National Garden Club Website & Blog

The National Garden Clubs, Inc. has added a blog to their website. You can get there through their website. www.gardenclub.org or you can go directly to their blog at http://www.gardenclub.org/news/GardenClubBlog.aspx

Going Green with fewer Catalogs

If you are overwhelmed with catalogs and hate to have all that paper wasted you can visit www.catalogchoice.org to choose which catalog mailing lists you'd like to be removed from.

Our Website is now at www.MysticGardenClub.org

We have a new location for our website - it is at www.mysticgardenclub.org Be sure to visit often.

2007 MGC Questionnaire Responses

The following is a summary of the results of the 2007 Mystic Garden Club Membership Questionnaire

By Barbara Ginsberg

Favorite Program

Carole King

Thames River Greenery Garden Rooms - Kevin Joeckel Herb Lady - Jodie Gilson

Peter Cummin

Hands On Demonstrations Holiday Decorating

Garden Design

Christmas

Garden Trips

Arnold Arboretum Back Bay Gardens Boscobel

Boston Flower Show

Bronx Botanical Gardens Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Carole King's gardens Chelsea

Clark Museum

Edith Wharton's house Elizabeth Park in June

Greenwich Garden Education Center Logees

Longwood Gardens and Winterthur Nursery crawl

Philadelphia Flower Show

Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Sod field

Sydney Eddison's garden Wild flower gardens White Flower Farm

Favorite Event

Garden Stroll- 32 votes

House Tour - 14 votes

Flower Show - 7 votes

Suggestions

Become more visible

Better wreaths

Better chairs

Better sound system

Better projector

Name tags in plastic casing

Name tags at Greens Sale workshops

Close Greens Sale at noon or 1 pm on Saturday

Pin on microphone for speaker

Maggie Jones for Hummingbird program

Judy Nickerson for a program

Start meeting between 12:15 and 12:30

Evening meetings

Younger members

Ice water with lemon in glasses at luncheon

Sponsors should know their duties

New member orientation and buddy system for 1 year

Involve new members to feel comfortable stepping up

Inform members of their responsibilities

Each member should be willing to chair a committee

Open and close member's gardens

More gardening activities

Growing rather than decorating and arranging

Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty

Field trips to improve horticulture knowledge

Work with other clubs for input

Did You Know?

The Mystic Garden Club will be celebrating 35 years, doing the annual “GREEN SALE”
The Lower Mystic cemetery depicts many chapters of our Country’s history. It is the final resting place of veterans from at least three wars. There are five veterans from the War of 1812, who helped to defend Mystic from British coastal raids. We are also honored to have 24 Civil War veterans in our burial place, including Medal of Honor recipient Capt. John Knight Bucklyn who is interred in the mausoleum. In addition, two Spanish-American War veterans are buried in the cemetery-Lucian O. Allen and William Lewis.
There are also two members of he California Gold rush buried there. Three young Mystic men, Charles Sisson, Thomas Wolfe and Ransford Ashby jr. came down with the gold rush fever and left together to search for gold. Failing to find riches, they embarked on a return steamer which landed on the Nicaraguan Isthmus. Ashby died of fever at Chagres, but Wolfe and Sisson returned to Mystic months later, in time to attend Ashby’s burial in lower Mystic. After a successful career as a sea captain, Sisson died in 1885 and was laid to rest not far from our Bradford Pear Tree. His stone bears a representation of a sailing ship.
The Mystic Garden Club has donated $1000 last year to the Lower Mystic Cemetery for mowing the grass there.

Welcome to the Mystic Garden Club Blog

The Mystic Garden Club blog is a forum for members to share gardening tips, activities and other information pertinent to the organization. It is brought to you by your Publicity Committee. Feel free to post comments and photos for everyone to enjoy.

I hope everyone saw the recent article in the Mystic Times on our Civic Committee. It featured a wonderful photo of members with some of the beautiful plantings on Main Street.

First Place by Hetsy Bisbee

We have been hard at work putting together this year's Annual for you. (The Annual was formerly known as the Yearbook). You should be receiving yours in the mail soon. Be sure to note the dates when you will be serving on Garden Therapy or hostessing a meeting. It is wonderful that so much planning has been done ahead of time. This is truly wonderfully organized. We have endeavored to make the annual as accurate as possible. But we are all human and apologize for any typographical errors that might remain.



Also in your mailing is a flyer on the fall trip to Wave Hill Gardens. These are wonderful gardens - one of the top 10 in the country. Visit their website to get more detail on their gardens. http://www.wavehill.org/ For more details on the trip click on this link www.mysticworkshop.com/MGC/

Please visit often! Feel free to comment. Nancy