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TWiG Dig (and Pull) At Wales Park

TWiG Dig (and Pull) At Wales Park

Members of the Belfast Garden Club TWiG Committee met this morning in Wales Park. Afterwards, many stayed behind to pull and dig out the invasive Norway maple seedlings that proliferate beneath the trees. This area of Wales Park has been targeted by TWiG, the City of Belfast, and a group of eager high school students and their teacher to become a patch forest. A patch forest is a wooded area, as small as 100 square feet, that is a complete biosphere, including understory or ground cover plants, perennials such as ferns, small trees and shrubs, and large shade trees, all…

Tree Planting at East Belfast Elementary School

Tree Planting at East Belfast Elementary School

Two trees, a magnolia and a red bud, purchased by the Belfast Garden Club education committee, have been planted in the front yard of East Belfast Elementary School. Two second-grade classes and their teachers helped to plant on October 18, joining Paula Smith and Sherri Hesse from the education committee, Lauren Glessing, the school district’s gardens coordinator, and TWiG committee members April Daly Cagnon, Alexa Clifford, Carol Herwig, and Brit Zeigler. A big thank you to Aubuchon Hardware in Belfast for supplying the trees with a generous discount. And thanks, too, to everyone who purchased plants at the May plant…

“Fly Rod” Crosby Debuts at the P.O.

“Fly Rod” Crosby Debuts at the P.O.

Cornilia “Fly Rod” Crosby once stated, “I am a plain woman of uncertain age, standing six feet in my stockings…I scribble a bit for various sporting journals, and I would rather fish any day than go to heaven.” Crosby was born on November 10, 1854 in Philips, Maine. In 1897, she became the first registered guide in the state, and for many years wrote a popular newspaper column about the Maine outdoors that was nationally syndicated. Her stories of life in the wild were an inspiration to girls and women of the era, and had much to do with popularizing…

The Scarecrow Builders

The Scarecrow Builders

Belfast Garden Club members gathered at the Alden House to build a scarecrow replica of Maine’s first guide, Cornilia “Fly Rod” Crosby. Crosby will soon take up residence in Post Office Square, where she will spend the autumn looking longingly down to Belfast Bay.

Belfast Garden Club 2024 Book Donations

Belfast Garden Club 2024 Book Donations

We’re excited to announce that the Book Donations Committee, co-chaired by Sharon Davenport and Marcia Ladd-Spears, has purchased and donated twenty-five books to three area libraries. These purchases are made with funds generated by the Belfast Garden Club’s spring plant sale and the summer open gardens days. Belfast Library Book Donations 2024 Adults: Wild: The Naturalistic Garden by Noel Kingsbury                                                                                                   The Seasonal Gardener:  Creative Planting Combinations by Anna Pavord The Regenerative Garden:  80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-Sustaining Garden Ecosystem by Stephanie Rose Companion Planting:  A Beginner’s Guide to Companion Planting Secrets by Chauncey Cruz Jr. The Forager’s Guide…

Wales Park Patch Forest

Wales Park Patch Forest

Come to Wales Park, at the corner of Lincolnville Avenue and Main Street, to add your muscle and your expertise to the creation of an in-town patch forest. Volunteers are needed beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 9 and Friday, October 11 to work with Belfast Area High School students (under the supervision of teacher David Thomas) and members of the TWiG committee to clear brush and thin trees along the park’s perimeter. The patch forest is a collaborative educational project between the Belfast Garden Club, the City of Belfast, and the Belfast Area High School. Urban patch forests…