Oxford Garden Club is active throughout the year beyond our monthly meetings. Our activities can range from field trips to growing food for a local food pantry. There’s always something to do and enjoy.
Below are the special activities hosted by Oxford Garden Club from March 2024 – March 2025.
Pop-Up! “Sneak Peak at the Talbot County Pilgrimage”
April 11, 2024, 2pm
Oxford Community Center
Speaker: Zanda Nammack
Free, Open to the Public
The Pilgrimage is a ‘must not miss’ annual event in Talbot County. the public is invited to visit seven of the most culturally and historically significant properties in the county … not to mention the most stunningly beautiful ones. The proceeds generated by the tour will help restore and preserve two historic churches in Trappe.
Email: zandinammack@gmail.com, Cell: 973-476-6211
Tablescapes 2024 ‘Shell We Dine?’
April 17, 2024, 1-4pm
Presented by Garden Club of the Eastern Shore
Speaker: Laura Dowling, author and former Chief Floral Designer at the White House
Tickets required
‘Tablescaping’ is the art of strategically arranging your tabletop décor to highlight a certain mood, theme, color, holiday, style, celebration or a collection. It can be elaborate, casual, artistic, whimsical or formal. Tablescape elements often include centerpieces, lines, china, chargers, glassware, flatware, props, favors, candlesticks, place cards, custom-printed menu cards.
Take home ideas for your own tablescapes!
Decorate the Surrey – in the Boat Yard
April 26, 2024
Set up for OGC plant sale popup at the Oxford Community Center.
Oxford Day!
April 27, 2024
Opening weekend for the Oxford Ferry and the Oxford Museum.
The Oxford Garden Club is an annual parade participant, famous for our people—powered, flower-bedecked surrey.
Following the parade, join us at the Oxford Community Center along with other community groups. We will have a native plants POPUP sale. These plants are dug from our own gardens.
OGC members who are Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists will be on hand to answer your questions about gardening for and with Nature.
The Church of the Holy Trinity ECW holds its own annual plant sale, too, so there will be lots of plants for your garden! It is well known for its hanging baskets, beautiful perennials and just-in-time geraniums.
Talbot County House & Garden Pilgrimage
May 11, 2024
For one day, seven of the most historic and beautiful homes and gardens are open tothe public for guided tours. The Talbot County Pilgrimage is organized by the Talbot County Garden Club. The proceeds support preservation and restoration of two historically significant churches in Trappe. The Oxford Garden Club joins our sister club as docents and flower designers.
TICKETS REQUIRED. Contact Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage at mhgp@aol.com.
Memorial Day
May 27, 2024
Memorial Day is a solemn occasion to remember and honor those who gave their lives in service to our country. The town honors them and their families with a solemn ceremony with prayers and wreath laying at the town’s Blue Star Memorial. Oxford Garden Club creates the wreaths.
Oxford Garden Club’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
June 7, 2024, 2-5pm
Oxford Community Center
It’s time for high tea with members of Oxford Garden Club, past and present! Join us to help us celebrate.
Free and Open to the Public.
Smokey Cat Lavender Farm Hort Workshop
June 15, 2024, 8-noon
Smokey Cat Lavender Farm
FIELD TRIP and WORKSHOP
Oxford Garden Club will have its own celebration of all things lavender at Smokey Cat Lavender Farm. This is a lovely hobby farm with fields of lavender and a charming gift shop with a wide range of artisanal lavender items.
We will create our own unique lavender wreathes from the lavender bunches we have harvested ourselves! See Maryland Farm and Harvest, Bring your snips! And $40 for the workshop fee and materials.
LIMITED to 20 people. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
FEE: $40.00 for the workshop and materials.
TRANSPORTATON: carpool or on your own.
GUESTS welcome if space permits.
More here from Attraction magazine: https://attractionmag.com/2020/06/23/smokey-cat-lavender-farm
Holiday Party!
December 5, 2024
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Wreaths presented at the Blue Star War Memorial Marker along U.S. Route 301