Surry Garden Club

05/24/2026

WE'RE BACK!!! The Surry Garden Club's Annual Plant & Bake Sale, coming up this Saturday, 9 to 11, in the Rural Hall, 680 Surry Road. We took a year off in 2025 but we're back to our usual schedule of "always the last Saturday in May".

And we'll be there, rain or shine, because it's all indoors. We never know what we'll have on offer till our members bring in divisions and seedlings from their gardens, but there's always plenty of surprises. Our pricing guideline: "Reasonable & Friendly".

Stop by for coffee & muffins & shoptalk with your gardening neighbors and leave with a box full of new plants for your garden!

05/07/2026

What a great way to spend a morning in May - arranging and delivering 200 vases of "Flowers for Neighbors"!

Club distributes more than 2,600 daffodils to 200 recipients across the peninsula and Deer Isle

04/16/2026

We are really excited to host Chad Hammer, invasive plant biologist with the Maine Dept. of Ag, Conservation and Forestry for this
important educational effort, co-sponsored by the Evergreen Garden Club of Deer Isle. You may not succeed in eradicating the invasive plants in your neighborhood, but you can - and should! - understand why they are a problem and learn best practices to manage them. Birds, bees, moths, butterflies and bats will thank you!

We'll have the wood stove going if needed, but the historic Rural Hall can be chilly in April, so bundle up. All are welcome; hearty refreshments served at 12:30. The department's excellent Invasive Plants Field Guide will be available for sale.

The Hall has plenty of room! We would love to see widespread progress on managing the invasive plants in our beautiful coastal towns. Please pass the word, friends at Bar Harbor Garden Club, Bucksport Garden Club, Blue Hill Heritage Trust, Blue Hill Garden Club and the Ellsworth Garden Club.

04/04/2026

Maybe this is something you can start in your town too? We've sown the seeds, now we just need to raise them till they're good and strong, and prepare the beds where we'll be planting them. If you want to learn more, and keep up with the progress, go to Surry Pollinator Pathway Project and hit the "follow" button.

The Surry Garden Club is creating the town’s first pollinator pathway, which will be only the third such pathway in the state of Maine.

04/02/2026

Next Weds, evening, we'll be back at the Rural Hall, where mycologist David Porter will lead us on an illustrated foray into the wondrous mushroom diversity of Downeast Maine.

By any measure, interest in ‘all things fungal’ among the general public is mushrooming. We want to know more about where mushrooms come from and what they are doing out there. Our increased attention to wild foods is leading us into foraging for edible mushrooms while at the same time, heightening our caution of poisonous ones. But for all lovers of natural beauty, nature provides a limitless spectrum of colorful and unusual mushrooms to delight the eye and inspire the artist.

David Porter has many interests - from rockweed conservation and climate resilience to chorale singing and boating - but teaching mycology has been a lifelong journey. He graduated from Yale in 1963 (BS Biology) and the University of Washington in 1967 (PhD, Marine Mycology). At UGA, he taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate level classes in Biology and Mycology. After a 38-year career in academics, Porter moved full time to Naskeag Pt in Brooklin. Since coming to Maine, he has continued educating students of all ages, through mycology classes at CoA and Eagle Hill and with numerous mushroom-related outreach programs through various organizations. In his talk, Porter will lead us on an illustrated foray through a jungle of mushroom diversity, touching on common edible species and those to avoid while describing how these organisms are critical to the proper functioning of our forest ecosystems.

The presentation will be held in the Surry Garden Club's home at the historic Rural Hall, 680 Surry Road. It can be chilly for the first meeting in April, so we'll have the wood stove going, but dress warmly. All are welcome; refreshments served at 6:30. For more information: 207-460-1959.

03/19/2026

Come join us at The Gatherings for the launch of a Pollinator Pathway through the heart of Surry Village and beyond! Not a people path, but one for the bees and butterflies - and moths too. After a short presentation and Q&A, we'll be planting native seeds to take home.

All are welcome - $2 suggested donation - refreshments at 12:30.

02/16/2026

Bienvenue! Are you in need of verdant relief from snow and ice? Come join us at The Gatherings this Sunday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. for "Two Visits to Les Quatre Vents in Quebec".

Two of our club's members were lucky enough to get tickets for Frank Cabot's world-famous garden last year - Joan went in June and Ana toured in August. They've gleaned their photo albums for the best shots and can't wait to share their insights and perspectives on this breathtaking garden.

All are welcome ~ refreshments served at 12:30.

01/27/2026

Many thanks to Clarisa and The Gatherings team for promoting our event and giving us a warm welcome on a frigid cold day! Our next Sunday afternoon program " Bienvenue! Two Visit to Les Quatre Vent, Quebec" will be on Feb 22. Two of our club members visited this famous garden last year, one in June and the other in August. They're comparing notes and putting together a slide show for us, for another great winter escape to the garden.

01/24/2026

Brrr! But the roads are clear, and Mainers know how to bundle up, right? We hope you'll join us for a winter escape to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, as seen through the lens of Nikolai Fox. We'll be meeting at The Gatherings, this Sunday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. All are welcome! Refreshments served at 12:30.

The photo below is of longtime Surry Garden Club member Pat Jencks, from the last time we visited this garden as a group.

01/17/2026

In the first of our two winter programs at The Gatherings, Nikolai Fox will discuss and share the lens based work he does for the Land & Garden Preserve, which includes the Abbie Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor. This presentation will be a window into the history of and current stewardship practices of the Preserve as seen through his lens.

All are welcome - refreshments served at 12:30