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Welcome to the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club!
Join us as we celebrate a century of commitment to the community.
“On Wednesday, May 11, 1927, sixteen women gathered together to discuss the possibilities of forming a Garden Club. They elected a group of temporary officers… Mrs. Goodrich Smith was appointed chairman of a committee to draw up a constitution to be submitted at a meeting called for May 24, 1927 ...
The organizational meeting was held as scheduled on May 24, 1927. Twenty who were present voted adopting the Constitution and Bylaws and definitely established a society to be known as the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club.”
During the years that followed — now 100 of them! — the club held Flower Shows, planted Victory Gardens and raised funds for the Red Cross and the USO. They wrote letters to protest the use of DDT and to limit billboards along state roads. They were keenly aware of the environment and the importance of protecting it. And they planted trees. LOTS of trees! Elm trees, dogwoods, crabapples... the streets and town greens of Woodbury are awash with flowering trees every spring because of the efforts of the members of the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club. |
UPCOMING PROGRAMS & CENTENNIAL EVENTS
 Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Woodbury Fire Department Headquarters, 25 Quassuk Rd, Woodbury
“Houseplants by Design: Adding Plants to Your Décor"
with Tovah Martin
You want houseplants, you need houseplants – but do you really utilize houseplants to their fullest potential? This lecture is filled with photos and inspiration from Tovah’s own massive collection of houseplants – exploring some of the most rewarding houseplants appropriate for all types of home situations and varying window exposures. We talk about what to grow where and how to host houseplants. But beyond the practical advice, the lecture features ideas for profiling your plants beautifully and artistically. Your houseplants could be so much more than just the green blob in the corner. The lecture connects design principles that relate to houseplants. We discuss ways to pair houseplants and profile them meaningfully to work with your décor, presenting containers that really make your houseplants shine with personality.
Your habitat needs houseplants—why not do it with panache?
Tovah Martin is the author of numerous books including The Garden in Every Sense and Season (2018), The Indestructible Houseplant (2015), The Unexpected Houseplant (2012), and The New Terrarium (2009). One of her earliest books, Tasha Tudor’s Garden (1994) remains a classic. Most recently, she was a lead writer on the international team that authored The Contemporary Garden (Phaidon, 2025). She has been honored by many awards including The Garden Club of America’s award for outstanding literary achievement. In 2013, she received the Gustav Mehlquist Award—the highest honor bestowed by the Connecticut Horticultural Society.
9:30 am (Club Business Meeting) ~ 11 am (Program)
GUESTS WELCOME!
$5 donation for non-members
Who We Are
The objectives of the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club in Woodbury, Connecticut, are to promote an interest in gardens, horticulture, floral and landscape design; to cooperate in the protection of wild flowers, trees and birds; and to encourage public plantings, beautification and conservation.
We are a working club! Our members are responsible for many local beautification projects, including the installation and maintenance of plantings at many of the town’s parks and greens. Take a drive through town and chances are you will see the handiwork of dedicated garden club members! You may even see club members at work, sporting purple t-shirts, as they dig, plant, mulch, and more. Club members also maintain two award-winning sites at Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust: the Botany Wildflower Trail—established by club members in 1965 and continuously maintained ever since—and the Monarch Waystation, a habitat restoration project installed by the club in 2011 and expanded in 2015, part of a an international effort to save the endangered monarch butterfly. The club also sponsors monthly informational meetings and field trips, on topics from floral design to conservation and environmental issues.
Membership is open to those interested in participating in the implementation of these projects and objectives.
Learn more about our club in this short video ~ Click here for our color brochure!
Contact our membership chairman for details at membership@pomperaugvalleygc.org
Click here for "Woodbury Public Gardens: A Self-Guided Tour"
SAVE the Monarchs!
2026 Monarch Status: a 1,640 mile trek!
Oct 11, 2016
"Monarchs have reached Mexico on their migration south!
Individually tagged monarchs through the Project Monarch Collaboration from Manitoba, Minnesota, and Ontario have crossed over, confirming that migrating monarchs from Canada and the northern United States have arrived in Mexico.
Three monarchs carrying Bl?Morpho transmitters were detected in the state of Coahuila late on the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 5, between 1,400 and 1,640 miles from their release sites in Manitoba, Minnesota, and Ontario. All three were detected within 48 minutes of each other through Bl?+, the tracking network that lets everyday phones, tablets and computers, along with Motus-compatible receiver stations, pick up a tagged monarch as it passes. You can read more about this collaboration from the Monarch Joint Venture, which runs Journey North.
Monarchs usually begin reaching the overwintering sites as October turns to November. It won't be long before we begin receiving reports of the first monarchs from the oyamel fir forests.
However, it's also worth noting that these arrivals will not be all at once. While the leading edge of migration may have reached Mexico, there is still plenty of time for monarchs further north to complete the migration, and the bulk of the roost reports have come from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas recently." — Read more here!
"Tracking Individual Monarchs with Radio Tags as Part of the Project Monarch Collaboration"
 BluMorpho solar-powered radio transmitters (also referred to as “tags”) provide an amazing opportunity to track the paths of individual monarch butterflies. In particular, the ultralight tags can use Bluetooth crowd-sourced location networks to increase the number of detections. Visit the CTT/CMPASC Project Monarch website to learn more about how the project started and how Bl?Morpho tags work.
Monarch Watch deployed a total of 30 Bl?Morpho tags towards the end of September. Of the 30 monarchs that we tagged, 30% (9) have been detected in Mexico, 63% (19) in Texas, and 70% (21) in Oklahoma. Previous estimates (see Monarch Population Dynamics: Issues of scale) have suggested that 20% (or 1 out of 5) or fewer of monarchs that start the migration across the breeding range make it to the overwintering sanctuaries in central Mexico. Using the free Project Monarch Science app (download via your device’s app store), you can view lots of information about many of the tagged individuals. You can find the monarchs tagged by Monarch Watch in the Data tab by selecting the monarch icon at the top of the screen then searching for “MW”. When you look at the map view, make sure to zoom in as far as you can so that you are not missing any monarchs.
Please see the Monarch Watch Blog for the complete, fascinating blog about this exciting new technology for tracking monarchs! Be sure to check out the amazing tracking maps! |
Do you know your caterpillars?
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| Above, Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillar |
Above, Monarch caterpillar |
Join the fight to save these magnificent and iconic butterflies!
Consider becoming a "Citizen Scientist" -- you can help scientists understand and track the migration patterns of monarchs by reporting your own sightings here.
You can help save this magnificent species and their amazing migration -- plant native milkweed and nectar flowers for them!
Our PVGC Notecards are available!
You can purchase 8 stunning notecards for a $10 donation. Click here for more information.
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