New and Improved GCA Website
The new GCA website is LIVE! It is still a work-in-progress but you can now log in and register your own personal user name (your email address) and password of your choice.
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.
New Brochure for Irwin Park
The revised 2016 Irwin Park brochure is a work in progress. This is the latest update. Hope you will visit soon and often and bring family, friends and your cameras. Fall is a particularly beautiful time of the year.
Irwin Park Brochure 2016
New Canaan Garden Club Honors Milestone
2020 marks New Canaan Garden Club’s 100th Anniversary of being a member of the Garden Club of America. NCGC was founded by six forward-thinking New Canaan women in 1909. It was the third garden club to be organized in the United States.
New Canaan Garden Club Launches Audio Guide About Waveny Park’s History
The New Canaan Garden Club has launched an exciting new audio guide about the history of Waveny Park on Otocast. The project stems from the Garden Club of America’s initiative to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture. Waveny Park is an Olmsted firm designed property, and the Club felt it was important to enlighten our community on its historical background and significance in a unique and novel way.
New Canaan Garden Club Produces Reusable Bags
In support of the growing worldwide movement banning single-use plastic bags, the New Canaan Garden Club has produced reusable bags, which are available for purchase at Elm Street Books.
New Canaan in Bloom a big success!
The Town of New Canaan was awash with beautifully creative flower arrangements over the weekend of October 7th – 9th, 2016 to celebrate the fourth New Canaan In Bloom event! Twenty nine stores up and down Elm Street welcomed 52 members of the New Canaan Garden to beautify their store windows,showcase artistic floral design ideas, and to say ‘thank you’ to our wonderful community.
New Canaan Sculpture Trail
The New Canaan Sculpture Trail was created by the New Canaan Land Trust, in partnership with the Carriage Barn Arts Center, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. By joining art and nature, this inaugural outdoor art exhibition promises to uniquely connect residents and visitors to our natural surroundings. The exhibition features eight juried sculptural installations at six New Canaan Land Trust preserves, the front lawn of the New Canaan Town Hall, and the courtyard of the Carriage Barn Arts Center. The Sculpture Trail is open to the public from April 1 through July 31, 2020.
New Signage for Children’s Mushroom Maze at Irwin Park
Ashley O’Connor, a Woodworking and Engineering teacher at New Canaan High School, and sophomores in the tree Andrew DeFranco (l.) and Miles Turpin (r.) created attractive wooden signage directing children and their parents to the New Canaan Garden Club’s Children’s Mushroom Maze in Irwin Park.
New State Legislation on Bamboo
At our Zone II Horticulture Committee meeting we were asked to make all GCA members aware of this new legislation: