NCGC News
New Benches For Waveny Walled Garden
The Waveny Walled Garden received a big upgrade last month with the installation of three new benches. The benches are custom made replicas of those that were part of the restoration of the garden by the New Canaan Garden Club thirty years ago. Most of the wood used to make the new benches was donated by the Waveny Park Conservancy from the old oak tree that stood near Anderson Pond just below the Walled Garden. The Town of New Canaan shared in the cost to design and build these benches with a donation from the Waveny Walled Garden Wedding Fund. Former New Canaan residents Nancy and Bills Sessions (who sadly have since passed away) also contributed.
NCGC Reimagined Market
The New Canaan Garden Club (NCGC) is thrilled to announce its inaugural event, “Reimagined Market,” a unique Plant Sale and Market extravaganza to be held at the Carriage Barn Arts Center front terrace on Saturday, May 4th, from 9am to 2pm. This one-of-a-kind event promises to delight plant enthusiasts and gardeners. The sale will feature a diverse array of live plants, cut flower arrangements, succulent creations, herb boxes, organic heirloom tomatoes, photocards, pot de fleur, as well as a selection of gently used garden and botanical items, books, and more.
Italian Lakes Trip – May 2023
NCGC’s favorite international tour guide Marie featured last year’s spring trips to the Italian Lakes in her New Year’s newsletter. Click here to view write-up and see the wonderful photos.
Stop the Spotted Lanternfly!
Now is the time to take action to protect against the Spotted Lanternfly! It is the year of the dragon. With this in mind, let’s tap into our inner gardening dragons and protect our green spaces from the spotted lanternfly scourge. If you see these pods on your trees, now is the time to remove them to mitigate damage in the spring. This pest does not have a predator and can be highly destructive to gardens! Please keep a eye out for these invasive insects in your own garden and while walking in Waveny and Irwin Park.
Flowers on Wheels
Kris Johnson and Stephanie Radman had been delivering meals to the Meals on Wheels of New Canaan clients for the past few years. A few years ago, they took it...
Holiday Arrangements for Meals on Wheels and New Canaan Inn
The Holiday Arrangements for Meals on Wheels and the New Canaan Inn developed three years ago as a natural extension of the annual Christmas Wreath Making workshop. Using the small...
Holiday Greens Workshop
Since 1960, the Garden Club has convened each December to make large holiday wreaths for our downtown area and buildings. In 1976, we joined forces with the New Canaan Beautification...
Holiday Stroll
Each year Garden Club members decorate trees and wreaths for the annual Holiday Stroll held in downtown New Canaan prior to the holiday season. The trees surround the stage for...
Horticulture Therapy at Waveny Care Center
The Horticultural Therapy Program at Waveny Care Center was established when Waveny opened in 1975. Professionally trained volunteers, including several New Canaan Garden Club members, met weekly with residents to...
Irwin Park
Opened in 2005, Irwin Park is best described as a people sanctuary, with benches and chairs scattered among its vast lawns, fields and orchards. An environmentally friendly Flexi-pave trail, funded...
Peony Walk in Waveny Park
Funds were raised in the spring of 2013 to help restore the Peony Walk in Waveny Park. The first phase consisted of simply clearing masses of weeds and extraneous plant material...
Waveny Care Flowers
NCGC’s involvement at Waveny Care Center is longstanding, starting when the center opened over 40 years ago. Championed and nurtured by pioneer flower volunteer and NCGC member Allison Caesar, the...
Waveny Walled Garden and Parterre Garden
The Waveny Walled Garden was originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted's firm as a formal rose garden. In 1995 a committee of Garden Club horticulture devotees redesigned the garden as...
New Canaan Museum & Historical Society
The NCGC has maintained the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society garden for 30 years. It is made up of the Shirley Bird perennial garden and an 18th century Colonial...
The New Canaan Garden Club celebrates the iconic habitats of southwestern Connecticut: woodlands, meadows, ponds, streams and wetlands. These ecological zones support biodiversity and all life within them is interconnected. Plants are often the first thing we notice when looking at these habitats. Yet, in any given landscape, plants are only half the story. The plant world cannot exist without its animal & fungal partners. They have developed co-dependent relationships through centuries of evolution.
Plants and insect pollinators (bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles) have developed complex inter-relationships over thousands of years.