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Epping NH Mum Sale


Time to get your orders in!

10″ Hanging Mums (yes you can take the hangers off) $17.00 or 2 for $30.00
8″ Mums$8.00 or 2 for $15.00
6 1/2″ Mums $6.00 or 3 for $15.00

Make checks out to and send checks here:
Epping Garden Club
9 Folsom Mill Lane
Epping, NH 03042

Depending on when plants are ready, we will bring them to town for pickup which should be in mid September so please send your information along with a check by September 10, 2021.

Thank you

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The Gardens Received Plenty of Attention

A take on the Square Foot Gardening from the 80’s
It is producing nicely. This is a photo from 3 weeks ago.
Veggies garden club members started from seed.
Children’s books are also featured. One of the Trustees makes the cutouts to go with the book.
The Sensory Garden took shape in the donated canoe.
A cutting garden keeps a vase full inside the library to greet visitors.
The native landscape is also loving all the heavy rains.

So with our $1000.00 grant from the Nation Garden Club “Plant America” award we have exceeded even our expectations.

We no sooner had all the gardens planted when we were told by our town we were not to water it, as they posted a water ban. It had been dry but we were never in a drought. The town always has issues as I am sure others do but seriously no even/odd days offered to the towns people or businesses, no heads up or plan for our landscape worth over $40,000.00 when you add in all the volunteer labor it took to put it into place.

So up against the wall a volunteer and long standing member of a town family, one who’s last name is also a part of of our libraries name, offered us an unused 1500 gal. tank and one of the garden club members as well as the lead on the library trustees purchased a pump to hang inside the tank and the cord to run it as well as hoses and wands to water this huge landscape. All of us were determined to not let all of the efforts put into this landscape just shrivel up and die.

The landscape was divided into 3 sections and volunteers signed up to not only water but also to keep the area weeded, which was a bigger task in the end as once we were set up to water all it did was rain, for the rest of the month of June and most of July, it could hardly fail but the weeds are relentless as most gardeners know and we had used the smother method(cardboard) and a thick layer of wood chips, for which I am grateful.

We have been enjoying lettuce, peppers herbs and squash but the tomatoes are looking amazing though still green. We also have pumpkins growing and a few ears of corn that are in the square foot garden and already have silks the corn may not be any good but it showed all who stopped by what was possible in a garden of their own.


Happy gardening!

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We Have Been Busy

The Epping Garden Club here in NH has been busy weeding and watering the new landscape at our library along with a few other volunteers from town.

The Children’s Garden was added with the help of a #PLANTAMERICA Grant in the amount of $1000.00. We are grateful.

We also have our own gardens to tend to also with many challenges when the weather doesn’t cooperate.

The town can only offer us water from the sewerage plant and that is not allowed in the food garden for sure and is sketchy at best for a gorgeous, 95% native plant landscape put in just a month ago.

Now we will look for holding tanks and rain barrels to care for them when the weather doesn’t. As gardeners we roll with what we are dealt.

Square Foot Garden mulched to retain moisture and block weeds
How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Who Needs A Lawn

This project has been a few years in the making and will have many a tongue wagging, as doing away with a lawn at a municipal building, along Main Street USA but for me it is the perfect location for a radical unveiling
of really what we need to see more of.

Saving green space is a wonderful thing when it is managed properly and here in this town we have a land trust gathering up as much land as they can at a time when many plots of family owned lands are being torn up for housing and more strip malls, so maybe when this is done without much thought might they not use better practices?

Such as not paving paradise to put up a parking lot? What about clean water? How do we maintain water for life if you are constantly adding more lawns alongside all of these lots while using so many chemicals to keep them pristine never mind the runoff into our beautiful rivers and streams.

Maybe it is time to hold those in charge and their governing boards as well. We must demand as taxpayers more well thought out spaces and not just ones designed for their bottom lines but for all who call this place home.

Wild things like bees and beneficial insects are more important than another gas station and in this town of 7,000 we have 6 if I counted correctly.

We also have a Lowes and a Super Walmart and a Tractor Supply as well. They have huge asphalt spaces that could be offset by spaces such as this one here at our library. Yes it takes effort and out of the box thinking but on the other hand there will be a remarkable change that happens not only for beneficial insects but for the people near these natural spaces.

