September 23, 2025
Board Meeting: 10:00
Club Meeting: 12:00
Program: 1:00 pm—bring your own lunch
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Meet & Greet
Come enjoy lunch with fellow members and have a chance to catch up with friends, share travel and gardening, from the summer and meet new members. Committee chairs will share information about club activities and upcoming events.
DESIGN DISPLAY TABLE: Designer’s choice of traditional or creative designs
HORTICULTURE DISPLAY TABLE: One cut stem of chrysanthemum, Shasta daisy, yarrow, lantana, grasses, roses
Raffle Centerpiece: Peggy Townsend
Desserts: Joan Palubniak & Vicki Boccuzzi
October 28, 2025
Board Meeting: 10:00
Club Meeting: 12:00–bring your own lunch
Program 1:00 pm
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Transform Your Health with Herbs
Presenter: Alyssa Mancini, Owner of Herbs, Love & Yoga in Sandy Hook.
Alyssa will offer ideas on which herbs to grow and the best methods for success.
She will also discuss the connection between medicinal herbs, health, and the
benefits of yoga. For those who would like to try chair yoga, she will lead a brief demonstration of the practice of chair yoga.
DESIGN DISPLAY TABLE: underwater design
HORTICULTURE DISPLAY TABLE: One cut stem of andromeda,
Leucothoe, gold cedar, or house plant grown for foliage
Raffle Centerpiece: Vicki Boccuzzi
Desserts: Paula Toi & Sue Greco
Tuesday, November 4, 2024 at 10:00 am
Program: Greens Sale Workshop
Vicki Boccuzzi’s home: 57 Queen St., Newtown
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
This is the opportunity to make the items that help to make the Greens Sale such a success! There will be instruction on how to make items.
Ask past participants…it’s a fun time!
Tuesday November 18, 2025
Board Meeting: 10:00
Joan Alexander’s home: 29 Parmalee Hill Road, Newtown
All member holiday lunch at 12:00 noon
The Ranch
160 South Main St
Newtown, CT
Thursday, Dec. 4 & Friday, Dec 5, 2025
Program: Greens Sale Workshops, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Newtown Congregational Church, Newtown, CT
Club members of all skill levels create decorations for the Holiday Greens & Gifts Sale held at the Congregational Church on West Street.
Thursday we focus on kissing balls, boxwood trees, and centerpieces & specialty items. Members are needed to cut fresh greens into smaller pieces and to create and share their talents, ideas and suggestions. This fun and productive workshop creates one-of-a-kind sale items as well as fellowship.
Friday we decorate pre-made wreaths with fresh greens collected by members, and add bows, pinecones, and handmade ornaments. Members also write price tags, package small items, and add string lights and bows to finish creations.
Thursday Soups by: Louise Zierzow & Joan Alexander
Friday Soups by: Linda Dunn & Joyce DeWolfe
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Greens & Gifts Sale
9:00-12:00 pm
Newtown Congregational Church, Newtown, CT
Welcome family, friends, and neighbors to support our annual sale. Plan to join us, many hands are needed with setup, sales, transport, supplies, and cleanup. All club members are encouraged to attend and support our most important annual fundraiser, as many people in town, and others rely on us for holiday wreaths, decorations, and gifts.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Board meeting 10:00 am
Club Meeting 12:00 pm–bring your own lunch
Program: 1:00 pm
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Hope Sim will provide an overview of our refreshed website
DESIGN DISPLAY TABLE: Artistic Crafts (decorate a hat, box, shoe with fresh or dried plant material
HORTICULTURE DISPLAY TABLE: Holly, evergreen branches, air plant. Succulent or cactus or fern
Raffle Centerpiece: Paula Toi
Desserts: Louise Zierzow & Sandy Stromberg
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Board meeting: 10:00 am
Club Meeting: 12:00 pm—bring your own lunch
Program: 1:00 pm
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Victory Garden II
Presented by Louise Zierzow and Jeannette DelVento
These two experienced Garden Club of Newtown gardeners have taken the lead in designing and creating the Victory Garden at Fairfield Hills in Newtown. They will continue the conversation they started in 2025 about which vegetables and herbs do the best in the garden soil they have tailored for the sunny site.
The public is invited to share their own observations about gardening in their yard.
DESIGN DISPLAY TABLE: Parallel Design
HORTICULTURE DISPLAY TABLE: Terrarium, Topiary, dish Garden, herbs, orchid
Raffle Centerpiece: Mary Liscinsky
Desserts: Vicky Taloni & Jeannette DelVento
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Board meeting: 10:00 am
Club Meeting: 12:00 pm
Program: 1:00 pm
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Make Your Own Spring Centerpiece: Teaching Design Principals
Presenter: Peggy Townsend
Peggy, an award-winning floral designer will share her knowledge of creating a floral centerpiece for the April holiday season. Peggy will teach principles of floral design. Members will bring their own containers and are invited to choose from flowers provided by the club and selected by Peggy.
A modest fee is required.
DESIGN DISPLAY TABLE: Peggy’s creative holiday examples
HORTICULTURE DISPLAY TABLE: pussy willows, Lenten rose, African violet, Begonia
Raffle Centerpiece: Mary Thomas
Desserts: Mary Thomas & Mary Liscinsky
April 21—April 23, 2025
Newtown Community Center, 8 Simpson St. Newtown, CT
“April in Bloom” Flower Show
This flower show will be an opportunity for all our members to shine and showcase what we do. We will be presenting an NGC Standard Flow Show celebrating our 71 years as a garden club serving the Newtown community.
Our club was founded in 1955 with a mission to promote interest in horticulture, floral design, conservation, and civic beauty. The show will exhibit creative floral design, horticulture exhibits, and educational displays for ‘Beeing Resilient” in gardening.
This three-day event promises to be fun, educational, and a great opportunity to introduce the public to our membership, our service and the comradery we share.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Board Meeting: 10:00 am
Club Meeting: 12:00 pm–bring your own lunch
Program: 1:00 pm
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Bats are the Best Presenter
Presenter: White Memorial speaker
The speaker will present a video showing the many functions of bats in the important work of plant pollination. Positive facts about bats will be emphasized in order to counter negative notions about the bat population. Bats are considered super pollinators.
DESIGN DISPLAY TABLE: One cut stem of daffodil, tulip Lenten rose, grape hyacinth, forsythia
HORTICULTURE DISPLAY TABLE: Plants and herbs in preparation for our plant sale.
Raffle Centerpiece: Vicky Taloni
Desserts: Eileen Holleran & Joan Alexander
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Plant Sale
Front lawn of the C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, Newtown, CT
9 am to 12:00 noon
We will be selling native plants, perennials, herbs and vegetable seedlings, grown and donated by Club members.
Proceeds benefit our Scholarship Fund & other club
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Board Meeting: 10:00 am
Club Meeting: 12:00 pm–bring your own lunch
Election of Officers
Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Newtown
Program: Gardening with Heart
Presenter: Maureen Hogan Lutz
Ms. Lutz, author of a garden book titled “Gardening with Heart” will speak about her beliefs that gardening has a role in calming and enriching the gardener’s life, while demystifying the intimidation factor for the beginner. She will share a video with highlights of her gardening journey.
Raffle Centerpiece: Vicki Boccuzzi
Desserts: Doris Naughton & Connie Urso
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
End-of-Club Year Potluck Picnic
Board meeting: 10:00 am for year-end review
Club Meeting: 12:00 Noon with swearing in of new Officers
Vicki Boccuzzi’s home at 57 Queen St, Newtown
Bring an entrée or salad to share. Dessert and drinks will provided.
