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Belfast Garden Club Seeks Local Artwork for Publicity of 2025 Events

In collaboration with Waterfall Arts, the Belfast Garden Club invites local artists to submit artwork that will be featured on promotional posters (typically about 9” x 12”) for our two major fundraising events in 2025: the annual Plant Sale on Memorial Day weekend and the Open Garden Days, which feature Waldo County gardens on summer Saturdays. One piece for each event poster will be selected by a jury of Belfast Garden Club members and Waterfall Arts staff. Artists will be credited by name on the posters. Artists will retain all rights to their work.The Garden Club will provide a stipend…

Ice, Ice, Baby

Ice, Ice, Baby

The Belfast Garden Club is hosting an ice-dyeing project during the Ice Festival on Saturday February 22nd at 3- 5pm at the Alden House.  If all goes well, the colorful ice-dyed tablecloths, like the ones shown here that Kayleen made, will be used at the Plant Sale in May, and for years to come. Even though we plan to use the garage, please dress warmly!  It might get a bit messy too so probably best to wear dark clothes or ones you don’t mind getting dye on. We’ll have warm beverages, drinks and snacks.  Even cooler, the BGC program on…

In the Belly of Winter

In the Belly of Winter

Since 2023, Imbolc, or St. Brigid’s Day, has been celebrated on the first Monday in February as a national holiday in Ireland. One of the four ancient Celtic seasonal holidays (the others being Beltane on May 1, Lughnasadh on August 1, and Samhain on November 1), Imbolc is thought optimistically to mark the first day of spring. Were the holiday celebrated in Maine, we would probably hew closer to simply acknowledging the fact that it is the approximate midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Yes, dear reader, it is true: Another winter is halfway over. When you…

Words to Garden By

Words to Garden By

Contributed by Carol Herwig, TWiG committee chair Henry Mitchell was the garden columnist for The Washington Post, appearing weekly in thefeature section for more than 25 years. He must shoulder some of the blame for my interest in gardens and plants and trees, although he was more of a azalea man than an oak fan.He wrote about the right way to dig an iris bed, about how to adorn the fence between yourand your neighbor’s yard, about how to plant a clematis (dig deep, spread the roots and waitthree years).His columns were collected in a series of books – my…

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Wales Park Patch Forest

Members of the TWiG committee, led by the indefatigable Carol Herwig, have been busy this autumn clearing brush in the designated patch forest area of Wales Park. Culling over a thousand Norway maple seedlings by hand, girdling larger volunteer trees, and trimming low-growing and damaged branches on other trees kept the committee busy after meetings, but the work couldn’t have been completed without the help of Belfast Area High School students who volunteered time and labor as part of their hands-on learning in an environmental studies class. Park visitors will enjoy a safer landscape in the area where trees have…