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We Need Your Help on Saturday Oct. 27th - new date

Thanks to all the IGC members who have helped cleanup and replant our islands for the fall. So many of us have already worked to make Ipswich beautiful lately... and now we have another opportunity to help make a difference for Ipswich and that will be on Saturday, October 27th. Janet, Ann, and I are all members of the Shade Tree and Town Beautification Committee which is sponsoring this town-wide event. We are hoping to have a good showing of IGC members. It's 2 hours and a very good cause. Can we count on you? 

Thanks, Paula

Fall Cleanup at Getty Station

 From Ann:
"Here is a picture just taken at the Getty/Skillman station. Thank you, Mitzi, Susie and Jani for your hard work. Susie got the mulch from Brick Ends Farms, as well. Mitzi and her crew cut back everything on Saturday. We have beautified Ipswich in a big way this fall. Thank you to everyone who helped on all the projects around town and the Neck."

And from Mitzi:
 "Thanks Ann for the fun photo.  It looks so great!
 I also want to put in a very much appreciated "thank you" to the Sat. crew that Ann mentioned. The cutting back part on Sat. took nearly 3 hours.  A big thank you Nancy Howard, Judy Hallberg, and to Richard Howard for his very helpful part in the clean up and carry away process. We couldn't have done it without you. " Mitzi

IRWA Backyard Makeover... October 18th

Hi Janet,
I was wondering whether you might be able to spread the word to your Garden Club group about a great event we are hosting on October 18th here at our headquarters in Ipswich.
Cynthia Inglefinger

Thursday, October 18: 9:30am – 10:30am

Kate Hone will present her native landscaping journey. Kate’s one-third acre parcel with 91 feet of Ipswich River riverfront is  just downstream from the IRWA’s Riverbend headquarters. Over one season, with help from a Slow the Flow Grant from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Kate replaced non native species and barren mulched areas with drought tolerant and native plants. She also removed all impervious buried plastic sheeting from all areas of property, shrunk the lawn footprint and added rain barrels for irrigation. Come see the transformation process and learn first hand how to apply it to your property. Optional site visit to follow.

cingelfinger@ipswichriver.org or call 978-412-8200

Transformation at Pavilion Beach

What a transformation at the Pavilion Beach signage accomplished on Saturday, October 6, 2012.  Thank you to the Ipswich Garden Club members Paula Jones, Laurie McAleer, Mary Smith and Maureen Leonard with the invaluable help from DPW workers, Mark Phaneuf and Scott Woodburn.Thanks to Steve Caleb for the supplies of mulch, Corliss Mix, and soil mix. It takes a team effort to create something extraordinary.  That's what happened on Saturday.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU,

Maureen

Welcome to Pavilion Beach and to Fall.

Fall Market Street Island

Dear Garden Club members--Take a trip down to the Market St. island and drive by the Hall Haskell House and see what a great job our gardeners did this weekend. I am extending a special thank you to Susie Glessner, Maureen Leonard, Joyce Kippen, Paula Jones, Nancy Howard, Deb Trevarrow, Johanna Zabriskie,Terri Stephens. Susie picked up the mulch in her truck at Brick Ends Farms and left it for us to use and the rest of the girls worked their fannies off preparing the beds, shoveling the mulch into the beds at both Market St and Hall Haskell, and then planting Mums at Market St. Thank you, ladies, for your dedication.

I would like to thank Ray Morley for the use of his truck to pick up mulch, as well. We just have the Getty Station to finish and we will be set for winter.

Ann