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Colleen Plimpton, Famous Author, Gardener & Lecturer will present a Program at Briarcliff Manor Garden Club
Briarcliff Manor Garden Club's Next Meeting
October 9, 201311:45-am
48 Macy Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 1051011:45-am
We welcome all to attend and we are accepting new membership.
Program: "All Season Color in the Garden"-Our speaker Colleen Plimpton is a famous author, gardener and lecturer. She will give one of her very famous PowerPoint lectures. "All Season Color in the Garden". She will guide you in choosing gorgeous critter resistant perennials, bulbs and annuals for your garden. Included are tips on easy care gardening and her organic homemade recipe for deer repellent. Colleen Plimpton spent 30 years in her first career as a clinical social worker with the chronically mentally ill. Her second career is that of professional garden communicator. Trained at the New York Botanical Garden, she has tended her sloping Connecticut acre for 21 years. Colleen has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs including CBS, ABC, Good Morning America and PBS; she pens a prize-winning newspaper column for Hearst Media Group; coaches gardening; has taught at the New York Botanical Garden; lectures widely; and writes for publications such as GreenPrints, Connecticut Gardener, and Toastmaster. Colleen’s multi-honored garden memoir, Mentors in the Garden of Life was a Finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year in the Memoir category. Colleen looks upon each day as an opportunity to learn more about the wonderful world of nature. She and her husband Jerry Shike raised 3 children, who now reside in Chicago, New York City, and Florida.
For more information, visit her website, www.colleenplimpton.com.
Contact Colleen at colleenplimpton@yahoo.com
See Colleen’s reviews at http://www.greatgardenspeakers.com/listing/reviews/colleen-plimpton
She is looking forward to seeing everyone.
Any questions: (914) 432-8529
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