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Nov. 4, Monday 7pm, at Bemis Hall
EVENING MEETING (Open to the Public)
Program: From Backyard to Watershed: Gardening for Clean Water
From Backyard to Watershed:
Gardening for Clean Water
Join the Lincoln Garden Club at their fall public meeting on Monday, November 4th at 7pm at Bemis Hall. Refreshments provided.We face regular extremes of drought and flooding. Come learn how you can garden to preserve and protect the quantity and quality of water in our yards and our watershed. This program’s speaker will be Max Rome, the Storm water Program Manager at the Charles River Watershed Association.
Link to recording of the above presentation. Passcode below.
Passcode: ?e0@!z.n
Click the following link for the pdf. of the presentation.
Gardening for Clean Water LGC_2024
Join us.
The Lincoln Garden Club invites anyone interested in joining the club to read the following-
School Enrichment Program
The bean plants we planted with the 1st grade students have started to bloom!
Committee: Jennifer Glass, Gina Halsted, Eileen McCrory, Robin Wilkerson
Memorial Day at Morningside Park, Bedford Road. Notice the beautiful clover!
Our next meeting is the Annual Meeting
6/4/24, Tuesday, 10am, Annual Meeting Summer Fun,
Socialize and walk the Pierce House Gardens.
Annual Meeting Summer fun!: Come gather with fellow gardeners as we celebrate the end of a remarkable year. We’ll mingle with icebreaker games, celebrate each other and our lovely community, partake of delicious foods, and walk the Pierce House Gardens together. Don’t forget that special celebratory hat!”
6/4/24 Tuesday, 12 noon, Business Meeting and Luncheon, Pierce House
Joanna’s beautiful photo of her Giant Asiatic Lillies!
My garden photo of my Giant Asiatic Lillies was selected by Boston.com yesterday among others: https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/summer-garden-2023-photos/
Had I known how impractical Giant Asiatic Lillies were I never would have planted them. They were an impulse purchase during the early pandemic.
I planted them in 6 clusters around the front yard and I pay my daughter a few dollars each day to spray them with deer spray otherwise they are eaten immediately. We also have to alternate brands or the deer get used to it!
Joanna Schmergel
Plant Sale information follows:
Angela Kadlec’s arrangement was at the Museum of Fine Arts, Art in Bloom, the weekend of May 1.
Click here to see short video.
Angela writes: Inspired by the Turnbull table, circa 1850, made in Jamaica from indigenous woods. I chose yellow black & green flowers bc of 🇯🇲 Jamaica’s flag.
Lincoln Garden Club
PLANT SALE
Saturday, May 13th, 11-2
at Station Park
Getting Ready for Spring! The Lincoln Garden Club is having their biennial Plant Sale on Saturday May 13th. It will be held at Station Park this year, at the corner of Lincoln Rd and Ridge Road, across from the Post office. The plant sale will run from 11am – 2pm.
The plants sold come from our members’ gardens, parks we maintain, and from generous donors around town. If you have plants to donate, please contact me. There will also be garden paraphernalia for sale. We’ll even have a few handmade bluebird nesting boxes for sale which you could set up right away and maybe catch a second laying!
We will have some native plugs ordered through commercial nurseries. These are very small and will need babying in a pot or well tended garden plot.
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Eryngium yuccifolium: Rattlesnake master
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Polemonium reptans: Jacob’s ladder
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Packera aurea: Golden Ragwort available after 6/19
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Aquilegia canadensis: Eastern red columbine available on or after 5/19
To preorder click here.
The plant sale is always a fun time to share plant knowledge and see friends. We will have some snacks in Station Park and you can tour our flagship garden.
The garden club first heard about jumping worms in 2020 and then we had a really wet spring in 2021. There was an explosion of reports to the state of Massachusetts of jumping worm activity. The one good thing about them is that they die each winter and hatch from eggs in the spring. A telling sign is a significant pile of castings that look like coffee grounds were dumped on the lawn or garden. Last year was very dry so there was little evidence of the worms.
