Pitchforks (and hydrant wrenches) aloft!

Flower Power! We are neighbors who are interested in bringing some botanical beauty to the bike-lane
tree pits so we have persuaded the city to allow us to garden there unimpeded. Anyone is welcome to
join at any level of involvement. There are no dues and no formal meetings; Just a desire to keep
Chelsea tree-lined and flower-filled. Join us!

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Though it may seem like Winter will never end...it's that time of year again! 

Let's all get together for the  
It's almost Spring meeting of the Chelsea Garden Club  
on 

Saturday March 10th at 12:00 
in the rectory of 

St. Peter's Church 
located on 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. 

This will be our seventh year as a group and the pits looked the prettiest ever last summer. Please help us celebrate our success and of course talk about this year's gardening season.  We have a few available pits that will need volunteers and a few volunteers that need pits.

Feel free to bring a friend, any extra seeds (for planting) and snacks (for eating). I will make the coffee. See you then.
Flower power!

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Hello Gardeners!
Only five months until Spring. Time to plant!

Phyllis and I will be picking up the daffodil bulbs on Sunday October 16 and will have them available for you  starting at 
1p at the corner of 20th Street and Ninth Avenue 
at the bench. 
They are free and will look nice in early Spring.

We will be there until about 3pm so bring a bag and get your bulbs.
If you can't get them, please make arrangements with another gardener to pick them up for you.

See you Sunday. Flower power!

Missy Adams
the Chelsea Garden Club

(p.s. Home Depot is selling 50 red tulip bulbs for $16)

Friday, October 7, 2016

DAFFODIL BULB GIVEAWAY

For Chelsea Garden Club gardeners,
We will be distributing bulbs on Sunday October 16 from 1 until 2 pm at my pit on 20th Street and Ninth Avenue. Come and get 'em! It's time to plant for Spring!
Flower Power!!

Monday, April 11, 2016

Pencil in June 25 for the Garden Walk aka the Chelsea Garden Club Pit Tour. Details to come.

Thursday, March 10, 2016


New date for the 2016 meeting:

The 2016 Spring meeting of the Chelsea Garden Club
will be on
Saturday April 9th at 12:15 in the rectory of St. Peter's Church
located on 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
This will be our fifth Spring as a group so please join us to celebrate our success and talk about this year's gardening season. We have a lot to discuss!
Feel free to bring seeds (for planting) and snacks (for eating). I will bring the coffee.
(p.s. Phyllis may still have some free native plants left over from the March 26 mulching. Let her know if you want some.)
Flower power!
Missy

p.s. Check out this week's Chelsea Now about what a bad week Mark has had. And how!
http://chelseanow.com/2016/03/water-main-work-wreaks-havoc-on-volunteers-tree-pits/

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR SATURDAY JULY 18

The 2015 Annual Chelsea Garden Club Pit Tour will be on Saturday, July 18. Let's meet at 9:30 AM at 23rd Street and 7th Avenue in front of the Papaya hot dog shop.
Or sleep in and you can meet us at 10 AM at 23rd Street and 8th Avenue in front of  Dallas Barbecue.
    We'll mosey up Eighth Avenue to 30th Street and then cut over to Ninth Avenue and make our way South down to about 17th Street and then loop back to Eighth and head back North finishing at 23rd. So if you want to join in at any point, just look for a large group of people staring at one of the avenue tree pits.
Flower power!



Tuesday, June 16, 2015

One of our gardeners sent us this:

Garden Dialogues:

In June, get exclusive access to private gardens in New York City, The Hamptons, and Westchester, and hear directly from the designers and their clients about their collaborative process. Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to visit some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished designers currently in practice.
It's $45 for a garden tour and it starts this Saturday, June 20 at 10am with a tour of a Midtown Sky Garden in Manhattan. The award-winning, 6,500 square-foot terrace of the Midtown Manhattan Sky Garden takes advantage of panoramic skyline views while providing an intimate garden backdrop to the mid-century-modern building’s newly-renovated interior workspace. Richly textured and seasonally diverse plantings include a dense blanket of drought-tolerant prairie grasses, wildflower perennials, and spring flowering bulbs, punctuated by flowering Crab Apple trees. 

Our own gardener, Michael at 20th St and Ninth Ave. is hosting a tour of the Bakwin Estate in Ossining on Saturday June 20, 1:30 to 3:30pm | Ossining
M. Bakwin Estate
Michael V. Ruggiero, RLA of MVR Landscape Garden
Nestled among an impressive array of large rock outcrops, this Tudor-style home and garden offers panoramic views of its central ten-acre groomed landscape. From the house and terraces, visitors enjoy a vista of towering trees, spacious lawn areas, dramatic rock outcroppings, lush gardens brimming with seasonal color, a three-acre pond, orchards, and meadows. An 'integrated' deer fence protects such gardens as the vegetable garden, a Japanese style garden, and a perennial border. Forty acres of mature, deciduous forest completely enclose the property. A dense, planted understory and years of moss overgrowth carpet the forest floor and exposed rock, revealing the interplay between the designed and natural and celebrating the rugged vernacular New York landscape.  
Go to tclf.org/ for more information about tours and tickets.