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Maplewood Garden Club at 98 Years and Still Growing Strong!
Since 1927, the Maplewood Garden Club has been a hands-on garden club, open to the people of Maplewood, NJ and the surrounding communities. Meetings are held September through May at The Woodland in Maplewood at 7:30 p.m. and are open to the public.
2025-26 MGC Season
Our 2025-26 Garden Club year kicked off on September 8th 2025. We’ve had a great year, an exciting Design Exhibit theme, club trips and our usual club events. All of it cumulating in the 89th Annual Plant Sale in May. We hope to see you around and about this Summer.
April Club Meeting
Monday, April 6th, at 7:30 PM
Subject: MGC Plant Sale
Speaker: Plant Sale Committee
Where: The Woodland, Maplewood
Get some behind-the-scenes glimpses of New Jersey’s “Big Momma of Plant Sales” and learn what makes the sale so popular and so much fun. We’ll also preview some of the many (many!) perennials, annuals, herbs and other special and unique plants that draw shoppers from all over the region and beyond.For information about our programs visit our Monthly Programs page.
For more details please see the April Club Meeting Event page.
GARDEN CLUB EXHIBITS THEME 2025-2026
THEME: Expressing Weather Forecasts Through Floral Design
Each month we will explore potential weather forecasts and express our interpretation through floral design. Delve into your inner creative genius and channel your emotions regarding good or bad weather forecasts by creating pleasing floral designs.
March
Theme: Clear Blue Skies Ahead with Large Puffy Clouds: Round Flowers with Puffy Appearance
Challenge: Tubular Design, see Handbook, p.77.
Intermediate: Creative Line-Mass Design – Horizontal Line, see Handbook, p.74..
Novice: American Traditional Line Design – Horizontal Line, see Handbook, pp. 70-71.
Open: Designer’s choice (one entry per member).
Please see our Design Exhibits page for more details!
Show us your horticultural and creative talents by participating in the horticultural and floral design exhibits. It’s up to you to accept the challenge and join the fun by participating in the Artistic Design and/or Horticultural Exhibits each month! We are looking forward to seeing your exhibits this season!
MAPLEFOOD YOUTH GARDEN PROGRAM
Calling all garden educators! I am planning the spring season for our MapleFood Garden and am calling on volunteers to help in the garden and work with kids this spring, summer, and fall.
The MapleFood garden teaches kids and families about how to grow and maintain vegetables organically. We harvest the food for kids to take home and deliver food to the community foodbanks and community fridge on Springfield Ave.
If you would like to volunteer or know kids/families who would like to participate in our program, please reach out to me at youthgarden@maplewoodgardenclub.org.
~ Monika Hannemann
2026 Plant Sale Activities are Starting
It might be dead of winter, but our club is already busy getting their hands dirty to prepare for our May Plant Sale.
It might be cold outside, but it is warm in our greenhouses. Come join the fun with your MGC members. Watch the Activities Events listed on the side of our website.
COLEUS UPDATE
The third day of January 2026 found a team of hard-work- ing Club members in the Quoset, busy taking cuttings from our coleus “mother’ plants. And what a job they did! Not gonna lie, it looks like we have 60-ish varieties!
We want to thank Diane, Vicky, Francine, Karen, and Terry for devoting a few hours to the effort.
Monthly Gardening Tips – April
April is early in our gardening year. As soon as we get a taste of the warm weather to come, we gardeners get itchy to garden! Remember that the “early risers” are first to wake. Perennials can be divided, beds can be fertilized, prune out dead or winter-damaged branches on shrubs.
Please visit our April Gardening Tips page for a list of garden tasks you can start tackling.