Sundial Garden Club
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Welcome to our club! We embrace challenges while nurturing our garden at the Hillsdale Library, where we hold meetings. Each month, a local gardening expert presents topics ranging from hummingbirds deer-resistant planting. Our programs are open to the public, and we advertise in the Pascack Press newspaper. Join us to learn and grow together!
Monday, November 3, 2025 @ 4:00 PM
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Speaker: Mary Jo Sichak
Topic: “Moths Matter” - Mary Jo Sichak, master gardener, naturalist, and photographer, will share with us the beauty of moths through her captivating photography.
This program highlights the beauty, variety, and importance of moths in the ecosystem
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Old Business
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Holiday Gathering
Scheduled at Domani’s in HIllsdale for Monday, December 1 at 5:30 pm.
** Please have check for $35.00 – made out to “Sundial Garden Club”
** RSVP to Evelyn (201-666-7675) by 11/15. $35 includes 4 course meal.
** Thank you to Abe for setting this up!
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HIllsdale House - Holiday Craft with residents
Scheduled for: Thursday, December 4 @ 6 pm . All members are welcome to join us!
RSVP to : Evelyn (201-666-7675) so we know how many members will be joining us.
New Business
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HIllsdale Library Garden clean up – will set date for November
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Veterans’ Home Garden clean up – will set date for November
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Donations to Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge will be collected by Leslie Kane, the day of our dinner (Dec. 1) in the restaurant parking lot at Domani in HIllsdale , Monday, December 1, starting at 5:15 pm. Please check the website for recommended donation items
** Donation Checks can be made out to: “RBARI” / https://rbari.org/
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You may send checks directly, just make sure you add from sundial GC member.
This way they know it is from our club. We have done this in lieu of gift exchanges.
About
Sundial Garden Club History
We have enjoyed more than 90 years of rich history since the first meeting of the Sundial Garden Club was held on April 5, 1929. The club was founded by Mrs. Paul Clerke, who served as our first president and Mr. Thomas A. Weston, a distinguished horticulturalist, who served as vice-president for many years. The club was organized with the intentions of stimulating interest in cooperative gardening, beautification of home towns, the advancement of gardening, protection of birds, and the conservation of trees, wildflowers, and forests to help “make Bergen the Garden County of the Garden State.”
Currently, the club’s members are involved in projects that uphold the intentions of the founding members, including awarding annual scholarships, participation in the Meals on Wheels program, planting and maintaining gardens at the NJ Veterans’ Home in Paramus, as well as the Hillsdale Public Library.
As we begin our new year, we honor our past members and their unique contributions. Sundial is the oldest garden club in the Pascack Valley in continuous existence.
Our Vision
To make Bergen County the Garden County.
Please join us as we work to make Bergen County the Garden County.
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Latest Sundial News
Recent Press Release:
A Weston memorial plaque and tree in Hillsdale
The Plaque is Back!
The plaque and a tree memorializing Hillsdale’s most renowned gardener, Thomas A. Weston, horticulturalist and writer, are, once again, on display in the center of town. Mr. Weston, who was one of the founders of Hillsdale’s Sundial Garden Club, was also president of the New York Florists Club and the New Jersey Men’s Garden Club. He also wrote a weekly article, “One Man’s Garden”, for the New York Herald Tribune, authored two books on gardening, contributed to others and wrote many articles for various periodicals.
Mr. Weston died in 1946 and was memorialized with the plaque and a tree by the Sundial Garden Club that year. The original tree, a dogwood, had been replaced over the years by a weeping cherry that many will remember blossomed across from Marsala’s hardware on Broadway. In the last few years the cherry tree died and the plaque went missing. The Sundial Garden Club, still thriving and based in Hillsdale, resolved to replant a tree, this time a dogwood like the original, in his honor. Fortunately, the plaque was relocated, then remounted on granite and replaced at the foot Mr. Weston’s tree.
The Sundial Garden Club welcomes new members. For further information please contact Joyce Scherrer 201-664-0396.