The Plymouth Garden Club will hold their monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 14, at 1:00 pm, at the Chiltonville Congregational Church. The principal speaker will be Mike Paduch, owner of Crystal Lake Greenhouses in Plymouth and Carver. He will speak on his passion for growing begonias and their care. He will also bring a variety of annuals with him.
Mike holds a degree in horticulture from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture-UMass Amherst and has been growing plants in his family business for 50 years.
A traditional English tea will be served after the meeting. Guests are welcome to attend for $5.00 fee.
Many Volunteers worked hard on this year’s annual Greens Sale. It was a great success!
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- Library display
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- Wooden box arrangements
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- Wreaths
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- Table arrangements
These are some of the creative designs by Plymouth Garden Club members at the annual Art in Bloom, held in the Plymouth Center for the Arts.
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- Geri Williams, winner of the popular vote
DIVISION I – Horticulture
“Plymouth’s Bountiful Land”
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- Rebecca Freer First Place and the Award of Horticultural Excellence for her Herb Planter Dish
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- Jean Dobachesky First Place and the Arboreal Award for her Umbrella Pine
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- Linda O’Neil First Place and Grower’s Choice Award for her Red Mezoo plant
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- Dahlias
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- Zinnias
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- Vegetables
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- Dragon Wing Red Begonia
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- Sedum
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- Montauk Daisy
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- Evergreens
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- Foliage
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- Evergreens
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- Container Plants
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- Herb Planter Dishes
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- Dahlias
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- dahlias
DIVISION II – Design
“Our Heritage Inspires Our Designs”
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- Class I – Cascade Town Brook Running Free
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- Nancy Carafoli 1st Place Designer’s Choice and Best In Show
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- Geri Williams 2nd Place
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- Colleen Costa 3rd Place
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- Jean Dobachesky Honorable Mention
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- Class II- Mass Design The Oceans Moods and Colors Inspire
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- Marge Galletta 1st Place
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- Judy MacDonald 2nd Place (90+) and Betty Award
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- Gail Conner 3rd
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- Katherine Angley Honorable Mention
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- Class III – Creative Design Plymouth Beach Is A Natural Gem
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- Pat Parker 1st Place
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- Natalie Caramello 2nd Place
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- Liz Hester 3rd Place
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- Servane Rogers Honorable Mention
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- Class IV – Table Settings Thanksgiving Traditions
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- Patty O’Brien 1st Place
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- Crystal Payne 2nd Place and Jini Award
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- Jeanne Burnell 3rd Place
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- Linda O’Neil Honorable Mention
CONGRATULATIONS to all our Club Members who participated in our
successful “Plymouth – Celebrating 400+ Years” Flower Show.
It is a beautiful show, everyone who saw it Friday loved it. The 6 GCFM
accredited judges were all very impressed with and very complimentary of
our show. They were pleased with the number of specimens and quality of the
104 Horticulture exhibits. There were many blue ribbons awarded.
Each section of Horticulture offered a top Horticulture award as below:
Horticulture Award of Merit:
Section A: Susan Fessenden for her Dragon Wing Red Begonia
Section B: Paula Butterfield for her Montauk Daisy
Section C: Gail Conner for her Begonia Escargot
Section D: Marge Galletta for her Dahlia ‘Rip City’
Section G: Geri Williams for her Poblano Pepper
Arboreal Award: Jean Dobachesky for her Umbrella Pine
Growers Choice Award: Linda O’Neil for her Red Mezoo plant
The Award of Horticultural Excellence (Best exhibit in all of Horticulture) was
awarded to Becky Freedman for her Herb Planter Dish.
In Design Classes the following are the awards:
Class 1: “Town Brook Running Free”
1 st :Nancy Carafoli also Designers Choice and Best in Show ribbons
2 nd : Geri Williams
3 rd : Colleen Costa
HM: Jean Dobachesky
Class 2: “The Ocean’s Moods and Colors Inspire”
1 st : Marge Galletta
2 nd (90+): Judy MacDonald and the Club Betty Award
3 rd : Gail Conner
HM: Katherine Angley
Class 3: “Plymouth Beach is a Natural Gem”
1 st : Pat Parker
2 nd : Natalie Caramello
3 rd : Liz Hester
HM: Servane Rogers
Class 4: “Thanksgiving Traditions”
1 st : Patty O’Brien
2 nd : Crystal Payne and the Club Jini Award
3 rd : Jeanne Burnell
HM: Linda O’Neill
June Luncheon – 2022
New Officers were inducted during the Annual June Luncheon, at the Plymouth Yacht Club
June Luncheon – 2021
The Awakening by Kevinette Considine
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- Roses for new officers
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- Invocation – Kevinette
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- Installation of officers
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- Florabunda Award-Paula
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- New Member-Leslie
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- 2021-2022 Officers
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- Past Presidents
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- Scholarship Award Winners
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- Entertainment by member Crystal
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- Luncheon members
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- Luncheon members
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- Luncheon members
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- Luncheon members
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- Luncheon members
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- Luncheon members
May – 2021
The Club was thoroughly entertained by Mike Paduch, owner of Crystal Lake Nursery in Plymouth. He demonstrated Fabulous Container Gardens.
April – 2021
Zoom meeting with Ellie Gilbert – Ellie presented a wonderful slide show on the development of her gardens. She has planted in such a way as to have colors change through out the season. In June, the Club was invited to tour her gardens.
Ellie Gilbert
September – 2020
The Covid-19 Pandemic changed our lives as we’ve known it. New lingo includes social distancing, masks, PPEs, quarantine, flatten the curve, contact tracing, ventilators/respirators, virtual/Zoom interactions, toilet paper importance, working/learning from home and so much more.
How exciting to finally have our first in-person meeting! Who would have thought it would be outside at the American Legion overlooking a lovely pond. We had our…
ANNUAL INSTALLATION OF NEW OFFICERS
and AWARDS 
CO-PRESIDENTS: Rebecca Freer Freedman, Patricia Parker FIRST VP: Coleen Costa 2ND VP: Janet Voyer RECORDING SECRETARY: Paula Butterfield CORRESPONDIING SECRETARY: Linda Berthold TREASURER: Rose Cain ASST TREASURER: Marie Young AUDITOR: Kate Angley NOMINATING CHAIR: Liz Hester
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- Coletta Candini – The Life Member Award
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- Meghan Rinker – The President’s ABC Award (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty award)
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- Patricia O’Brian – Thank you for your service as Auditor
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- Gail Connor – The Floribunda Award of Appreciation from the SE District of the Garden Federation of MA
and… CAROLE GUDRUN
Master Horticulturist
our interesting and informative speaker came to us via the Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary and Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (formerly Manomet Bird Observatory). Carole spoke to us about plants, especially native plants, that can be used to enhance our ecological systems. The co-dependency of plants, birds, insects and animals truly impact our human life. There is much each of us can do to provide thriving environments for all. A tidbit of trivia: the name Manomet is a native American word that means portage path.