We are all concerned about jumping worms in our gardens, and we cannot guarantee that some plants you want to purchase may come from properties with jumping worms. If you have not seen any on your property and want to purchase plants, the best plan is to shake off the soil and rinse the roots until clean. Eggs are the size of a poppy seed. If there is not enough rainfall, the eggs will remain until next year. Jumping worms cross roads on a hot summer day, climb trees, and travel quickly up through the bottom of pots.
Belinda
781-577-7004
Vegetable Gardening in Containers
by Green City Growers
Tuesday, April 4. At Bemis Hall or by Zoom.
Do you want to raise vegetables but don’t have a garden?
Do you want creative ideas for a planter?
The Lincoln Garden Club is having an Open to the Public meeting on Vegetable Gardening in Containers.
The Lecture will be at Bemis Hall as well as on Zoom. Join us Tuesday April 4th at 7:00 pm.
To register for the zoom link go to
Click this to register for Zoom link
Happy Spring!
Belinda
Green City Growers
is a group that concentrates on transforming under utilized urban spaces into bio – diverse vegetable gardens with raised beds and containers. They then teach people how to create and maintain them.
Do you have an idea for a project that might help bring beauty and community to Lincoln?
There are some wonderful Grant Opportunities for you!
Please read the following.
Annual Garden Club Grants for FY 2023-2024
For fiscal year 2023 – 2024, the Garden Club has earmarked $4500 for grants that are in keeping with the Club’s mission to provide community service to the town of Lincoln and to engage in projects related to beautification, horticulture, conservation, and landscape design. Prior grants have supported the hiring of an intern to develop a native plant bed at Station Park, providing funds to the Lincoln Tree Warden to plant the next generation of trees along Baker Bridge Road, installing a bench on the Beaver Pond trail, and partnering with the Lincoln Library Board to care for and propagate the Catalpa (“twisted tree”) growing in front of the Library.
Grant applications must be sponsored by a Lincoln Garden Club member; collaboration with other community groups is welcomed and encouraged! If you have a grant idea, join the Garden Club or partner with a member to write a proposal! Apply here. Applications are due by March 31, 2023.
The photo was taken at a gathering celebrating the granite bench constructed on the Beaver Pond Trail and donated by the Garden Club, in collaboration with the Lincoln Conservation Trust and installed by the Conservation Department.
This award is in honor of the extraordinary fundraising efforts of long-time Garden Club member Gabrielle Brenninkmeyer. The $500 award is given to support projects that further the Club’s two-fold mission: providing community service to the town of Lincoln and providing members the opportunity to enhance and share their knowledge of such garden-related topics as horticulture, design, conservation, and beautification. Prior awards supported new trees on the Lincoln School campus, and the Boy Scouts’ raised garden project at Codman Farm. The award is open to any Lincoln resident or student of the Lincoln Public Schools. Apply here.
If you have a question about grants or would like to discuss an idea please email here.
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The Lincoln Garden Club presented member Peter Stewart at the piano, playing Valentine love songs.
Music and delicious desserts warmed the hearts of Winter Carnival attendees at Pierce House.
Peter Stewart entertains at Pierce House.
Belinda Gingrich and Ann Parke enjoy the event.
Songs from the heart.
Already a member? Want to pay dues? Click the native flower below.
Letter from the Club President, Melinda Bruno-Smith
So much is happening in our 100 year old garden club. We are a new generation embracing both tradition and contemporary ideas and practices. Whether you are down on your knees digging or appreciate the beauty and science as a novice or connoisseur there is place for you here, and we love hearing your voice.
This garden club is a reflection of what you bring to it and what we share together. For me, gardening is an art, a science and a spiritual practice nurtured by community. My garden is never done, never complete, always evolving and changing.
What is The Garden for you? We share where we are in the process — stories, memories, photographs, recipes, poems, drawings. What you see, feel, think—your explorations, creations, experiments. Thank you for all your contributions.
I look forward to our creative year ahead.
