Our monthly meetings generally include a speaker and a brief “Horticulture Hint” presentation, many with great handouts, which are available by clicking on the topic in the list below.
Horticulture Hint Handouts and Videos
- Celebrate the Halloween Season with Spooky Garden Helpers- Bats, Snakes & Spiders! (Christine Clements, Oct. 2022)
- Turning Fall Leaves into Gold (Becky Stoughton, Sep. 2022)
- Shop Locally for Native Plants (PDF) (Sue Stefanec, May 2022)
- Gardening for Birds (PDF) (Gail Coffey, April 2022)
- Veganic Gardening (5-min video) and Veganic Gardening handout (PDF) (Joan O’Brien, Nov. 2021)
- On the Wild Side: Wildflowers Along the Highways & Byways of Amherst (PDF) (Mary Salmon, Oct. 2021)
- Landscape Planting Tips to Establish Proper Plant Hydration (PDF) (Becky Stoughton, Sep. 2021)
- Success with Seedlings (PDF) (Becky Stoughton, Feb. 2021)
- Soil Testing (Video) Sue Makowiecki, Nov. 2020)
- Forest Bathing (Video) (Sue Stefanec, Oct. 2020)
- Rejuvenating and Caring for Bulbs (PDF) and Rejuvenating Your Bulb Garden (YouTube Video) (Karen Woodbury, May 2020)
- Go Wild for Birds and Butterflies Program (Gail Coffey, May 2020) and Native Plant Finder (National Wildlife Federation) Contact Gail at gcoffeywriter@gmail.com
- Weeding Without Glyphosate Leads to Weeding Without Worry (Sue Stefanec, Nov 2019)
- Lasagna Gardening (Jeanne Nevard, Sep 2019)
- Plant Communities (Joan O’Brien, Mar. 2019)
- Mary Salmon’s Infusion Recipes (Mary Salmon, Nov. 2018)
- Companion Planting for Our Gardens and Good Companion Planting for Vegetables and Herbs (Mary Salmon, Mar. 2017)
- Perennial Pairings A trio of complementary fall plants (Jeanne Nevard, Oct. 2016)
- Deadheading Roses (Joan O’Brien, Sept. 2016)
- Fall Gardening Tasks – Root-pruning and renewing shrubs; creating new garden beds (Joan O’Brien, Sept. 2015)
- Avoiding Ticks (Anne Krantz, May 2014)
- Growing Tomatoes (Christy Belvin, Apr. 2014)
- Seed Starting Basics (Sheila Steele, Mar. 2014)
- Fertilizing Houseplants (Joan O’Brien, Feb. 2014)
- Tidbits from 2014 Master Gardener Welcome Spring Symposium (Christy Belvin, Apr. 2013)
- Growing Hellebores (Susan Keirstead, 2013)
Perennials+ Handouts
Handouts and links for Perennials+ meetings have been moved to the new Perennials+ page.
Program Handouts, Recordings, etc.
- How to Attract Birds to Your Landscape: Handout and Slideshow provided by Gail Coffey on Feb 2, 2023
- Recipes to accompany cooking demonstration by Paula Garvey on May 5, 2022:
- Dahlia Resources provided by speaker Betsy Szymczak on Apr. 7, 2022
- Designing and Constructing the Entry Garden handout and plant list from slides presented by Warren Leach on Mar. 4, 2021
- Armchair Travel with Garden Club Members (Feb. 4, 2021)
- A Visit to Keukenhof (0.7 GB) presented by Joan Poltack. (Click past first two slides to start presentation.)
- A Cape Cod Garden (74 MB) presented by Marti Warren (Click past first slide to start presentation.)
- A Visit to Keukenhof (0.7 GB) presented by Joan Poltack. (Click past first two slides to start presentation.)
- Gardening in a Changing World (Zoom video) presented by Lisa Wise on Oct. 1, 2020.
- PowerPoint Slides from Lisa’s presentation
- Climate-Smart Gardening Audit from UNH
- Gardening in a Warming World from Cornell Cooperative Extension
- Climate change linked to potential population decline in bees from Science Daily
- Gardening Product Recommendations from garden club member and speaker Sue Makowiecki, Sept. 2020
- Encouraging Wildlife Diversity in Designed Landscapes (Zoom video) presented by Matt Tarr for The Amherst Garden Club on May 7, 2020.
- How to Grow Hydrangeas Webinar presented by Emma Erler for the Amherst Garden Club on April 2, 2020
- 10 Steps to an Organic Lawn, Organic Turf Care DIY Calendar, and NOFA Standards for Organic Land Care, provided or recommended by Britt Phillips of Complete Land Organics
- Growing Begonia Houseplants: A Quick Guide by Betsy Szymczak, President Buxton Branch American Begonia Society
- Monarch Butterfly Resource List and Milkweed Seed Planting by Donna Miller of Petals in the Pines
- Hydrangeas for the Northeast Garden by Cheryl Monroe of Garden in the Burrow
- Book recommendations from Pam Hunt of NH Audubon (Oct. 2018): The Nature of New Hampshire by Dan Sperduto and Ben Kimball and Bogs & Fens by Ronald B. Davis
- Perennial Division, Sharpening Pruners, Stretching for Gardeners, Yoga for Gardeners, and Reclaim Your Sanity Through List Making (articles recommended by Ann McEntee, Sept. 2018)
- Clematis: Tips for Success by (Cheryl Monroe, Apr. 2018)
- Buddy Planting (courtesy of Norma Weinberg)
- Dahlias and Other Flowering Bulbs (courtesy of Karen Woodbury; presented at Perennials+)
- Horticulture Hint-Perennial Pairings (courtesy of Jeanne Nevard; prepared for the Pepperell Garden Club) – two shade, ground cover plants that display nice fall foliage together. One has a thick, velvety, aromatic leaf, the other an airy, delicate habit.
- Terrarium Plants List and Care Sheet (courtesy of Art Scarpa)
- Grasses Hints and Tips (courtesy of Bill Holt, Willow Mist)
- Pumpkin Succulent Assembly and Care Instructions (Courtesy of Sue Alger and Deb Ferrelli)
- Water Garden Instructions (Provided courtesy of Peter Sevier, who notes that although these instructions call for use of a low voltage pump because it was required at his wife’s nursing home where his water garden was installed, generally a standard voltage pump would be used.)
I don’t know if this an acceptable request or not but here goes anyway. I am a retired Hollis science teacher and a local (Hudson, NH) gardener of many (too many to tell) years. This spring I have begun writing a blog that focuses on my vegetable and flower gardening, greenhouse and other related topics. Nothing innapropriate, political, religious or contoversial. There are pictures and stories. Some are instructional, some are comical and some, well you just have to read them to see. They are available at
http://vegetablegarden.home.blog
There are about a dozen posts so far with many more to come as the gardening season progresses. If you think these would be of interest to the Amherst Garden Club members please let them know how to access them.
I hope I haven’t overstepped in this request. See you at the spring plant sale!
John Kittredge
Jkitt750@comcast.net