Garden Club
of
Harrington Park
Harrington Park, New Jersey
The Garden Club of Harrington Park welcomes you to our website. Please browse around the site - we've got lots of good information including our monthly newsletter, what to do monthly in your garden, and pictures of the barrels the Garden Club plants each year under the "Downtown Beautification" button.
Just to tell you a little bit about us; the Garden Club of Harrington Park holds General Meetings the first Thursday of every month (except when otherwise noted) September through June in the Harrington Park Library (second floor). The meetings begin at 7:30 P.M. and include a lecture by a guest speaker on various gardening topics. Each meeting we have a floral contest, whereby members interpret a given theme (see below). We have a Field Trip at the end of our Club year, along with a luncheon. Our meetings are open to everyone who loves a garden and gardening. Please check out our activities and events for the Club year by clicking on the "2024-2025 Calendar" button. This is a tri-fold calendar listing our activities. Please print it and keep it handy!
To learn more about the Club, please click on the "About Us" where you will find information on membership and what we do as a Garden Club. Mostly, we have a lot of fun as a group of folks who share a common interest -- the love of gardening!
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SPECIAL NOTES
Would you like to help with refreshments, and you've never done it before, we are here to help you with all the details of what to do and bring. If you’ve been around awhile, you know the drill. Either way it is a fun way to help make our meetings very special. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Gerri Gibney at 201 768-2615 or email at themerchantmouse@aol.com.
DUES TIME !!!
Please send dues to Beverly Murray, 363 High Street, Closter, New Jersey 07624. Questions, contact Bev at 201 768-5651. The form to send your dues is in the link box at the top of this page.
PLANT SALE
The Executive Committee has decided not to have our annual plant sale this year. We will resume next year!
Since this is our main fundraiser we are asking you to help us by donating to the Garden Club when you send in your dues. Please see the newsletter for more information!
UPCOMING EVENTS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!
All general meetings are held at the Harrington Park Library
10 Herring Street, Harrington Park, NJ 07640
7:30 P.M. in the Upstairs Meeting Room
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"The love of gardening is a seed
that once sown never dies."
Gertrude Jekyll
Willowwood Arboretum
Garden Club
of
Harrington Park
Gerri Gibney
President
Garden Club of Harrington Park
Gerri Gibney is a life-long passionate gardener who loves everything garden. She translated her love of gardening into creating the Garden Club of Harrington Park of which she serves as president. She has lectured on various garden topics and led workshops for organizations and Garden Clubs in the area, and annually for the Garden Club of Harrington Park’s December meetings, creating beautiful unique arrangements and decorations.
She is president of the Harrington Park Historical Society, Director of the Advisory Board of the Arts Council of Harrington Park, still dabbles in antiques, for many years wrote a garden column “In the Garden,” for three local newspapers, and serves in her church, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Closter.
A native of Bergen County, she grew up in Cresskill and lives in Harrington Park with her two cats; G3 and Victoria. She has written several books, alas, none of them published!
April 3, 2025 - 7:30 P.M.
Speaker: Gerri Gibney
Topic: “Florals for Spring – Supermarket Style”
A Make It and Take It Workshop with Gerri Gibney, President Garden Club of Harrington Park. Usher in the new season as you beautify your home.
To participate, please register for this Workshop, both members and visitors alike, by emailing Gerri at themerchantmouse@aol.com.
For our Garden Club April meeting, we are asking you to purchase your flowers from the supermarket where many times you will get three bundles of flowers for $15.00. The Garden Club will provide the container and the oasis foam, you’ll supply the flowers! Make sure you bring your pruners! Here are some tips to create your spring masterpiece:
1. Choose Long-Lasting Varieties
If they’re fully open, browning on the petals, or their stems are starting to turn mushy, it might be a sign to go with a hardier variety.
Favorite long-lasting flowers include carnations, calla lilies, oriental lilies, orchids, spray roses, and regular roses. Look for hearty stems; thick, solid-stemmed flowers usually last longer, whereas thin, hollow stems usually expire more quickly.
2. Select a Mix of Colored and Neutral Flowers
Select a mix of brightly colored and neutral ones for a balanced bouquet. Select different types of flowers in complementary tones or whichever ones are your favorites, pick one bright color to pair with a couple muted or neutral tones. It’s an easy recipe that’s hard to get wrong.
3. Vary the Shape of the Flowers
In addition to the color, you’ll also want to consider the shape, different varieties will help create an interesting and well-balanced arrangement.
4. Don’t Forget the Greens
Here's another pro tip that will take your arrangement to the next level: Mix in greenery like ferns, eucalyptus leaves, or long grasses. Adding a variety of greenery or foliage will make your bouquet look fuller. You can forage them from your backyard.
Note: We will attempt to have some greens available to add to your arrangement. If you’ve got an evergreen that’s light and airy, or a shiny leaf shrub, or ivy, or pachysandra, or anything you think will work, bring them along for your arrangement and some to share!
5. When you get your flowers home, you'll want to snip off the bottom of each stem. This fresh cut will help them suck up water.
