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Maplewood Garden Club – Year 100 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.
2026-27 MGC Season
Our 2026-27 Garden Club year kicks off on September 14th 2026. We’re planning a great year, an exciting Design Exhibit theme, club trips and our usual club events. All of it cumulating in the 90th Annual Plant Sale in May. We hope to see you at our meetings and activities in this our 100th year!
November Club Meeting:
When: Monday, November 2nd, 7:30 PM
Where: The Woodland in Maplewood
Guest Speaker: Anthony Bracco
Subject: Raised Bed Gardening
Link: November Club Meeting
Raised Bed Gardening –
Discover what to plant in a raised garden bed, including the best vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers for healthy, high-yield growth. Raised beds can be as simple or as elaborate as you would like.
Biography
Seventeen years ago Anthony and his wife bought a 25-acre farm in the Black Dirt region of Pine Island, NY. Anthony had intended to be a hobby farmer on just an acre growing his family the cleanest produce possible using non-GMO seeds, hand cultivation of weeds, old fashioned farm equipment, picking only when ready, and without chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation, pesticides or herbicides, and allowing the soil to naturally regenerate each season. These sustainable farming techniques produced a shocking abundance of produce. After just one season, Bracco Farms was born out of the demanding momentum of the growing food movement.
See our Programs page for details on this and all our guest speakers.
PLANT SWAP
If you have been busily propagating over the summer, or have some plants in need of a new home before the cold weather sets in, please bring them to the October meeting. Plants, cuttings, seeds, all are welcome. Please make sure to bring home any mate- rials that might be left at the meeting’s end.
2026-27 Design Exhibit Schedule
We have an exciting Exhibition Schedule planned. This season’s theme is Musical Inspiration of the 20th Century.
Each month we will express our interpretation of different musical genres of the 20th century through floral design. Let the rhythm and emotion of music through the decades influence your creativity when designing your arrangement. Think of “Attributes of Design” such as expression and harmony, “Elements of Design” such as use of color and advancing and receding colors, and “Principles of Design” such as balance and contrast, while you listen to music for inspiration.
November’s theme is 1950′ Rock ‘n Roll.
Please visit our Design Exhibits page for more details on this month’s design objectives and plant choices.
Remember this is all in fun, so don’t be shy and give it a try!
MGC’S MEMORIAL BED!
The renovation/expansion of our Memorial Bed alongside the rental greenhouse is looking wonderful! Great work by our members!
Monthly Gardening Tips – November
Surprisingly there’s often a lot of good weather this month to support gardening, particularly long-term planning. The soil is loose, not yet frozen hard, and you might find Dahlias still in bloom.
Ornamentals like Dahlia tubers need to dug up & stored through winter. It’s not too late to plant spring flowering bulbs; Fig Trees need winterizing and a good time to sharpen and clean your tools before it’s too cold to tackle them.
Please visit our November Gardening Tips page for a list of garden tasks you can start tackling.