Melinda Bruno-Smith ~LGC President
10/3/2022, Monday, 9:00am,
Maria von Brincken, Meant For Each Other: My Favorite Foliage Combinations
Bemis Hall (zoom possible)
11/01/2022, Tuesday, 7:00pm, Open to the Town,
Bud Seckler, Rare Plant Ecology in Boston Area
Bemis Hall (zoom possible)
12/06/2022, Tuesday, 10:00am,
Thomas Mickey, Victorian Flowers We Still Love
Pierce House (zoom possible)
2/06/2023, Monday, 9:00am,
Liz Barbour, Vegetarian Entrees
Zoom only
3/06/2023, Monday, 9:00am,
Judith Sumner, Birds Nest Botany
Bemis Hall (zoom possible)
4/04/2023, Tuesday, 7:00pm, Open to the Public,
Green City Growers, Growing Vegetables in Containers
Bemis Hall ( Zoom?)
5/01/2023, Monday, 9:00am,
Donna Lane, Sensational Dahlias
Bemis Hall (zoom possible)
6/06/2023, Tuesday, 10:00am,
Medicinal Herb Garden, Mass Medical Society
860 Winter St., Waltham (in person)
The MFA’s Art In Bloom is going on this weekend.
Angela has a wonderful arrangement on display!
Hope you have a chance to see it. Barbara L. writes, “I went to the show yesterday and had a small guided tour with about 10 arrangements. One was Angela’s!! It is spectacular, It shows the colors and movement/energy of the painting very well. Certainly the guides thought so to have chosen it!”
4-30-22
Living Soil, A Closer Look at the Fungi, Bacteria, and Fauna in the Soil will be held:
Saturday, April 23rd, from 10:30-12pm in person, at Codman Farm.
This is the fourth workshop of the Healthy Soils Series which included the Garden Club’s “No Till” lecture.
During this interactive and informative event we’ll be examining the vibrant ecosystem that soil supports. Did you know that a single teaspoon (1 gram) of healthy soil can hold up to one billion bacteria, several yards of fungal filaments, several thousand protozoa, and scores of nematodes?
Activities for all ages– childcare provided!
Go to Codman Farm’s website to sign up: https://codmancommunityfarms.org/upcoming-events
April 5, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m., EVENING MEETING Open to the Public, “No Till Gardening and Cover Crops”
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Apr 5, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMuceuqpjguEt0VAsT0QWEqMKoSIJvbJYWj
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Co Sponsored by the Lincoln Agricultural Commission
Doug Wolcik and Kayleigh Boyle, former farmers at Gaining Ground Farm in Concord will speak on No Till gardening and other environmentally safe practices for the commercial farm and the home garden. Doug is a nationally known expert on climate thoughtful farm and garden practices including the carbon sequestering No Till method.
Already a member? Want to pay dues? Click the native flower below.
Click here for more information on what we do.
We are a group that enjoys sharing our gardening skills and learning from others. Working together, members make the club a lively and successful organization that contributes to the community. Please click the Station Park bench below to find out about joining our work.
From Kim Buell: Below are photos of the new bench given by the Lincoln Garden Club overlooking Beaver Pond. The people on the bench are staff from the Lincoln Conservation and Land Trust who installed the bench.
Plan a walk. Check out the Tree website. Click on the tree below to go to the Lincoln Tree Tour website
Garden Club will give a Hydration Station to the Town for Station Park
Agnes is pleased to report that on July 13 the Selectmen voted to accept our gift of $5,000 for a hydration station at Station Park. They were really delighted by the idea and very appreciative of the Garden Club for donating the hydration station.
James Craig has used the Elkay station in Concord both for himself and his dog. Renel Fredriksen commented that they want the town to be biker friendly and this supports that objective. They sincerely thanked the Garden Club.
Also, they loved the idea that we were inspired to do this by the 8th grade initiative for a hydration station at the school.
Our hydration will be granite and similar to the one in Concord.
Why Heirloom Ornamental Plants Matter
By: Maureen T. O’Brien
Many heirloom plants traveled great distances across the sea and across our country, transported by wistful immigrants, travelers and explorers as a remembrance of times past, places they loved or as an example of the exotic. Others derive from our native wildflowers.
While an authoritative definition for heirloom plants is elusive, there are traits associated with these plants: some discernible, others intangible. Heirloom plants appeared in American gardens in the past. They populated our grand- mother’s gardens; others were specimens in historic landscapes. Many survived as pass-along plants, propagated between generations and gardeners. They are reliable, disease resistant, fragrant and underused. They are associated with happy memories, romance and spiritual experiences with nature.
