Berks County Horticulture Club

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Please feel free to contact us for information on club programs:
Pat Magala – email

Meetings are held in the Berks County Agriculture Center located at:    1238 County Welfare Rd in Leesport (off Rte. 183). For directions, click here.

2010 – Upcoming

June 17 – Native Plants Group – Trip to Promised Land. Meet at Moselem Springs at 8am. Bring lunch and water and wear good sturdy walking shoes. Contact Kathleen Neiman for more info.

July 15 – Native Plants Group – Goat Hill Serpentine Barrens (close to French Creek). Meet at Dairy Queen (Kenhorst Shopping Center) at 8am or Visitors Center at French Creek at 8:30am. Bring lunch and water and wear good sturdy walking shoes. Contact Kathleen Neiman for more info.

Past events – 2010

May 19 – Annual Meeting and Plant Exchange – Members only

April 26 – Spring Garden Tour Bus Trip – Jenkins Arboretum and Meadowbrook Farms.

Departure from the Ag Center at 8am. Cost: $57 per person, includes guided tour and box lunch. Registration deadline: Friday, April 16th. Contact Heather Ehrlich for more information.

April 22 – Hort Club Meeting at 7pm

Recession-Proof Your Garden and Be Aware of Invasive Attacks – with instructors Pat Mangas and Kathleen Neiman

Are you eager to get back to your gardens? Do you have gardening questions you'd like answered? Well, there's help ahead. Pat will offer tips on how to stretch garden dollars by learning to "multiply by dividing". In other words, by learning propagation techniques. Kathleen will expand our knowledge of invasive plants, hopefully so that they won't appear at our May plant exchange. Get ready for the new gardening season by sharpening your skills along with your tools!

March 13 – 15th Annual Home Gardeners School – Penn State Berks Campus – Perkins Student Union Building.

Keynote address: Liz Ball, garden writer, teacher, photographer. Gardening in PA is easier and more rewarding for gardeners, plants and wildlife when we choose to garden in harmony with our natural environment. Liz will discuss how, by creating this sense of place in our home landscapes, we also preserve our natural heritage and ecology and why that is important.
  • Time: 8am - 3:30pm
  • Cost: $40 includes boxed lunch
  • Registration: Mail-in registration only - no phone registrations accepted
  • Sessions: 14 workshops available - choose 3-4 sessions to attend
In addition to the workshops, there will also be a Garden Fair, raffle of garden items in the vendor area, and "Ask a Master Gardener" booth available throughout the day. To receive a registration form, contact Penn State Cooperative Extension at 610-378-1327.

March 1 – Philadelphia Flower Show – Bus trip sponsored by the Muhlenberg Parks Office

Come and enjoy the sights and fragrance of one of the greatest horticultural flower events of the country at the Philadelphia Flower Show. This year’s theme is “Passport to the World”. All aboard to the land of colors, textures, scents and sounds in India, tip-toe through the tulips in the Netherlands, see the natural wonders as portrayed through the vivid colors and patterns of the Zulu in South Africa, experience the heart of the Amazon Jungle in Brazil, see a tribute to the orchid in Singapore, and see the rugged beauty of the land with color and creations inspired by the wild flora in New Zealand.

Hundreds of presentations by local gardening experts rounds out the show’s winning combination of showman- ship and gardening know-how. The most exotic Flower Show in the world awaits!!! Let the journey begin by registering today – Call the Muhlenberg Parks Office at 610-929-1503.
  • When: March 1st
  • Depart: 12 pm from Kmart on 5th St Hwy, leave Phila at 8pm
  • Cost: $52 includes transportation and ticket to the Show
  • Register: Call the Muhlenberg Parks Office at 610-929-1503

January 14 – Hort Club Meeting at 7pm

Winter Interest Gardening – a talk by Guest speaker Claire Sawyers. Planting ideas to jazz up next winter's landscape. A silent auction will also be held; open to the public.

 

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