The objectives of the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club in Woodbury, Connecticut, are to promote an interest in gardens, horticulture, floral and landscape design; to cooperate in the protection of wild flowers, trees and birds; and to encourage public plantings, beautification and conservation.
We are a working club! Our members are responsible for many local beautification projects, including the installation and maintenance of plantings at many of the town’s parks and greens. Take a drive through town and chances are you will see the handiwork of dedicated garden club members! You may even see club members at work, sporting purple t-shirts, as they dig, plant, mulch, and more. Club members also maintain two award-winning sites at Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust: the Botany Wildflower Trail—established by club members in 1965 and continuously maintained ever since—and the Monarch Waystation, a habitat restoration project installed by the club in 2011 and expanded in 2015, part of a an international effort to save the endangered monarch butterfly. The club also sponsors monthly informational meetings and field trips, on topics from floral design to conservation and environmental issues.
Membership is open to those interested in participating in the implementation of these projects and objectives.
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Get ready for spring with a fun afternoon of gardening trivia!
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Woodbury Fire Department Headquarters,
25 Quassuk Rd, Woodbury
"Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Bats"
with Allison Middlemass, Senior Coordinator of Community Conservation Programs,
Bent of the River Audubon Center
GUESTS WELCOME!
$5 donation for non-members
Above: Monarch Butterfly on Coreopsis tinctoria (Golden tickseed) and Caryopteris sp. (Bluebeard). Photo: Mike Fernandez/Audubon
The Pomperaug Valley Garden Club is delighted to present “Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Bats”with Allison Middlemass from the Bent of the River Audubon Center in Southbury, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. The program will begin at 11 am at the Woodbury Firehouse, 25 Quassuk Road in Woodbury. Members of the public are welcome to attend for a $5 donation.
Allison is a naturalist, environmental educator, and artist. She grew up in a nature-loving family that cultivated her passion for wildlife conservation from a young age. She started her career working for Audubon Connecticut's coastal team on youth leadership programs and is now the Senior Coordinator of Community Conservation Programs at the Bent of the River Audubon Center. Her role includes being an educator for the center, summer camp director, and coordinating community programs.
“Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Bats” is all about pollinators and the key roles they play in our ecosystem. We will discuss how each animal's life cycle works and what it relies on to survive. You will learn about the threats that are leading to population decline among our pollinators and how this affects us negatively as humans sharing the same environment.
Don't lose hope, since we will go over the ways we can help make a positive impact for these important critters!
Get ready for spring with a fun afternoon of gardening trivia!
Invite your friends and get a table together for this "fun"draiser!
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!!!!
For more information, please Email Us at
tickets@pomperaugvalleygc.org
To purchase tickets at $15 per person, use the QR code below:
SAVE the Monarchs!
"Tracking Individual Monarchs with Radio Tags as Part of the Project Monarch Collaboration"
 Bl?Morpho solar-powered radio transmitters (also referred to as “tags”) provide an amazing opportunity to track the paths of individual monarch butterflies. In particular, the ultralight tags can use Bluetooth crowd-sourced location networks to increase the number of detections. Visit the CTT/CMPASC Project Monarch website to learn more about how the project started and how Bl?Morpho tags work.
Monarch Watch deployed a total of 30 Bl?Morpho tags towards the end of September. Of the 30 monarchs that we tagged, 30% (9) have been detected in Mexico, 63% (19) in Texas, and 70% (21) in Oklahoma. Previous estimates (see Monarch Population Dynamics: Issues of scale) have suggested that 20% (or 1 out of 5) or fewer of monarchs that start the migration across the breeding range make it to the overwintering sanctuaries in central Mexico. Using the free Project Monarch Science app (download via your device’s app store), you can view lots of information about many of the tagged individuals. You can find the monarchs tagged by Monarch Watch in the Data tab by selecting the monarch icon at the top of the screen then searching for “MW”. When you look at the map view, make sure to zoom in as far as you can so that you are not missing any monarchs.
Please see the Monarch Watch Blog for the complete, fascinating blog about this exciting new technology for tracking monarchs! Be sure to check out the amazing tracking maps!
2026 Monarch Status: An Update from Mexico
January 5, 2026 by Team Journey North
"Mexico's monarch colonies appear in good shape going into the new year. Our fantastic monarchs close 2025 at ideal cool conditions, displaying themselves in magnificently still clusters, which points to the 2025-26 season being a very good year in population.
Winter time in the mountains of Central México seems to be meeting the forecasted warnings of a very cold winter -- the genuine winter and perfect balance in this local ecosystem our fantastic monarch butterflies recognize and manage to thrive in -- during their overwintering stage at temperatures down to 0°C (32°F) and lower, with chilly, bright sunny intervals and threatening rain with probabilities of snow any time now." Read more here …
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Do you know your caterpillars?
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| Above, Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillar |
Above, Monarch caterpillar |
Join the fight to save these magnificent and iconic butterflies!
Consider becoming a "Citizen Scientist" -- you can help scientists understand and track the migration patterns of monarchs by reporting your own sightings here.
You can help save this magnificent species and their amazing migration -- plant native milkweed and nectar flowers for them!
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You can purchase 8 stunning notecards for a $10 donation. Click here for more information.
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