The Woman's Community Club of Uwchlan

Our club meets in an historic Quaker Meeting House and everyone is active in conservation and heirloom specimens. All of the club's fund raising efforts goes to the maintenance and upkeep of the meetinghouse.
Uwchlan Meeting House, 5 North Village Avenue, Lionville, PA

The Garden Class of the Uwchlan Women’s Club is holding its annual Christmas Fair on Saturday, December 6th from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Stop by for all your fresh evergreens and holly, table arrangements, hand-made wreaths, kissing balls and holiday craft items. Don’t forget to come hungry. The kitchen is open at 11:00 a.m. for soup, sandwiches and dessert. The Christmas Fair will be held at the Uwchlan Meeting House at Routes 100 and 113 in Lionville, PA.

On Thursday, January 22nd, the Garden Class of the Uwchlan Women’s Club will hold its monthly meeting at the Uwchlan Meeting House at Routes 100 and 113 in Lionville, PA. Guests are welcomed to bring their lunch at noon and to stay for the talk by local Philadelphia author Sharon White. Sharon’s new book, Vanished Gardens takes a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores the city as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home.In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it.White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening is always waiting to be discovered anew.