Calendar of Past Events

2024

January 31  Members-Only Winter Potluck Hefner Park Community Center

February 21  Overcoming Fears of Pruning with Josh Demers, Brookside Gardens Horticulturalist        Location: Historic Takoma  7328 Carroll Ave, Takoma Park, MD   7:30-9:00 pm Doors open at 7:00pm

March 20  Gardening with Rocks with Thomas Crawley North American Rock Garden Society.   Location: Historic Takoma   7328 Carroll Ave, Takoma Park, MD 7:30-9:00 pm Doors open at 7:00pm

April 17 Green Evening with a panel of local groups focusing on environmental sustainability.

April 24 CENTENNIAL GARDEN Workday 4:00-5:00 pm 

May 7  Private Tour of Pope Farm

May 18 CENTENNIAL GARDEN Workday 4:00-5:00pm pm

May 19  Spring Plant Exchange at Koiner Farm 1:00 – 3:00pm

JUNE OPEN GARDENS Free and open to the public Fridays from 5:30 – 7:30pm Additional details will be on the listserve

  June 7  Diana Vidutis

 June 14  Betsy Scroggs 

June 21  No Open Garden

 June 29  Saturday 10 – noon EVENT CANCELLED Hopefully to be re-scheduled in June 2025 Special Greenbelt Mini-Garden Tour- Four gardens 

JULY 4  TAKOMA PARK PARADE  Join us for the fun! All are welcome!   Look for details on the listserve

Sept.7 Centennial Garden Workday

*Sept.15 Summer Potluck in the garden of Will and Theresa Ramsey

Sept.21 Centennial Garden meeting With Anna Mische John

Oct.2 Community Vegetable Garden tour with Howard Kohn

Oct.18 Leaders’ Fall Planning Meeting

*Oct.20 Fall Plant Exchange at Koiner Farm

Nov.2 Centennial Garden Workday

Nov.3 Mosaic Tile Stepping Stone Workshop with Nancy Newton at Heffner Community Center

Nov.20 Monthly Meeting Gardening and Environmental Activism: The New Gas Blower Bill presented by Kit Gage and Prof. Vivian Thomson at Historic Takoma

2024 Organizations supported and Events Sponsored

Green Matters Symposium

Friends of Brookside Gardens

City Blossoms

Friends of the National Arboretum (?)

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Jan. 22    Members-Only Winter Potluck and plant exchange Heffner Community Center 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:00

Feb. 19    Native Orchids with Carol Allen at HIstoric Takoma 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00

Mar. 19    Seasonal Interest Using Native Plants with Drew Asbury at Historic Takoma 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00