OLD LYME — Duck River Garden Club (DRGC) members are not letting COVID-19 stop them from sharing and showing their love of gardening, so programs and meetings have been moved online.
The club also welcomes friends and neighbors to ‘Like’ and ‘Follow’ their new Facebook page and find the latest program information on their redesigned website, www.
The following virtual program is open to the public: Miles S. Sax, Ph.D., Connecticut College Arboretum Director, will give a presentation Tuesday, Oct. 27, titled All about Apple Trees.
The schedule for the evening is as follows:
6:30 pm social
7 pm speaker
8 pm business meeting for DRGC members.
All parts of the evening will be on Zoom, non-members who want to participate, contact Karen Geisler, DRGC President, at karengr007@gmail.
Sax manages the Arboretum’s 750-acre landscape, which encompasses natural areas, greenhouses, specialty gardens and plant collections. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Garden Leadership and a doctorate in Horticultural Biology from Cornell University. His academic focus and research has revolved around issues of urban and environmental horticulture, tree selection and evaluation, stress physiology and rare plant conservation.