With spring in the air (at least on most days), the Garden Group has been particularly busy with the annual visit from Chef Colby Rottler and visits to several delightful gardens in the area.
On March 22, the group went to the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Flower Show Festivals Around the World: Gardens in Celebration. Following a tour of this non-traditional flower show, the group went to the much Acclaimed Briggs Nursery where pansies for the library urns and others for members’ home gardens were purchased. Lunch followed in the Museum’s Café.
On March 23 ,MWC and Garden Group member and, in this case, Instructor Sharon Doyon led a gathering entitled Canna Care Workshop. Cannas are the very beautiful and recently quite popular red tubular plants that the MWC will use as [art of its annual Community Beautification project throughout the coming year. Canna plants prepared as part of this year’s summer planting at the Town Library were readied during the workshop as were specimens for each of the approximately 15 participants to take home to plant in their own gardens.
On April 4, Chef Colby Rottler sated our appetites for top-quality Italian food with his delicious recipes and entertaining demonstrations for cooking each for a very congenial gathering of approximately 20 Garden Group members.
On Monday, April 15, the first truly spring day since Spring 2023, the Friday Walking Group and members of the Garden Group took a wonderful stroll through field of daffodils at Parson’s Reserve in Dartmouth. A farm-to-table lunch followed at the Farm & Coast Market on Bridge Street in Dartmouth.
On Tuesday, April 16, members of the Garden Group took part in a walking tour through an expansive daffodil garden belonging to author, traveler, and adventurer Mattapoisett’s own Kimberly Ward. The tour, called Daffodils and Books, was narrated by Ms. Ward and featured readings from her new book, Crew of Three: How Bold Dreams and Detailed Plans Launched Our Family’s Sailing Adventure, which is the story about the Ward family’s two-year long live aboard sail on their 34′ boat. From there, the group explored the neighboring Mattapoisett Land Trust’s Brandt Island Cove District with Kimberly.
Hosted by MWC member and outgoing Corresponding Secretary Sherry Hoines, on Friday, April 19, members will go to the Blithewold Mansion in Bristol, RI for Daffodil Days. On the way home, the group will stop for lunch after a busy morning of touring the show and exhibits.
No grass grows under these ladies’ feet, that’s for sure, because the Summer Planting Gathering is almost out of the planning stage, not to mention that there are only a few slots left to be part of the contingent of MWC members who volunteer to water the flower pots at Town Hall, the Library, and the Town Dock to name but a few, all in an effort to keep Mattapoisett Beautiful again through the summer and early fall months!
Way to go to Cindy Turse, Chair of the Garden Group, and all of the group’s wonderfully dedicated members!
