The Merrimack Garden Club offers learning opportunities throughout the year that result in green and beautiful creations of nature ranging from annuals to perennials, to grasses and bulbs to delicate succulents. Tours of regional gardens, workshops, luncheons and socials are shared.

Hundreds of plants currently are being nurtured by the club’s members, local women and men and residents of other towns who are horticultural enthusiasts already in possession of proverbial green thumbs, or seeking to add a deeper emerald tint to the pale digits.

They gather once a month. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for chit chat before the group settles in for the 7 p.m. meeting on the fourth Tuesday of the month at St. James United Methodist Church, 646 Daniel Webster Highway. Refreshments often are freshly baked or crafted from fruits and veggies grown by club members. Honey for some hot tea may come from club member Isabelle Burke, a beekeeper.

Recently, Bernita Desmond, former publicity chairperson, noted that members plant and maintain various gardens and flower spots including the Merrimack Post Office, the curbside flower beds at the Merrimack Library and container boxes at several town’s parks.

“We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss and educate our members on gardening skills,” Desmond said. “We provide civic beautification through volunteer efforts and plant donations throughout the town of Merrimack.”

Guests are welcome. The club gathering on Tuesday, March 26, focused on hydroponics as explained by Twice the Roots plant growing system designer Brenda Frye, of Hollis. The audience included Lee Gilman, a board certified master arborist from Amherst and member of the Amherst Conservation Commission. Such is the repute of the Merrimack Garden Club. It grows on you.

Information on the Merrimack Garden Club and the club’s annual plant sale, upcoming, rain or shine, 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, June 8, at St. James United Methodist Church, 646 Daniel Webster Highway, can be had online: merrimackgardenclub.org.

Loretta Jackson may be contacted via email:

ljackson@nashuatelegraph.com