Flower Show & Plant Sale blooms July 8

The Pocono Garden Club’s popular Flower Show and Plant Sale is set for Saturday July 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 158 Fish Hill Road, Tannersville.

Titled “Lights on Broadway,” the show will feature floral arrangements, made by members, depicting Broadway show themes like “Lion King”, “Hamilton”, “Madame Butterfly”, “Jersey Boys”, “Romeo and Juliet” and others.

Samples of club members’ prized horticulture and houseplants will be on display.

All the entries will be judged the day before the show. Ribbons and judges’ comments offer insight into what makes an arrangement, specimen or plant particularly special.

Speakers

Speakers will be Pamela Hubbard at 11 a.m. on “A native pollinator garden”; Master Gardener Sharon Carey at noon, “Houseplant Questions and Answers”; and Jacki Lash Idler at 1, “Gone to Pot With Herbs: Container Gardening With Herbs.”

Hubbard is a noted author, speaker, educator, garden coach and a specialist in English-style gardening. Born in England, Hubbard owns Pam’s English Cottage Gar- den in Effort. She writes an award-winning blog, and her monthly newspaper articles, Gardening in the Poconos, earned a Garden Comm 2019 silver medal. Pamela, a master gardener emerita, is frequently asked to train new gardeners for Penn State Extension. Her gardens have received three blue ribbons from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and were featured in the Summer 2020 edition of Country Gardens Magazine.

Jacki Lash Idler, self-described “Plantaholic on the Road to Recovery,” lives and gardens in Belvidere, N.J., with her husband and two canine companions. She is a past president of the Po- cono Herb Club and has held many positions in gardening organizations over 30 years. She has volunteered for numerous conservation groups and worked professionally in horticulture for more than 10 years. A gardener, plant enthusiast and environmental advocate, Idler grew up on “ancestral ground” in Denville, N.J.

Sharon Carey of Stroudsburg is a Master Gardener, longtime club member and former club officer who has extensive experience with all types of plants. She has spoken at past flower shows on such topics as creating a butterfly garden and gardening in a warming climate. She

See FLOWER SHOW, page 5