Wood chips get such a bad rap with comments such as “anything will be better than woodchips” . We need to educate the masses on their benefits and the biggest one I see personally is maintaining the moisture level in the soil as well as keeping weeds at bay if your layer is thick enough or you have used a layer of cardboard to first smother an area.

Yes this is a new way of thinking as well as gardening but we need spaces like this to see a real change.

The talk these days is all about Pollinator Pathways but this spot will be a mecca for them. In just 3 years this landscape will be stunning, how many in town will have patience?

The landscape design was donated by a tax paying resident and then installed by her landscape company along with volunteers in her field who worked hard in 85F heat with the help of others from Library Trustees, Epping Garden Club, Friends of the Library members and so much help from Charlie and Sandy Goodspeed who worked hard to get this building built then spent 40+ hrs. volunteering their time as well as seeing the project to its end. We could never have done this without them.

The Epping Garden Club has received a Check for $1000.00 from the National Garden Club for use in our Children’s garden and another $300.00 from Exeter Area Garden Club to one of our members who is also a librarian here at Harvey-Mitchell Memorial Library.

Come by and watch the garden grow as well as a Community!

See Epping Garden Club Facebook page for many photos of this huge undertaking.

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Sensory Herb Gardens for Special Needs Children — The Herb Society of America Blog

By Candace Riddle Ever since Beatrix Potter wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit, children and gardens have had a special friendship. That friendship is even stronger between children with special needs and special gardens called “sensory gardens.”  The difference between a sensory garden and a “regular” garden is the human factor— regular display gardens are […]

Sensory Herb Gardens for Special Needs Children — The Herb Society of America Blog
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Please Get Your Orders In ASAP

Should the weather break and begin to warm we hope to have the Pansies arrive on April 2nd at 9 AM. here at the library in Epping NH right on Main Street. We will be in the large lot behind the library.

We do accept donations if you just want to help our group make this town in Epping NH USA look a little nicer.
$15 a bowl
$25 for 2 bowls
$18 per flat (6-6 packs)



Thank you
Epping Garden Club
9 Folsom Mill Lane
Epping New Hampshire
USA
03042

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Pansy Fundraiser

The Epping Garden Club will once again offer “Pansy Bowls” for sale. This will help with our Civic Beautification projects we do here in town and it is always our first fundraiser of the year, just as spring approaches.

In our garden at the Safety Complex and as well as our three corners, we have bulbs that come up first and from there it changes with our perennials taking over, as we look to always have a variety plants in bloom through fall.

These are NOT wildflower gardens, they are more traditional in nature having bulbs, roses, hosta, daylilies, grasses and other perennials.

In our white self-watering containers, which line the Main Street area downtown and as well as the ones on our corners, we need to buy fresh soil when the pansies go in and also when we swap them out for more of a summertime display which runs from Memorial Day through mid September.

We will once again swap out the summer feel for a more traditional autumn one, using a mix of mums, asters and cabbage that we also offer during our Fall Plant Sale.

Keeping a garden can be costly as you know if you do landscaping in your yard. With us being a small group of volunteers we could not do it without holding fundraisers(plant sales) and from those who shop with us.

We offer only the best NH grown plants. Why not give us a try and see for yourself and help us in the process to make this town look just a little more loved.

Pansy Bowls are selling for $15.00 each or 2 bowls for $25.00
Flats of Pansies (6 six packs of one color) $18.00 for those doing window boxes and garden borders.

To place your order or to donate to our garden club, here in Epping NH USA, Email us here : eppinggardenclub@gmail.com


Thanks for your support!

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Holiday Fundraiser

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The Epping Garden Club will once again be offering gorgeous New Hampshire grown Poinsettias in 2 sizes with a possibility of a few enormous ones.
We also hope to offer wreaths as well for a one stop shop for your fresh plant and décor needs.

Kissing Balls Plain or Decorated $25/$35
14″ Wreaths Plain or with a bow $11/$15
Larger ones maybe also be available, reach out with your needs.

Poinsettias
6″ $12.00
8″ $20.00
We may have a chance of getting the huge ones(10″) if we request them early.

Please call with your local Epping area needs 300-0064 or email us at: eppinggardenclub@gmail.com

Follow us on Facebook/Instagram as well if you are into Social Media.

Thank you!

