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  Our club symbol is the Pink Lady's Slipper Orchid
(Cypripedium  acaule).

The Pink Lady's Slipper Orchid was adopted as the official state wildflower of New Hampshire in 1991.

It is sometimes called the Mocccasin Flower and grows wild in the mixed hardwood and pine forests of Sandown.
 


 

     Calendar of Events

 
 

           

 

 

 
 

            May 7, 2012

Five Herbs No Home Should Be Without

Presented by:

Margie Gove and Ann Evangelista

7 PM  Sandown Recreation Center

 

 
 

            April 21, 2012

FREE SEEDS

Earth Day Celebration

Location:  Sandown Library

9 AM - 2 PM

 

 
 

            April 2, 2012

 

 

 
 

            March 5, 2012

Tom and Nora McElroy of

Newton Greenhouses Present

"Starting Up A Perennial Garden"

7PM Sandown Recreation Center

 
October 6, 2011
  Mark Traeger Presents
A Program On The Sandown Conservation Commission
7:00 PM
   
September 1, 2011
  Field Trip to Chester Hollow Water Gardens  
   
August 4, 2011
  Field Trip to Hosta Amour  
   
 
 
 
March 3, 2011:  "Get A Jump Start On Spring"
  Presented by Freshwater Farms  
   
  Rhonda Locke, the shop manager at Freshwater Farms, will present a program on how to get your garden off to a good start.

Door Prize: "Garden Basket"
Freshwater Farms Coupons for All Attendees
7:00 PM Sandown Town Hall (Rt. 121A)
Please Come and bring a friend or two.
 
 
April 7, 2011:  "Your Soil, Soil Science and Soil Fertility"
  Presented by Ron Christie, Master Gardener  
     
  Mr. Christie is the Master Gardener Coordinator in Rockingham County for UNH Cooperative Extension. He is also a Master Gardener volunteer and owns a certified organic vegetable and herb farm in Brookline, NH.             

7:00 P.M. Sandown Town Hall (Rt. 121A)        
Is your soil ready for the new gardening season?
 
 
June 2, 2011:  "Learn All About Container Gardening"
  Presented by Lawrence Dillon of  Dillon Old Farm Nursery  
     
 

For over thirty years, the nursery has sold annuals, perennials, vegetables, trees and shrubs. Mr. Dillon will demonstrate how to put together a container garden and will then donate it as a door prize.           

                       7:00 P.M. Sandown Town Hall (Rt. 121A)    
This wonderful learning program is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Please come.
 

 
   

   
June 4, 2011:  Annual Perennial Plant Sale
Locally grown perennials, herbs and shrubs.
  8:30 AM to 1:00 PM  
  Sandown Fire Department
Next to Town Hall (Rt. 121A)