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The Fearrington Garden Club promotes a greater interest in gardening, stimulates interest in conservation of wild flowers, trees and birds and increases concern for the protection of the environment. We meet every third Tuesday, from 3 to 5:00 p.m. (September-May).

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Results of the member survey conducted by President Bierhoff:

Calendar of Events for 2008 -2009

Please note that in response to a members’ survey the regular meeting time for the Club has been changed from evenings to afternoons. Meetings will be at The Gathering Place with doors open at 3:00 and program beginning at 3:15. Meetings will be adjourned by 5:00 PM.

Transportation for the proposed field trips will be arranged through various club members. 

Tuesday, September 16, 3:00 PM 
Program: Welcome new and returning members and “Soil Amelioration in Fearrington” with Al Cooke, Chatham County Cooperative Extension Agent and Jeanne Riddle, PhD, Fearrington gardener. A tour of Jeanne’s garden exhibiting examples of soil amelioration will follow the presentations.

Tuesday, October 21, 3:00 PM 
Program: “Bulbs, Rocks and Terraces in Garden Design, Recent Examples of Work” with Kim Powell, Landscape Architect and Professor Emeritus, NCSU. A tour of some of Kim’s work in Fearrington will be available following his presentation.

Tuesday, November 18, 3:00 PM 
Program: Holiday wine and cheese social and “Mail Order Resources” with Ruth Bierhoff, Fearrington Garden Club President for 2008-2009

No meeting in December

Tuesday, January 20. 3:00 PM 
Program: “Not Under the Tuscan Sun: How to Grow Mediterranean Plants in the Piedmont” with Frank Hyman of Cottage Garden Landscaping, garden design/builder and writer in the N&O, Herald-Sun, Independent and Carolina Gardener.

Tuesday, February 17
Program: Presentation by Jeff Baldwin of Orchids by Hank Chapel Greenhouses demonstrating how to grow, transplant and care for orchids

Friday, February 27, time TBD anytime between 8:00 AM & 5:00 PM
Visit to Plants Delight Nursery in Raleigh featuring Winter Open House with “spectacular displays of flowering hellebores and other winter flower plants” with proprietor Tony Avent available to answer questions

Tuesday, March 17, 3:00 PM
Program: “Wildflowers of the American Southeast” with Bobby Ward, PhD, native North Carolinian, lecturer and author of many books including “A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature” and “the Plant Hunter’s Garden: the New Explorers and their Discoveries”

Saturday, April 4, 10:00 AM
Tour of the estate gardens of Montrose in Hillsborough with Nancy Goodwin, author of “Montrose, Life in a Garden”

Tuesday, April 21, 3:00 PM
Visit to Central Chatham High School Horticultural Department to visit with the opportunity to buy plants at the greenhouse run by students under direction of their teacher, Julian Smith.

Saturday May 16 & Sunday May 17, times TBD
Bi-Annual Fearrington house gardens tour

Tuesday, May 19, 6:00 PM
Annual meeting with reports and election of next year’s officers and banquet

Board Members:
Ruth Bierhoff, President
Ken Talbot, Vice President
Pat Leary, Secretary
Mimi Woehrel, Treasurer
Catherine Miescier, Membership
Ingelborg Jelley, Hospitality
Dianne Birch / Orv Conner, CCHS Liaisons
Gresham Yeager, Past President

Reporters:
Alice Parsons
Florence Shapiro

Webmasters:
Forrest and Carol-Ann Greenslade

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