Bath Garden Club

Bath Garden Club Executive Committee 2011-2012

President- Barbara Richards

369 Barley Neck Road, Woolwich, ME 04579
443-2869 barbjrichards@comcast.net

First Vice President- Joan Nason

Second Vice President- Liz Prest

Recording Secretary- Gwenda Meltzer-Prior

Treasurer- Beverly J. Reynolds

On the cover of our yearbook, Bath Garden Club member Pam Allen's drawing depicts a traditional circular herb garden along with a garden shed where some of the many uses of herbs are depicted.

Bath Garden Club Projects
2010-2011

CONTINUING PROJECTS

1.  Civic Beautification
Library Park
Leeman Highway
Maine Maritime Museum
Support Main Street Bath Flower Fund
Bath Train Station Daylily Maintenance
2.  Education
Summer Camperships to Merrymeeting Audubon Camp
Morris Farm, Pine Tree Camp
3.  Garden Therapy
Oliver House
Bath Senior Center Legacy Garden
Earth Day Planting at Hill House
4.  Conservation
Support national Backyard Wildlife Habitat project
Support local Medication Collection Day
5.  Youth Activities
Junior Garden club at Fisher-Mitchell School
May Day Project
Kindergarten Art Show
Patten Free Library
Assist with supplies for refurbished school greenhouse

NEW PROJECTS
Assistance with Candy Cane Train fundraising effort for Tri-County Literacy
Planting of gardens at the Arrowsic Town Hall
Library Park plantings around the Gazebo
Landscaping at the Woolwich Meeting House
Tedford Housing Gardens
Bath YMCA Festival of Trees
Phippsburg Elementary School Seckas Memorial Garden
Native Gardens at Woolwich Meeting House

Poetry & Flowers
The theme for this year's yearbook is Poetry and Flowers.  Flowers have inspired poets for centruies and to remind us of this we have sprinkled the yearbook with selections from peoems referring to flowers in general or to a specific bloom.

We have tried to avoid the most familiar verses about flowers and instead have chosen lesser-known quotations by a variety of writers.  Some selections are by major peoets (Dickinson, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Neruda) and others are by writers we know primarily for other literary forms (Dorothy Parker, Ibsen, Stevenson).

As usual, the cover art by BGC member Pam Allen reminds us of some the flowers mentioned in the quotations.

We hope these snippets will inspire you to read (or write!) some poetry in your garden.

Oh! To be a flower
Nodding in the sun,
Bending, then upspringing
As the breezes run;
Holding up
A scentbrimmed cup,
Full of summer's fragance to the summer sun.
From Song by Amy Lowell

Unless otherwise noted, meetings are held at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington Street, Bath.
Social hour & lunch begin 
at noon with meeting & program
at 12:30 pm.