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Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont

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Connecticut

Meeting Location: Willoughby Wallace Library

  • 146 Thimble Islands Road
  • Branford CT 06405

Meeting Times: Second Tuesday of each month, September to June, 7:30 pm

Contact :

Our club was formed in 1961 and encourages anyone with a love of African violets to come to a meeting to learn more about this special plant.

Information updated 9/21/2021

Meeting Location: Members’ homes, Windsor Public Library, or Grace Episcopal Church in Windsor
Meeting Times: Second Wednesday each month, Sept – June, 7:00 p.m. No meetings in July and August.

If you would like to come to a meeting, please contact us for specific meeting location.

Club meetings are currently held on Zoom.

Club Web Address:  http://www.windsorafricanviolets.org/

Club Email Address:  https://instafax.com/wavs/contact2.html

Contact 1
Joyce Dickey
Phone: 860-937-9785
Email: joycedickey@yahoo.com

Contact 2
Doreen Lay
Phone: 860-285-8953
Email: lay@hartford.edu

We also have an educational booth in the Federated Garden Clubs of CT section of the CT Flower Show in February.

Information updated 08/16/2021

Massachusetts

  • Carmel Terrace Assisted Living
    933 Central Street
    Framingham, MA

Meeting Times: Third Wednesday each month, all year, 7:15 p.m.

Information updated 9/11/2021

Bay State African Violet Society, Inc.
Massachusetts

Meeting Location:

  • St. Michael Parish Center
    90 Concord Rd.
    Bedford, MA

Meeting Times:

  • Annual business and dinner meeting, third Sunday in October,
  • 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Includes plant sales, guest speaker and raffle.

Club Website: https://baystateafricanvioletsociet

Contact # 1

Nancy Manozzi, President

Contact # 2

Cynthia Brooks, Membership Chair

Notes:

The annual dinner/business meeting includes plant sales, guest speaker and raffle.

The society produces a quarterly newsletter for the membership.

The annual show is held in late April at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA

Monthly remote lectures on a variety of topics related to African Violets

Information updated 02/02/2021

Meeting location:

  • Whitney Place
  • 238 West Main Street
  • Northborough, MA 01532

Meeting times: 2nd Tuesday each month at 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. arrival

Contact: Anne Marie Flynn, President

Notes: We are a friendly group of just under 20 men and women always looking to welcome others interested in growing our favorite houseplant. We encourage anyone to come to a meeting, no membership required. Please contact the president first so we know to expect you.

We gather between 6:30pm and 7pm in the communal kitchen/activity room, then have a short business meeting at 7, followed by a program of interest to any AV grower at any skill level. Our annual dues are $6.00.

Our members live primarily in Central Massachusetts, but also MetroWest Boston. Gateway AVC formed in May,  2006. Several of us are judges for the African Violet Society of America, the international registry of Saintpaulia, and we are also members of the regional Bay State African Violet Society.

Information updated 7/19/2017

Meeting location:  Members homes.
Meeting time:  First Monday of the month at 1:00 p.m.

  • Contact #1:  Eleanor MacIver
    Phone: 508-517-2594
    Email:  esmac197@comcast.net
  • Contact #2:  Susie Giovanditti
    Phone:  781-899-7203

Information updated 7/19/2017

New Hampshire

Meeting Location:

  • Granite State Marketing Research
    13 Orchard View Drive
    Londonderry, NH  03053

Meeting times: Meeting Dates & Times Vary

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GSAVGS/ 

Information updated 4/2/2020

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