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Be A Rose Garden Volunteer! winterizing a garden workshop

Sign up today to help prepare the Rose Garden for the coming winter at our "Winterizing Workshop". Help us prune, protect and clean up the rose garden beds, and learn tips to prepare your garden at home for the winter season. Refreshments will be served.

Help will be on hand to answer questions and instruct you from 9 am to noon on Saturday, November 12, 2011. Attendance is open to anyone, and we ask all volunteers to dress for a mess. It will be fun! Please bring your own rakes, bi-pass hand pruners and gloves if you have them!

We are looking for volunteer help in a variety of ways based on your level of interest, area of expertise and commitment of time! Read more about other opportunities below.

BECOME A BLOOM BUDDY TODAY!!!

bloom buddy Now that the Rose Garden has been planted...we need Garden Volunteers to help with the care and maintenance of the roses throughout the year.

Bloom Buddies (BBs) go through a special volunteer training program to learn the skills they need to care for the different roses in the Walnut Hill Rose Garden. The training program consists of:

1 hour classroom instruction on rose garden maintenance and
4 hours of supervised hands-on training with an experienced gardener

Upon completion of the training program, BBs are identified with a special vest signifying their commitment and the hours they have put into the garden. BBs can come and go and they like, working in the garden, provided they wear their vest to identify themselves as approved garden workers.

All hours spend in the garden beds must be logged online to track volunteer time, and so we can occasionally check your work. Bloom Buddies also assist in teaching other volunteers on the community-wide volunteer days, like the Captains did on our Planting Day.

Learn about our Bloom Buddy program at our next Bloom Buddy Information Session (which fulfills the 1 hour classroom instruction requirement):

Sessions will be held at McCue Mortgage, One Liberty Square, New Britain, CT 06051 (get directions here)

Submit the form below to let us know your interested in becoming a Bloom Buddy today!!!

Here are just a few other ways you can get involved:

Master Gardeners in need of outreach hours are welcome to volunteer in ways that fit your schedule. Contact us for more information.
Fundraising and promotion are an important part of this project. Please make a donation today or help us recruit financial support.
Planning events is a lot of work and we hope to have many as we begin planting and teaching others about the Rose Garden.
Calling all Rosarians, rose and horticultural experts! Help us plan our planting and care for our garden all year round.

Use the form above to sign up for these opportunities too! Thanks for your support.

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Help out at our final event of the 2011 season