Heirlooms are not necessarily better than the new plants filling our garden centers and catalogs. Rather they provide a link to our past and the foundation for our future in horticulture. Heirlooms add variety to our gardens. Unlike many of today’s engineered hybrids, heirlooms are fragrant, fertile and hardy. They may be tall, quirky and colorful with precious blooms and foliage, and several are deer resistant. Heirlooms reproduce naturally and facilitate Nature choosing the next star in the garden via natural selection.
Many heirloom ornamental plants are in danger of being lost forever—not through natural extinction but by human intervention. Just as there are fashions in clothes and furnishings, there are fashions in plants. Plants go in and out of style. Today our gardens are filled with innovative, compact and thrilling new cultivars. Many are here today and gone tomorrow. Others are tomorrow’s heirlooms. Most are the result of genetic engineering and leave no room in the marketplace for tried and true heirloom varieties.
Why should we care? Heirloom plants maintain our planet’s biodiversity and document our history. Unlike clothes or furnishings that can be reproduced from images and patterns, plants regenerate through their DNA. Once lost, that plant’s DNA is gone forever.
– Save an Heirloom Plant! (from the Winter Newsletter of the Massachusetts Federation)
The Lincoln Garden Club is part of a program of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts to “Preserve American Heirloom Plants” for ourselves and for future generations.
Heirloom plants are plants that appeared in American gardens in the past. Many survived as pass along plants, propagated between generations and gardeners. They are reliable, disease resistant, fragrant, and underused. They connect us with our family, our national roots, and provide lasting continuity between successive generations. These plants enrich our lives and our surroundings, but are in danger of fading into the past. The Lincoln Garden Club is part of a program of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts to “Preserve American Heirloom Plants” for ourselves and for future generations. It runs from May 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017. Please let us know what you planted either by visiting the Garden Club website and going to heirloom plant registration, by filling out the clipboard at a club meeting, or by emailing Belinda.gingrich@verizon.net. All plants listed are hardy to this zone and are available online at specialized nurseries and at Weston Nurseries especially if ordered in the early spring. In parenthesis is the first year there is primary source documentation that a plant was cultivated on American soil or offered by an American nursery.
Native Plant Project at Station Park
This summer’s Station Park Native Plant Bed Project concluded with a talk at the Park on Saturday, October 17th. Lauren Weeks, New England Wild Flower Society intern, described her goals and design approach, and her process in acquiring the plants, and working with Club volunteers and students from Minuteman Tech to remove the old bed and install the new. An interested group of 25 Club and non-Club members attended the talk which was followed by an enthusiastic question and answer session. Lauren Weeks Notes Design and Approach are available by clicking on the words.
The Lincoln Garden Club created and installed the flowerbed with over 400 plants native to Massachusetts at Station Park. “This native plant bed is a great example of how we can apply more sustainable landscaping practices 
at our homes without giving up on beauty. A choice of plants will bring different colors to Station Park at every season,” says the Club’s co-President Belinda Gingrich. “Also, native plants attract pollinators, such as insects, birds and mammals, restoring nature to a more heathy state,” adds co-President Agnes Wiggin.
The Lincoln Garden Club paid for the project with donations from people who supported the LGC Garden Tour in June.
Cathy Moritz coordinated the newly designed and planted park. Installation was made possible through the combined efforts of Club members, NEWFS staff, students and teachers from the Minuteman Technical Institute, and the Town of Lincoln.
Station Park is owned by the Town of Lincoln and maintained by the Lincoln Garden Club. Located at the intersection of Lincoln and Ridge Roads, across from the shopping mall, the Park provides a restful place for people passing by or taking a break from their jobs or errands.
The transfer of the existing plants, the design of the new bed and its installation was done throughout July, August and September. The pdf’s of the Design and List of Native Plants are available by clicking on the words. Lauren Weeks wrote a Plant by Plant Maintenance Plan that Club members will use in the future, when caring for the bed as it grows. Thank you to Daniela for the photos.
