Suffield Garden Club, Inc.
Organized June 24, 1934
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Community Contributions
THE TRADITION CONTINUES
Since its first civic project in 1939, Suffield Garden Club has continued its dedication to community involvement and betterment via ongoing programs and special projects.
In addition to donating sweat equity, the club contributes generously to the community with proceeds from its annual May Market, periodic garden or house tours and other special events.
Organizations Benefiting from our Efforts 2011-12:
• Connecticut Landmarks »
• Friends of the Farm at Hilltop »
• Parkway Pavilion Healthcare »
• Rotary Club of Suffield »
• State of Connecticut DEEP »
• Suffield Historical Society »
• Suffield House »
• Suffield Public Schools
• Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association »
• Town of Suffield »
At these Locations:
• Amiel & Mary Anne Zak Ambulance Center »
• Hilltop Farm »
• Kent Memorial Library »
• King House »
• Phelps-Hatheway House »
• Rotary Club Pavilion at Suffield High School
• Suffield Senior Center »
• Town of Suffield, several locations
• Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail »
Project Partners:
• Boy Scout Troop 66
• Friends of the Canal
• Rotary Club of Suffield »
• Suffield Regional Agriscience Center »
• Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association »
• West Suffield Grange »
Members staff the club's booth at the 2011 Suffield On The Green, sponsored by Friends of Suffield.
Since its first civic project in 1939, Suffield Garden Club has continued its dedication to community involvement and betterment via ongoing programs and special projects.
In addition to donating sweat equity, the club contributes generously to the community with proceeds from its annual May Market, periodic garden or house tours and other special events.
Organizations Benefiting from our Efforts 2011-12:
• Connecticut Landmarks »
• Friends of the Farm at Hilltop »
• Parkway Pavilion Healthcare »
• Rotary Club of Suffield »
• State of Connecticut DEEP »
• Suffield Historical Society »
• Suffield House »
• Suffield Public Schools
• Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association »
• Town of Suffield »
At these Locations:
• Amiel & Mary Anne Zak Ambulance Center »
• Hilltop Farm »
• Kent Memorial Library »
• King House »
• Phelps-Hatheway House »
• Rotary Club Pavilion at Suffield High School
• Suffield Senior Center »
• Town of Suffield, several locations
• Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail »
Project Partners:
• Boy Scout Troop 66
• Friends of the Canal
• Rotary Club of Suffield »
• Suffield Regional Agriscience Center »
• Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association »
• West Suffield Grange »
Suffield Garden Club also participates in community events that offer outreach opportunities for the club.
Members staff the club's booth at the 2011 Suffield On The Green, sponsored by Friends of Suffield._________________________________________________
Rotary Club Pavilion Landscaping Project
Suffield Garden Club is coordinating the efforts of Rotary Club of Suffield, Suffield Regional Agriscience Center, and Town of Suffield to landscape the outside of the new Rotary Club pavilion at the high school for all to enjoy. The pavilion will provide bathroom facilities and a concession stand at the school's athletic fields.
Suffield Senior Center Vegetable Garden
The club will plant herbs, vegetables and flowers in the
Suffield Senior Center raised bedsafter a local landscaping company corrects drainage and installs the block beds. Boy Scout Troop 66 and other volunteers will assist us with this project. West Suffield Grange donated money for the bed materials. Suffield Garden Club will fund the balance of the project, which includes blueberry bushes and fencing.
In 2010 Suffield Garden Club members designed and planted the landscaping around the entry and perimeter of the new Senior Center. We also established a shade garden on the grounds. Seniors enrolled in the center's gardening program maintain the landscaping, and will grow vegetables for use in the center's kitchen, sharing any surplus.
In 2010 Suffield Garden Club members designed and planted the landscaping around the entry and perimeter of the new Senior Center. We also established a shade garden on the grounds. Seniors enrolled in the center's gardening program maintain the landscaping, and will grow vegetables for use in the center's kitchen, sharing any surplus.
