In-person meetings of Brighton Garden Club have been suspended until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We hope to see you at one of our meetings in the future when the pandemic is over.

Brighton Garden Club has cancelled all regularly scheduled meetings until September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We have cancelled the April meeting of Brighton Garden Club in an effort to inhibit the spread of the coronavirus.

We hope to see you at our May meeting.

Join Brighton Garden Club at our next meeting on Thursday, March 12 at 10:30 a.m.

Our featured speaker will be Drew Lathin, owner of Creating Sustainable Landscapes. He will discuss design, installation and management tips and techniques that lead to successful native plantings.

Brighton Garden Club meets at Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. We begin with a business meeting at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured presentation from noon to 1 p.m.

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At the February 13 meeting of Brighton Garden Club, our featured speaker will be Michael Rodriguez, owner of Luella Acres cut flower farm in Dexter.

Michael will talk about techniques and experiences from one full season of growing, also explaining how to translate his tips to benefit a smaller-scale cutting garden. He’ll focus mostly on annual cut flower production, touching on some indispensable biennial and perennials to help fill in the gaps.

Brighton Garden Club meets at Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. We begin with a business meeting at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured presentation from noon to 1 p.m.

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At the January 9 of Brighton Garden Club you can learn to brew kombucha, a traditional fermented tea-based beverage with countless flavor variations. Our featured speaker is Certified Nutrition Therapy Practitioner Samantha Gardener.

Samantha will provide a live demonstration and share recipes. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to purchase a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to make your own kombucha at home.

Brighton Garden Club meets at Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. We begin with a business meeting at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured presentation from noon to 1 p.m.

Join us!

Attend the November meeting of Brighton Garden Club to learn about land conservancy and why it matters.

Sara Thomas, a founding member of Livingston Land Conservancy and the current Land Acquisition Chair of the group, will speak about the history of the Conservancy, how land protection works and why it is so vital for the future of human health, diversity of species and fighting climate change. She will also share ways that we can help the organization with its work.

Brighton Garden Club meets the second Thursday of every month September through June at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. Our business meeting begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured speaker at noon.

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If you love a good yarn, this month’s featured presentation is for you.

“A Garden to Die For: Poison Plants and Evil Herbs” is full of fascinating stories combining botany, history and the pharmacological effects of many well-known plants. Advanced Master Gardener Arla McPeek is the presenter.

Brighton Garden Club meets the second Thursday of every month September through June at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton. Our business meeting is at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured speaker at noon.

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No garden is too big or too small to benefit from a water feature, says Brian Kerschbaum from Waterscape, Inc. He is the featured speaker for our September meeting.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 12 at 10:30 a.m. at the Brighton Community Center, located at 555 Brighton Street in Brighton.

Meetings begin with a discussion of club business at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and socializing at 11 a.m. and our featured speaker at noon.

Join us!

The Brighton Garden Club and the Brighton Veterans Memorial Committee will be honoring the women of the Greatest Generation at 10 a.m. on August 14, 2019 as two special Rosie the Riveter rosebushes are added to the garden at the Veteran’s Memorial at Mill Pond Park.

“Rosie the Riveter” is the nickname for the millions of female workers who stepped in to fill critical jobs left behind when men were called to fight in World War II. These hard-working women built the tanks, ships and planes that the Allies needed for victory. In an era when women were not expected to work outside of the home and female factory workers were rare, the “Rosies” also proved that “We Can Do It!”

The rosebushes are provided by the Willow Run Chapter of the American Rosie the Riveter Association (ARRA) as part of an initiative to plant over 80 Rosie the Riveter rosebushes in Michigan this season. ARRA was founded in 1998 by the WWII “Rosies” themselves for the purpose of providing fellowship and preserving their stories and legacy. The ARRA has over 6,000 members nationwide, with over 500 members in Michigan.

The roses are of a new variety called the “Rosie the Riveter Floribunda Rose” developed by Weeks Roses to honor the female home front workers of WWII. This hardy variety of rose has a beautiful orange-red bloom and will bloom continually throughout the season.

“We are delighted that the Brighton Veterans Memorial is providing a permanent home for some of our Rosie the Riveter rosebushes,” says Nancy J. Zajac, president of the Willow Run Chapter of ARRA, “And we hope that they will add beauty to the Memorial while representing the important wartime contributions of the ‘Rosies’.”

“The Rosie the Riveter rosebushes will be a wonderful addition to the garden at our Veterans Memorial, and will allow the ‘Rosies’ of WWII to symbolically take their place in support of our servicemen and women, just as they did in WWII,” says Brighton Garden Club member Jane Wilson.