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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.

Scenes of MGC Members Decking the Halls in ’24 

We have a number of Club Activities all centered around ‘Decking the Halls’ of our town for the holidays.  Please checkout the ‘Club Activities’ link to the right of this page to find an activity that might tickle your fancy.  It’s all in fun with, no experience needed, just a smile.

January Club Meeting

Monday, January 6, at 7:30 PM

Subject: Growing Citrus Trees – Essential Knowledge for Producing Your Own Citrus Fruit
Speaker: Barbara Melera

Of the many plants that you can grow, that last for years and years, that produce delicious fruit and heavenly fragrances and are beautiful to look at, citrus trees top the list. YES, they can be grown inside for you city dwellers. YES, they do set fruit inside. YES, the fruit does mature and ripen inside.

Barbara is president of Harvesting History Heirlooms LLC, a horticultural company founded in 2016. For 13 years, she was president and CEO of The D. Landreth Seed Company, the oldest seedhouse in America established in 1784, and the fourth oldest US corporation. 

See the January 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.

January’s theme is Petite Flower(s) of Designer’s Choice

Please see our Design Exhibits page for more details!

The holiday wreath/bow making events were a HUGE hit!

So much festive fun, laughter, and a really heartwarming community vibe.

We couldn’t have done it without our awesome Garden Club volunteers – they were lifesavers!

The wreath-making included over 30 members. They’re going to look stunning all over town this holiday season. It was so cool to see family members joining in too, making it even more special.

Thanks again,
Josie

Dickens Village Conservatory

This year, Marian Mulkern and Liz Demkin, assisted by Penelope and Alex Demkin-Dick, put together another creative and cheerful display in “The Conservatory” spon- sored by our Club. This year’s theme was “ducks” and there were over 30 of them represented within the struc- ture. In addition, there were lots of plants, carefully curated by the designers and chosen to withstand the temperature fluctuations inside the conservatory.