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Welcome to the 2009 gardening season.

The annual Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, July 25th
Additional Garden Tour tickets are $10 each if paid in advance by 7/17/08 or $15 on the day of the Tour.
Annual dues are $20, which will include one Garden Tour ticket.

Tickets may be ordered by mail for $10 each. Mail checks to: SCGC, PO Box 3591, Breckenridge, CO 80424 prior to July 17th. (Tickets will be $15 at the door)

Tickets are also available at the following places: Neils Lunceford Nursery, Alpine Gardens, Summit Landscaping, Breckenridge Garden Center, and the Summit County Community/Senior Center in Frisco and may also be purchased from members of Summit County Garden Club.

Annual Garden Poster: This year we are working with the high school art teacher, Nancy Branca, who has assigned the poster creation as an assignment to two of her classes and will be choosing one student's artwork.
It's sure to be great. Keep an eye here for the winning poster.


Garden Tour slide show


The Summit County Garden Club promotes gardening in its monthly meetings.

Membership information

Each year the club sponsors a Garden Tour. A wide variety of gardens are featured. The proceeds further the club's mission.

Please check out our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page. Submit any question you would care to and we will get back to you and/or forward your question to an appropriate resource.

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy your gardening!

Monthly Meetings

Tuesday, May 12th and Tuesday, May 19th – 6:00 p.m
Fuqua Livery Stable in Breckenridge (Washington St. between Main and Ridge, across from Barney Ford Museum) We will be creating mosaic flower pots with Michelle Woods of CO Mountain College.
The first session we will glue tile pieces to a clay planter. The second session we will be applying the grout. The cost for this project is $30 per person for members only. Please consider joining the Garden Club.
Membership information

More Notes & Information:

Summit County Garden Club
PO Box 3591,
Breckenridge, CO 80424

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The CSU Extension office may always be contacted for more information and help: CSU Extension Agent 970-668-4140 

Of Interest:
Please check out: silvanascommunitygardens

A community-wide interest in forming a community garden, honoring Silvana Del Piccolo's life time love of gardening is being developed just south of the Rec Center in Silverthorne, CO. Please take a look at the website for more information.

Plant Select® is a program designed to seek out and distribute the very best plants for gardens from the high plains to the intermountain region.
http://www.plantselect.org/

See photos of the "Breckenridge Alpine Garden" which incorporates some of the plants from the Plant Select® program. Breckenridge Alpine Garden Plant Select photos
The club plants and maintains Plant Select plants at the Breck Gardens. do come by and take a look.