Belfast Garden Club

Do you remember the exhilaration you feel the first time you dig into the soil each spring, the way it feels between your fingers, and how good it smells? Has the recent sun got you plotting and planning this year's gardening pursuits? Mark your calendar, The Belfast Garden Club's Annual Green Thumb Plant Sale will take place Saturday, May 15th 9-11am, at The Belfast Boathouse (at the harbor end of Commercial Street). A wide array of annuals, perennials, vines, herbs, and vegetables will be available and aching to be planted in your garden. Other Gardening related items will also be for sale.  The annual plant sale is a benefit for Belfast Garden Club activities in the community and our scholarship fund for higher education relating to the goals of the Club.

If you are a gardener and you will be dividing perennials, or starting extra seedlings this spring, please consider donating them to the Belfast Garden Club Green Thumb Plant Sale! To do so, deliver the labeled and potted plants to The Belfast Boathouse on Friday, May 14 from 10 a.m. until Noon.  For questions about the plant sale, or for  alternative drop off options, please call Diane Allmayer-Beck 338-3105.

The Belfast Garden Club has promoted civic beautification and presented speakers to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening since 1929. The Belfast Garden Club is responsible for maintaining over 12 public gardens in the City; The Public Landing, Public Restrooms (Water-Loo), Post Office Square, Belfast Free Library Gardens, City Hall, Margaret's Point, Crab Tree Alley and Pavilion at City Park, Coast Guard Station, Police Station, Historical Society and Thompson's Wharf. This year we are using a $5000 grant from the Golden Rule Foundation to improve the garden around the Chapel at the Grove Cemetery. Look for the Pink Tulips planted to support Breast Cancer Research that are planted in front of the Chapel; they should be blooming soon! The Garden Club hosts the Open Garden Days all summer, gives a $1000 scholarship to a college student each year, donates $500 to the Troy Howard Middle School for their garden, and donates $250 for gardening and related books to the library each year, has monthly environmental and conservation talks as well as monthly speakers on garden related topics. All of our meetings and talks are open to the public. We also donate towards the Christmas Wreaths on the city lampposts and decorate the Library trees at the Holidays. The Club welcomes new members year round.

Garden Club members Peg Allen, Diane Allmayer-Beck and Peg Frees digging and potting plants for last year's Green Thumb Sale.