Gardening Party

A "Gardening Party" will be held on May 5th, 2007 from 10 AM to 3 PM. We are inviting one and all to bring their clippers, gardening gloves, rakes, hoes, spades, shovels, edgers, wheel barrows and a rototiller would be fabulous and help us prepare the grounds for the summer season.

The museum is also looking for help and donations for the gardens we have been discussing over the years. In addition to money we can use donations of plants, fertilizer, mulch, peat moss, top soil, raised bed frames and volunteers to weed and prepare for drying.

In tribute to Christopher Leffingwell's chocolate factory in Norwich - there will be a "chocolate garden" filled with Midnight Sweet Pea, Chocolate Orange Rudbeckia, Chocolate Viola, Painted Tongue, "Milk Chocolate" Fox-glove and "Chocolate Soldier" Columbine and more.

Also a modern "Pizza Garden" with Oregano, Thyme, Rosemary, Parsley, Sage and other edible herbs used in colonial and modern times.

Linda Greaves is currently researching what we will need to plant "A Garden to Dye For". A garden filled with plants that can be used to dye and paint material, wools and thread.

Also a "Colonial garden" filled with easy to care for vegetables, flowers and herbs.

If you can't help with the cleaning and the planting can you help us with the care the gardens will need throughout the summer and the bedding of the gardens in the fall? Can you sponsor the purchase of some of the plants or a months worth of the water bill?

Monetary donations are tax deductible and should be sent C/O J. Deming Treasurer, Society of the Founders of Norwich, PO Box 13, Norwich, CT 06360.

For further information and to volunteer for the "Gardening Project" please contact Beryl Fishbone, 887-9000. It would be highly advisable if you are interested in this project to contact Beryl so we can develop a proper plan. It is absolutely necessary to create a low maintenance garden that will not hamper the volunteer landscape maintenance crew.