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The RCGC Winter-Spring Catalog is now available -

To download a pdf of the catalog, click here. To browse or register for classes online, click on the catalog listings on the left sidebar.

The Winter-Spring catalog will be in mailboxes soon!

Take advantage of our early-bird special:

Buy a ticket to the 2012 RCGC Spring Symposium by February 1 and save $5 on the ticket price.

This year's symposium, Saturday, March 3, will feature 'Perennial Diva’ Stephanie Cohen presenting two lectures, 'Shrubganza' and 'Natives: Sustainable, Colorful and Wonderful', both drawn from her latest book, The Nonstop Garden: A Step-By-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs.

Our second presenter will be Rochester-based photojournalist Sandra Weber. Her slide-lecture, Seeing Gardens, will inspire you to expand your vision of the garden - you’ll come away more aware of how to capture the beauty of plants, gardens, and flowers by noticing colors, pattern, shapes, angles, and most importantly, the role of light in producing beautiful garden photographs.

More information here.

Our thanks to Clover Nursery & Garden Center for partnering with us to put on this event. And many thanks to our major sponsors: Jerry and Karen Kral, the Rochester Garden Club, the Allyn’s Creek Garden Club, Experienced Bricks, the Rochester Public Market. and Sara's Garden Center. And to our Continental breakfast sponsor, The Artful Gardener!

5th Annual Seed & Houseplant Swap
Saturday, January 28, 9:30 am-12:45 pm

Join us for the perfect garden fix on a wintery January day: two fun talks, refreshments, and tables full of free seeds and houseplant cuttings to take home! Deirdre Hickey from Bristol's Garden Center will show us an assortment of remarkable tropicals, highlighting ones that are easy and choice as well as some that are challenging but well worth the effort. Then Mary Cropely, a native Brit, will present a slide-lecture with beautiful images from her cottage-style garden, with information on how she creates this exuberant look from seed – direct seeding into the garden as well as starting plants early indoors.

You are encouraged to bring seeds and houseplant cuttings to share, but they are not required, and there will be plenty for everyone to take some home. More information here...

Save the Date – Library Book Sale
Saturday, February 18

10 am-2 pm

Come for our ‘1st annual’ book sale! There will be books from nearly all garden-related categories: how-to’s, flower arranging, landscaping, houseplants, vegetable growing – etc. Some books are from the early 20th century and may be of interest to garden history buffs. Others are recent books – donations duplicating books already in the collection. Prices range from 50 cents to $4, and we will also have lots and lots of free magazines and catalogs.

Join us for coffee and cookies and enjoy browsing for your winter reading.

Donations: your donations would be greatly appreciated. Other gardeners will enjoy those books gathering dust on your shelves, and proceeds from the sale benefit our library.

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Our mission is to improve the quality of life in the Genesee Region by fostering knowledge, providing information, increasing interest, and promoting all aspects of gardening and horticulture. People of the region have access to our library, public lectures, classes and other horticultural resources.