guests should plan to arrive at 10:45 which
will allow time for refreshments prior to the presentation.

The Pomperaug
Valley Garden Club is a charter member of The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc. and
National Garden Clubs, Inc.  The Club sponsors speakers at monthly
meetings, garden-oriented field trips, numerous outreach projects in Woodbury, and a scholarship program. For
information regarding membership in the Pomperaug
Valley Garden Club, contact Pat at 203-263-4586, or Priscilla  at 203-266-4345, or email the club at  info@pomperaugvalleygc.org.