GREENWICH GARDEN CLUB CONTRIBUTIONS

Throughout its history, the Greenwich Garden Club has made many contributions of time, effort, and money. These lists are as complete as existing records permit.

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(Prior to 2000 see Archives at end of this section)

2001     YWCA landscape project donation.

2005     Boys and Girls Club landscape project donation.

2006     Sylvia Earle lecture on oceans and conservation. A joint effort Zones II and III.

2006     Worked with Boys and Girls Club on a Teaching Garden.

2015     Gift to Central Park Conservancy in honor of Anne Harrison.

2015–2018 - Tri-Club planting on Monument Hill. A total of 60,000 crocus bulbs.

2018     Donated to the Anne Norton Sculpture Gardens Conservancy in honor of Francis Fisher, and to the Palm Beach Garden Club in honor of Visiting Gardens Chair after GGC garden tour excursion to Palm Beach.

2018     Donated funds to support Wild Bees Exhibition at the Bruce Museum.

2018 – 2020 Tri-Club collaboration to redesign West Post Road entry to Greenwich, (never materialized.)

2019     Tri-Club planting of bulbs behind Greenwich Town Hall.

2019     Donation to Acadia National Park to support the “Wild Gardens of Acadia” in honor of Anne Green.

2019     Donation to Yellowstone National Park in honor of Jane Nickerson.

2020     Crocus Planting at Chestnut Island, Post Road. As a result of the Food and Toy drive in December, donated 125 Children’s Books to Family Centers and over 100 toy gifts contributed to the Boys and Girls Club.

2020 – 2021 Donated books and tabletop Christmas tree for children served by Family Centers and Greenwich Boys & Girls Club.

2022     Donation of $4,650 to the Fresh Air Fund in Southampton, NY in Kirsten Galef’s honor.

FOR THE LOVE OF TREES!

1914     The Garden Club’s Conservation Committee worked to protect the Elm trees in Greenwich and plant Horse Chestnuts on North Street.

1924 – 1938 Letters to congressmen throughout the years on tree preservation.

1935     Campaign on Dutch Elm disease.

1936     Preservation of trees threatened by widening North Street; supported the GCA and their efforts to help California protect the Redwoods.

1941     Contributed to the GCA Redwood Grove.

1968     Joined the GCA “Save the Redwoods League.”

1980     “Save the Redwoods League,” GCA Group. Life Member.

1967     Tree planted on East Putnam Avenue.

2000     Treetops – helped fundraising efforts to preserve Treetops. Lolly Prince was First Selectman and very involved.

2011     GGC members founded the Greenwich Tree Conservancy’s annual Tree Party.

2015     In partnership with Green Fingers and Hortulus, participated in Federated Garden Clubs Oak tree planting campaign and planted 6 native oak trees in Byram Park.

CONTRIBUTIONS ARCHIVES

Conservation

1938-1940 - Greenwich Garden Center, Round Hill Road. A garden information center run for two years.

1941 – Supported resolution opposed to importing wild bird plumage.

1942 – Friends of the Land, and annually for many years.

1947 – A Society for the preservation of soil, rain and man. Washington, D.C.

1949 – New England Wild Flower Preservation Society.

1951 – Wild Flower Conservation boxes made for schools.

1953 – 300 Conservation Educational Packets distributed to schools.

1957 and 1960 – Beckley Bog.

1960 – Mrs. Crowinshield Memorial Room at G.C.A.

1963 – 50th Anniversary Fund of G.C.A. for National Arboretum.

Sesquicentennial Planting G.C.A. Project of rare plants at the National Arboretum.

Film, “The Living Earth,” to the High School (with other Clubs).

1965 – Byram River Gorge.

1965 – “Garden in the Woods”.

1966 – “Conservation Comments” radio series with other clubs.

1971 – Byram River Pollution Abatement.

1971 – Bartlett Arboretum, (Stamford), Nature Conservancy contributions, Air Conservation Trust

1979 – Mianus River Gorge, Warden’s House.

