Upcoming Events List
Civic Beautification Project
Plant and maintain the Butterfly Garden and the Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens.
9:00 - 10:00 Butterfly Garden
10:00-2:00 Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens: For those who would like to, please bring a picnic lunch & beverage for noontime. This is a great way to be with your fellow members and meet new garden friends.
*Every Wednesday 10:00 - 2:00 gardening help is welcomed.
Garden Therapy Project Hope Lodge
A home away from home for cancer patients, Hope Lodge has been a BGC project since 1990. BGC members plant and care for the meditation garden and other gardens, window boxes and planters on the site to bring some colorful cheer?
Your help would be very welcomed!
BGC Summer Tour #3
Open to BGC Members Only
Bring a folding chair and lunch to enjoy in the gardens.
Special Club Meeting
Charlie Nardozzi is a Regional Emmy® award winning, nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, radio, and television personality. He has worked for more than 30 years
bringing expert gardening information to home gardeners through radio, television, talks, tours, on-line, and the printed page. Charlie delights in making gardening information
simple, easy, fun and accessible to everyone. He’s the author of 7 gardening books, has radio and TV shows in Vermont, speaks at venues around North America and reads
garden tourCreating Biodiverse Gardens and Landscapes.
Civic Beautification Project
Plant and maintain the Butterfly Garden and the Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens
9:00 - 10:00 Butterfly Garden
10:00-2:00 Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens: For those who would like to, please bring a picnic lunch & beverage for noontime. This is a great way to be with your fellow members and meet new garden friends.
*Every Wednesday 10:00 - 2:00 gardening help is welcomed.
Garden Therapy Project Hope Lodge
A home away from home for cancer patients, Hope Lodge has been a BGC project since 1990. BGC members plant and care for the meditation garden and other gardens, window boxes and planters on the site to bring some colorful cheer?
Your help would be very welcomed!
Club Meeting: Speaker April Cornell
12:00 - 12:30 Social time
12:30 - 1:00 BGC Business Meeting
*1:00 pm - Presenter: April Cornell: Topic: “Designing for a Colorful Life”
Since 1975 April has designed joyful and colorful vintage inspired apparel and signature kitchen/home styles. She will discuss how she connects with nature’s energy and how her love of nature inspires her colorful projects and work.
*After the Business Meeting, members will carpool to April’s home in Burlington.
THIS EVENT IS ONLY OPEN TO MEMBERS
Civic Beautification Project
Plant and maintain the Butterfly Garden and the Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens
9:00 - 10:00 Butterfly Garden
10:00-2:00 Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens: For those who would like to, please bring a picnic lunch & beverage for noontime. This is a great way to be with your fellow members and meet new garden friends.
*Every Wednesday 10:00 - 2:00 gardening help is welcomed.
Garden Therapy Project Hope Lodge
A home away from home for cancer patients, Hope Lodge has been a BGC project since 1990. BGC members plant and care for the meditation garden and other gardens, window boxes and planters on the site to bring some colorful cheer?
Your help would be very welcomed!
Club Meeting: Speaker Henry Homeyer
Henry Homeyer is garden writer who has written for newspapers around New England weekly for over 25 years, and is the author of 4 gardening books including “The Vermont Gardeners Companion” (Globe Pequot Press). He has worked as a garden designer and installer, and his own garden in Cornish Flat, NH has over 100 types of trees and shrubs and that he has planted in his 55 years of gardening there. He has tried just about every perennial that is hardy in his Zone 4 garden.
Civic Beautification Project
Plant and maintain the Butterfly Garden and the Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens
9:00 - 10:00 Butterfly Garden
10:00-2:00 Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens: For those who would like to, please bring a picnic lunch & beverage for noontime. This is a great way to be with your fellow members and meet new garden friends.
*Every Wednesday 10:00 - 2:00 gardening help is welcomed.
Club Meeting: Denise A. Greene
Denise is a Certified UVM Extension Master Gardener since 2011; she studied beekeeping and became certified as a Natural Beekeeper in Vermont learning about the needs and care of honeybees. After reading about the decline of native bumblebees in Vermont, she gave up her honeybee hives, began studying, and planting more native flowers, shrubs, and trees to help increase biodiversity and habitat on her property. As the co-chair of The Hyde Park Energy and Conservation Committee, she partnered with her municipality and Bee the Change to create pollinator habitat and replace lawns in her town of Hyde Park. She partnered with Pollinator Pathways of Lamoille County in 2022 and began co-creating educational events and projects for the county-wide organization’s membership and partner, the Lamoille County Conservation District. She enjoys meeting new biodiverse animals, insects, plants, and people that cohabitate in Vermont’s beautiful natural landscapes to the UK and Europe.
Garden Therapy Project Hope Lodge
A home away from home for cancer patients, Hope Lodge has been a BGC project since 1990. BGC members plant and care for the meditation garden and other gardens, window boxes and planters on the site to bring some colorful cheer?
Your help would be very welcomed!
Civic Beautification Project
Plant and maintain the Butterfly Garden and the Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens.
9:00 - 10:00 Butterfly Garden
10:00-2:00 Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens: For those who would like to, please bring a picnic lunch & beverage for noontime. This is a great way to be with your fellow members and meet new garden friends.
Garden Therapy Project Hope Lodge
A home away from home for cancer patients, Hope Lodge has been a BGC project since 1990. BGC members plant and care for the meditation garden and other gardens, window boxes and planters on the site to bring some colorful cheer?
Your help would be very welcomed!
BGC Summer Tour #2
Open to BGC Members Only
Bring a folding chair and lunch to enjoy in the gardens.
BGC Summer Tour #1
Open to BGC Members Only
This backyard, originally used for horse stables in the Historic District of Burlington, has been transformed into flower beds inspired by Megan’s favorite garden, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC. It includes a rain garden co-designed with the team at Vermont Stone & Horticulture, gardens for pollinators, and fruit and vegetable gardens. The home was part of the Burlington Rain Garden Tour in June 2025. The Epler- Woods will share their knowledge of rain gardens and Green Infrastructure with the club.
~ Bring a lunch and water to enjoy in the gardens. ~
Lemonade and dessert provided
Garden Therapy Project: Hope Lodge
A home away from home for cancer patients, Hope Lodge has been a BGC project since 1990. BGC members plant and care for the meditation garden and other gardens, window boxes and planters on the site to bring some colorful cheer?
Your help would be very welcomed!
Civic Beautification Project
Plant and maintain the Butterfly Garden and the Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens
9:00 - 10:00 Butterfly Garden
10:00-2:00 Grandma and Grandpa’s Gardens: For those who would like to, please bring a picnic lunch & beverage for noontime. This is a great way to be with your fellow members and meet new garden friends.
* Every Wednesday 10:00 - 2:00 gardening help is welcomed.