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Maplewood Garden Club at 97 Years and Still Going Strong!
Since 1927, the Maplewood Garden Club has been a hands-on garden club, open to the people of Maplewood, NJ and the surrounding communities. Meetings are held September through May at The Woodland in Maplewood at 7:30 p.m. and are open to the public.
2024-25 MGC Season
Our 2024-25 Garden Club year kicks off on September 9th. We have some great speakers this year, a new Design Exhibit theme, more trips in the planning stage and our usual club events. We are very excitedly looking forward to this season. We hope you are too and hope to see you at September’s meeting.
October Club Meeting
Monday, October 7, at 7:30 PM
Subject: Great Gardens of the Garden State
Speaker: Michael Gross
Join us on a virtual tour of the almost 30 New Jersey public gardens that are members of the Garden State Gardens Consortium. You will learn the history and unique characteristics of each garden. Discover more about your favorites and those you have yet to visit!
Michael has a bachelor’s degree in biology and accounting from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Marine Studies from the University of Delaware. He has been Director of the Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum of Georgian Court University 22 since 2001 and worked at Georgian Court as a biology professor since 1992.
See the October Club Meeting Event entry for more details.
GARDEN CLUB EXHIBITS THEME 2024-2025
THEME: Flowers by the Month: Flowers, Buds and Beyond
Each month a different flower or branch, chosen for its availability in local gardens and stores, was selected to be incorporated in the designated floral designs. The flower or branch chosen per month may elicit fond memories associated with each, such as, big chrysanthemums in November for football games, or red roses in February to express our fondness for others. Designers will draw upon their visions of what each flower or branch signifies to them and incorporate them into the scheduled design type for their skill level.
October’s theme is Berried Branches
Please see our Design Exhibits page for more details!
Community Projects
Columbia High School Garden Club
You may have seen our Facebook post where we expressed our support of the Columbia High School Gardening Club. They are a great group of kids and the Native Garden they created was featured in our Garden Walk over the summer. To show our support of them, MGC recently gave them a donation to support their garden and their activities.
Gardening Tips – September-October
September & October is the time to start your pruning and dividing. It’s also a great time to start that compost pile you’ve been thinking about. Turning food scraps and garden debris into rich compost is a gardener’s dream come true, has major benefits for the environment and helps fight climate change! It’s easy to get started, all you need is a small outdoor space and a compost bin. The MGC website has great tips and resources on Composting. Remember to save your leaves, you’ll need them for the right mix.
Also see our Gardening Tips pages for September and October. You’re sure to find them helpful.
