THE BETHLEHEM
GARDEN CLUB

To Serve the Community
To Conserve Our Natural Resources
To Support Education
To Increase Our Knowledge

CLUB NEWS

A new community garden has been constructed this spring in front of Bethlehem Town Hall on the corner of Delaware Ave. and Borthwick. This is a walk through garden that is accessible and and can be enjoyed by all ages!! In the garden, you'll find magnolia trees, viburnum bushes and many perennials. 

The Bethlehem Garden Club sponsored its 10th Annual Garden Tour and Plant Sale on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 from 4 to 8 PM. 

TAKE THE TOUR ONLINE!

Money raised from the Garden Tour will be used to enhance the Club’s sponsored community gardens at the triangle for Kenwood and Cherry Ave.; Rt. 9W near Rt. 32; in Selkirk at Maple Ave. and Cottage Lane; and, on Delaware Ave. near the “Yellow Brick Road” (across from Hoffman’s car wash). 

Money raised from the Plant Sale enables the Club to offer a yearly educational grant to a ele­mentary classroom teacher in the Bethlehem, RCS school districts to be used for teaching/sharing Environmental curriculum/projects. 

THE BLUEBIRD IS OUR NEW YORK STATE BIRD

THE ROSE IS OUR STATE FLOWER

THE TULIP REPRESENTS ALBANY'S HERITAGE WITH THE NETHERLANDS

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM IS A SYMBOL OF OUR BETHLEHEM GARDEN CLUB

THE BLUE BIRD - or Sialia sialis - a large eyed, slender billed song bird part of the Thrush Family. Unmistakable as it is the only small, bright blue with a rusty red breast found in the East. Inhabits open country with scattered trees and fence posts. Nests in cavities, and will make use of nest boxes. Their song is very musical, liquid chur-lee or tur-ee, repeated in warbled phrases.

THE ROSE- Genus Rosa - usually prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers having five petals in the wild state but often double or partly double under cultivation. The flowers are usually fragrant and are red, pink, white, yellow, etc., with many stamens. The rose has been a favorite all over the world since prehistoric times. There are many hundreds of species and varieties, ranging from tiny rock garden forms to large shrub or climbing types. Among the old species are the damask rose and the cabbage or hundred-leaved rose. Hybridization, resulting in the rambler, tea, and hybrid tea, began Mien the East India Company's ships brought new everblooming roses from the Orient.

THE TULIP - Genus Tulipa - is a hardy, bulbous-rooted, spring flowering, Old World plant long popular for the cup-shaped blossoms of various rich colors. Tulips were probably introduced into Europe from Turkey c. 1555. In the 17th century the wild speculation in tulip bulbs in Holland was known as tulipomania.

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM - Genus Ornithogalum - Family O. umbellatum - is a low, spring- blooming bulbous plant of the Mediterranean region. It has grasslike leaves and clustered white starry flowers and multiplies rapidly.