Kent Memorial Library Atrium Renovation
Club members have already removed 60 invasive species of plants and installed new plantings transforming the atrium at Kent Memorial Library. New seating provided by the library now beckons your enjoyment of this quiet retreat. Work will be completed after the library renovation is finished.
Amiel & Mary Anne Zak Ambulance Center Landscaping Project
In conjunction with the Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association, the club will design and install a garden of native plants and shrubs at the ambulance center. The theme of this garden-- Nurture the Earth with Native Plants --was inspired by the National Garden Club. Through this project, the club will be able to spread the word about how to protect native species. The ambulance association will maintain the garden.
Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail Butterfly Garden
Working with Friends of the Canal, we will establish a small butterfly garden at the Suffield end of the Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail. The club and Friends will evaluate the garden for possible expansion over time.
Holiday House Tour
December 3, 2011
December 3, 2011
This holiday house tour featured the decorating talents of club members in six festive private homes plusthe Phelps-Hatheway House and King House Museum along Suffield's historic South Main Street. Proceeds will be returned to the community through our civic projects and donations to our very special museums.
April 2012, Date TBD
Annually since 1965, Suffield Garden Club has given a tree sapling to all fourth grade students in the Suffield school system. The variety of tree varies. More than 200 children receive trees during a school assembly that includes a presentation on planting and caring for the young trees.
News article from 2011
Photos from 2011
Annually since 1965, Suffield Garden Club has given a tree sapling to all fourth grade students in the Suffield school system. The variety of tree varies. More than 200 children receive trees during a school assembly that includes a presentation on planting and caring for the young trees. News article from 2011
Photos from 2011
Civic Beautification
Weekly from May-October, members maintain public gardens at the Civil War Soldiers' Monument and the gazebo on the town green, the historical marker in front of Kent Memorial Library, and the Bridge Street island.
Dogwoods
Suffield Garden Club has maintained the dogwood trees along historic Main Street since the 1940s. Members currently tend 130 dogwoods within the town center including fertilizing, mulching, watering and replacing, as needed.
Garden Therapy
Members work year round with elderly and handicapped residents at Parkway Pavilion Healthcare in Enfield, Conn., and monthly with residents of Suffield House in Suffield, Conn. Residents design floral arrangements for the nursing centers' cafeterias and individual patient rooms.
Gateway Signs
Members maintain the plantings at five of Suffield's gateway signs that mark the entries into town.
Library Flowers
Each week throughout the year, a Suffield Garden Club member is responsible for placing a floral display of their choice in Kent Memorial Library.
Phelps-Hatheway House Gardens
Located on the south lawn of the museum property in Suffield owned by Connecticut Landmarks, these gardens are one of the Suffield Garden Club's oldest devotions. Members plant, mulch, weed and maintain the historic floral gardens weekly April-October, as well as the Ethel Wilson Memorial Herb Garden on the northwest side of the house bi-weekly April-September. The herb garden boasts plantings appropriate to the home's period.
May MarketMay 12, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Suffield Garden Club's major annual fundraiser and community event offers flowers from members' gardens, local nurseries, and our high school Agriscience students; members' baked items; collectibles; a "teacup" auction; a variety of vendors, and more. Proceeds fund community projects during the coming year.
News video from 2011
Photos from 2011
Posies-to-Go The entries in this special mini-exhibit at our February meeting are donated to the Suffield Meals on Wheels program for Suffield residents who are housebound.
South Main Street Island
Suffield Garden Club redesigned and replanted this large traffic island on historic Main Street in 2003 and continues to maintain it.
![Take your Haz Waste to the collection day! [Artwork by Rick Stromoski.]](images/hazwasteday_am2n.jpg "Take your Haz Waste to the collection day! [Artwork by Rick Stromoski.]")
Suffield Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day
April 2012, Date TBD
8:00 a.m. - noon
Since 1985 this annual spring event, typically held in April,
allows Suffield residents to bring their
household hazardous waste to a collection
point in town for responsible disposal.
Co-sponsored with Town of Suffield Public
Works Commission.
allows Suffield residents to bring their
household hazardous waste to a collection
point in town for responsible disposal.
Co-sponsored with Town of Suffield Public
Works Commission.
