Garden Calendar
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- November
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Dec. 5
Congers: Rockland Audubon Monthly Program. Speaker: Manna Jo Greene. Topic: Diminishing fish populations, development along the river and its impact on wildlife and ecology. Free. 8 p.m. Rockland Country Day School, 34 Kings Highway. 845-639-9216.
Dec. 6
New City: Hands-on topiary design workshop, led by a Cornell Cooperative agent. Registration by Dec. 3. $28 materials fee. 1:30 p.m. 845-634-4997, ext. 139.
Dec. 9
Stony Point: Holiday Wreath and Topiary Workshop. Bring a pair of pruning snips or shears and gloves. Registration. $25. 7 p.m. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland County, 10 Patriot Hills Drive. 845-429-7085.
Dec. 9
White Plains: Greater Westchester Orchid Society Meeting. $25 membership. 7 p.m. Ethical Culture Society of Westchester, 7 Saxon Woods Road. 973-420-4966.
Dec. 10
New Rochelle: Garden Club of New Rochelle Social and Auction. Free. 2 p.m. Elks Lodge, 19 The Boulevard. 914-632-5411.



Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.






