Garden Clubs beautify, educate and socialize
By Janelle Faignant
If you’ve ever noticed the colorful tulips planted at your local library, you’ve seen a small glimpse of what our local garden clubs do for their communities. From making our towns
more beautiful to fun day trips and speaker events, most of Vermont’s garden clubs are active year round with a common mission to promote civic beautification, educate and socialize.
“I think it attracts visitors to the town we’re in,” said Pat Cherry, of the Manchester Garden Club. “It just makes it look so good in the summers to have fresh flowers.”
Local garden clubs across the state celebrated National Garden Week June 2-8 this year, and you can’t talk about them without mentioning The Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont — a statewide organization with over a dozen member clubs and more than 750 community members. Its mission is to “aid in the protection and conservation of our natural resources ... to encourage and assist the garden clubs of the State of Vermont and to encourage educational programs in the fields of horticulture, ecology, forestry, landscape design, environmental studies, and floral design.”
South District Meeting at the Arlington Community House. Left to Right Jo- anna Taylor (Arlington Garden Club member), Jean Freebern (South District Director), Flora Bell (Blue Star Marker state chair); 2nd row: Anna Rockwell (Arlington Garden Club member), Jo Fretz (Award state chair)
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