The Southbury Garden Club, founded in 1959, is an educational, charitable, nonprofit organization.
The Club is affiliated with
The National Garden Clubs, Inc.,
The New England Garden Clubs, Inc., and
The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc.
The goals of the club are to promote interest in horticulture, further the conservation of natural resources, increase knowledge in the artistic use of plant material, and
develop and assist in civic programs.
In
2019 the club celebrated the club's 60th anniversary; six decades of involvement in the
Tribury area. The club celebrated this milestone with a new Pollinator
Garden at Settlers Park, designed to provide habitat for endangered birds,
bees and butterflies which play such a vital role in the human food chain..
Although restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 led to the cancelation
of free monthly programs at the library, the club looks forward to an
exciting year of programs beginning again on March 5, 2021
Ongoing civic
projects include: donating a red oak tree to the Town of Southbury; planting
a garden at Grace Meadows Assisted Living facility; holding workshops for
both seniors and youth residents;
designing and planting authentic gardens at the Bullet Hill School, which
garnered a State-level Award from the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut; maintaining plots at the Southbury Community Garden,
and the Heritage Village Community Garden whose
crops are then donated weekly to the Southbury Food Bank.
The club also provides decorated holiday wreaths
for the Southbury
town buildings;
fills and presents garden
therapy baskets to clients of Safe Haven; donates holiday presents to the
ladies and men in the Safe Haven program; presents annual awards to local businesses for outstanding landscaping,
and designs and maintains public gardens at Ballantine Park and
Ewald Park.
The club also awards the five hundred dollar annual Harriet Koons Memorial
Scholarship to a local resident who is enrolled in an accredited college
or university program, and is majoring in horticulture or a related field
which reflects the goals of the club.
Meetings are held on the first Friday of each month from March through December, with an annual luncheon meeting in December.
The programs at the Southbury Public Library are free and open to interested
area residents.
Club members and invited guests also take outings to special sites, attend
flower shows and
attend floral design workshops throughout the year.
For information on the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut click here:
http://www.ctgardenclubs.org.
Visit the National Garden Club web site at
http://www.gardenclub.org .