We Need Your Plants

RCGC needs your plants for our booth at the Proud Market Plant sale - Saturday, May 24 (Memorial Day weekend), 8 am till the plants run out. Come early, the best things sell fast. This is a fantastic sale - specialty vendors, great finds and great prices.

Bring us your perennial divisions, extra annuals, etc., during the week before Memorial Day weekend. You can leave them in the courtyard behind the building if we are not open. Try to label them with as much information as you know - name of plant, flower color, etc. Sales at our booth benefit the education program and library. For more information, see our website and the summer catalog.

Courtyard Rehabilitation Project

The installation of the second flagstone walk hit a major snag when this 6 - 8 inch thick concrete sidewalk was unearthed late last year (as the snow began to fly). Ever resourceful and energetic, RCGC volunteer Rhea took it upon herself to start breaking the sidewalk up this morning - by hand.

Love the technique.

Rhea, you're our hero.

Addendum:

Progress!

By 3pm the sidewalk looked like this

Trough Planting Demystified

RCGC Director Christine Froehlich has an article in the current issue of Rochester Magazine (May-June 2008) on Betsy Knapp and her incredible hypertufa troughs. Betsy has perfected the art of making these troughs in her own distinctive, immaculately finished style, and sells them on consignment and at Bristol's Garden Center.

Betsy got into trough making to have somewhere to plant the alpine rock garden plants that she has grown to love: "I didn't want one or two, I wanted lots of them." And she has lots of them, planted with everything from alpines to miniature vegetables.

Betsy has a class coming up very soon at RCGC: "Trough Planting Demystified," Saturday May 10 at 10-11:30 am. There is still space in the class; see the Winter-Spring Catalog on our website for more information, and call or email to sign up.

Position Available

Rochester Civic Garden Center
Administrative Coordinator
Part time, 24 hour per week position.
Candidates must have strong computer skills with a financial background and understanding of Quickbooks, Microsoft Office (Excel and Word) and HTML (for website maintenance).
Good interpersonal and organizational skills are desirable. Must have some flexibility to work occasional weekends and evenings for special events.
Send cover letter and resume to: Christine Froehlich at rcgccf@frontiernet.net

2008 Spring Symposium

Some images taken by Guy Coppola at our recent event (as one participant put it, “The best symposium yet.” But they all are...)

Buying raffle tickets

Andrew Fowler and his witch hazels

Gordon Hayward

Karen Bussolini




The Marketplace

What a Beautiful Dress!

Lucinda Snyder, who has an upcoming knitting class at RCGC, knit this dress for her January wedding. What a gorgeous work of art! The pattern is from Vogue Knitting's 25th Anniversary edition.

Butterfly Soiree Date Change

To all of you who downloaded earlier versions of our on-line or PDF Winter-Spring catalog (as of 1/02/08 the information is correct) the date for our Butterfly Soiree at Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden at the Strong Museum has changed.

The new date is Tuesday, January 29, same time, 6-8 pm.

Hope you can all come!