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Our Club Thanks You

Our truck ran late and forgot 15 important items they brought in a 2nd truck but it was our supporters who in the end came through! You helped us unload each rack and set them in place for others to gather their orders from. We can not thank you enough and some new faces too 🙂 we hope to see you in the spring for our Pansies but if you decorate for the holidays please reach out and we can bring you amazing Poinsettias.

Thanks again!

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Flowers Arrive 9/19

Have you placed your orders #epping ?
Our Civic Beautification Fundraiser is underway and tomorrow is the last day to get your paid orders in to us.

The truck will be behind our library, in the town parking lot, Saturday September 19th between 8-8:30 am so please make your way in a timely manner so we can get them into your cars and begin to add color to our town planters.

Thanks so much!

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Pick Up Orders Sept. 19th

Civic Beautification Fundraiser

For those who have placed an order or will by Monday the 14th you can come pick up your plants at our library on Sat. morning the 19th of September in the library parking lot between 8-11 am we will not be delivering them to your doors this go around.

Please keep them watered and fed weekly so they can turn into the beauties they were intended to be when they arrive they will be just beginning to show their colors.

Thanks again for supporting our garden clubs hard work making our town look better in a few spots.

Have some free time on your hands and want to do something nice reach out volunteering is a good thing.

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Now Accepting PayPal

When ordering plants from our club during their Fundraisers you can now pay using PayPal here:

eppinggardenclub@hotmail.com


This is for local Epping New Hampshire USA area patrons only and for those just looking to donate to our small club for the work we do in the Town of Epping we will accept cash as well that will go to purchase more plant material and soil as well as mulch.

Thanks for supporting our group of volunteers we really appreciate it!
Right now we are getting ready to close out our Fall Fundraiser which we have about a week left until we close sales out and order the truck to deliver the mums, asters and cabbage.

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Time To Order Fall Plants

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Fall Plant Fundraiser
Epping Garden Club
Epping NH

Please fill out your order and share the other form with a friend or neighbor.

EPPING GARDEN CLUB FALL PLANT SALE
NO PROMISES ON COLOR, BUT PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR PREFERENCE
priceYellowRedOrangePurpleWhiteTOTAL $
6 1/2″ MUMS2 for $10
8″ MUMS1 for $8.50 2 for $15
10″ MUMS w/ removable Hanger1 for $15
12″ Combo: Mums with a bunny tail grass1 for $25 2 for $45
6 1/2″ ASTER2 for $10
6 1/2″ CABBAGE2 for $10
6 1/2″ KALE2 for $10
Empty Bushel Basket1 for $6
Grand Total:
Name:
Address:
Phone:
EPPING GARDEN CLUB FALL PLANT SALE
NO PROMISES ON COLOR, BUT PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR PREFERENCE
priceYellowRedOrangePurpleWhiteTOTAL $
6 1/2″ MUMS2 for $10
8″ MUMS1 for $8.50 2 for $15
10″ MUMS w/ removable Hanger1 for $15
12″ Combo: Mums with a bunny tail grass1 for $25 2 for $45
6 1/2″ ASTER2 for $10
6 1/2″ CABBAGE2 for $10
6 1/2″ KALE2 for $10
Empty Bushel Basket1 for $6
Grand Total:
Name:
Address:
Phone:
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Taking Orders For Pansy Bowls

See a garden club member for more information beginning on 2/4/2020

Once again The Epping Garden Club will be holding their Pansy Bowl Fundraiser and we will begin taking paid orders 2/4/2020 either by mail:

Epping Garden Club
9 Folsom Mill Lane
Epping NH
03042

or by grabbing an order form from the library and dropping it off with Joyce in the Town Hall with your cash or check.

Call 300-0064(Eunice) in March for the date they will arrive in the library parking lot, as it will be dependent upon our weather and when the Pansies begin to open.

Thanks for your continued support of what we do here in town.

Epping Garden Club

Taking Orders for Pansies until April 4th!

A single bowl sells for $16.00

and if you purchase 2 or more bowls the cost to you will be $12.50 per bowl.

Orders will be delivered on a date just before Easter when the greenhouse feels the weather has warmed enough and they are safe to stay outside, and they have an opening for the driver to bring them to our library here in Epping New Hampshire. We will give updates to the date and time on Facebook and here and of course you can call.

We will also be selling raffle tickets 3 for $7.00 on a donated crocheted bed cover with a beautiful gnome with a pretty flower cart.

Forms are at the library and the Town Hall.

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