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Pocono Garden Club to hold flower show

The Pocono Garden Club’s popular Flower Show and Plant Sale is back and at a new location.

After a two-year, COVID-related hiatus, the annual show and sale will be held on July 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 158 Fish Hill Road, Tannersville.

Titled “A Magical Kingdom, Disney in Flowers,” the show will feature floral arrangements, made by members, depicting Disney related themes.

Samples of club members’ prized horticulture and houseplants also will be on display. All the entries will be judged the day before the show.

Speakers will be: Taylor Breinich of Bartlett Tree Experts, at 11 a.m., discussing Caring for Woody Plants; and Pamela Hubbard, at 2 p.m., presenting on Gardening With Children.

Breinich is an arborist representative in Bartlett’s Emmaus office. A certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture and a licensed pesticide applicator, she grew up in the Lehigh Valley. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental biology and a master in public health.

Hubbard is a noted author, speaker, educator, garden coach and a specialist in English-style gardening. Born in England, Hubbard owns Pam’s English Cottage Garden in Effort. She writes an award-winning blog, and her monthly newspaper articles, Gardening in the Poconos, earned a GardenComm 2019 silver medal.

Pamela, a master gardener emerita, is frequently asked to train new gardeners for Penn State Extension.

Ongoing through the day will be the club’s extensive plant sale. Always a crowd-favorite, the Pocono-grown plant sale offers perennials, trees, shrubs, houseplants, herbs and more grown by club members and local friends in their own gardens and homes. Club members have been busily digging up and potting plants that have flourished in their own yards in hopes they will flourish in yours. This year’s offerings include dogwoods, curly willow, lilacs, Rose of Sharon, Shasta daisy, foxglove, hostas, lambs’ ear, sedum, lilies, thyme, and more.

The Marketplace offers assorted new and gently used garden- and plant-related items at bargain prices.

Proceeds help support the Garden of Giving, which grows fresh produce for food-insecure local people. The club also supports youth camp scholarships to Quiet Valley Living History Farm and the Monroe County Conservation District.

For more information on the show or the club, contact club President Nell Cadue at poconogardenclub@gmail.com or visit the club’s Facebook page.

The club meets the second Tuesday of most months at the Monroe County Conservation District, 8050 Running Valley Road, Bartonsville. Membership is $15 per year. Guests are welcome at meetings.

Pamela Hubbard is one of the speakers of the event. She will talk about “Gardening With Children.” CONTRIBUTED PHOTO