1979 – Photographic slides of all building’s worth preserving in Central Greenwich. Slides exhibited in Greenwich Library.

1980 – Greenwich Parks, Mrs. Kitchel Memorial.

Civic

1922 – North side Railroad Station planted with dogwoods and shrubs.

Ragweed campaign in middle thirties.

1932 – Anti-Billboard campaign, and continuing, at least until 1959; letters written to Congressmen and industrialists; Mianus School planted; planted many triangles at street intersections; Round Hill and Merritt Parkway exit planting and plaque (with other clubs.)

1939 – Planting of 5,000 tulips at the Post Office, Greenwich Avenue location.

1946 – Assisted Hortulus on Railroad Station southwest bank.

1949–1955 – With Green Fingers, planted trees on Greenwich Avenue.

1954 – “Garden of Fragrance for the Blind” at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

1955 – Provided plantings for Elm Street parking lot.

1957 – Provided plantings for Benedict Place parking lot.

1957 – Stamford Rehabilitation Center planting.

1959 – Community Chest landscaping.

1960 – Provided plantings for Railroad Station parking lot.

1966 – Rural Zoning Fund.

1970’s – Mariette Badger spearheaded Greenwich’s first recycling program.

1970 – Grape Arbor.

1972 – With Hortulus and Green Fingers donated Christmas Lights to town.

1973 – With Hortulus and Green Fingers planted Tree in Bruce Park.

1973 – Town wide mailing of stickers for recycling project.

1977 – Greenwich Association for Retarded Citizens, Potting Shed.

1978 – Old State House, Hartford, towards restoration of grounds.

1984 – Greenwich Youth Center, landscaping.

1990, 1991, 1996 – Adams Gardens, Riverside, flowering trees and shrubs, daffodils and maintenance.

1991 – GARC Greenhouse with Green Fingers and Hortulus.

1992 – Bruce Museum – Trees for entrance.

1992, 1994, 1996 – Wilbur Peck, flowering trees, shrubs, crocuses and maintenance.

1993 – Governor’s Mansion Wild Garden.1994 – Greenwich Commons - Proceeds of Four Score Festival ($45,000) went towards planting 10 Oak trees and 75 Enkianthus trees at Greenwich Common.

1994 – Wilbur Peck crocus planting.

1994 – Junior League of Greenwich, for Bruce Park Playground.

1998 – Adopt–a–Road.

1998 (and for several years) – Greenwich Recycling Tour. 

Education

1931–1935 – Scholarship to Lowthrope School of Landscape Architecture.

1933–1938 – Scholarship to Ambler School of Horticulture.

1934 – Connecticut Arboretum.

Annual participation in Arbor Day.

1939 – One of nine clubs to enter “Gardens on Parade” at World’s Fair.

1941 – Supported Liberty Hyde Bailey Palm Garden, Coconut Grove, Florida.

1947 – Friendship Train, patriotic travelling exhibit.

1947 – Research papers written on lives of botanists for proposed biography.

1949 – MacRae Medal to be given by the Greenwich Historical Society (with all local garden clubs.)

1948 – Weekly broadcasts on garden subjects – WGCH series “Garden Hints for You and Your Town”.

1951 – Yale University Fellowship in Plant Science.

1954 – Helped the establishment of Garden of Fragrance for the Blind at the Brookline Botanical Garden.

New York University – Stamford Museum Conservation Workshop.

1954 – National Council Permanent Home Fund.

1955 – Building Fund for Research Laboratory

1955 – Subsidized nine teachers.

1961–1964 – Olympic Natural History Association.

1962 – Wilderness Society.

1966 – Conservation Comments, with Hortulus and Green Fingers – WGCH.

1979 – Hospice In–Patient Facility.

1981 – Conservation Scholarship.

1981 – New York Zoological Society, St. Catherine’s Island Project.

1981 – Endangered Species Postcard.

1982 – Garden Therapy. Along with other GCA clubs gave money for the Greenhouse. Was GRCA, now Abilis.

1993, 1996 – Solid Waste Education Tours.

1998 – Boy Scouts Project sponsorship.