The Spring Glen Garden Club will be holding its April meeting on Monday, April 11, 2022, at Lockwood Cottage 890 Evergreen Ave.  The meeting will begin at 11:45 am.  Bring a sandwich, beverage and dessert will be served.  After a short business meeting, the program will begin at 1 pm. Club member Dorothy Johnson will give a presentation of the Club’s history including slides and memorabilia.  Please join club members for a trip down memory lane and a glimpse of into the colorful history of The Spring Glen Garden Club.

     Donation: $5. For further information please contact Dorothy at 475.434.8017.

     The Club will also by participating in this years’ Hamden’s Earth Day Celebration at the Middle School on Saturday April 23, 2022.  We will be giving away bookmarks, milkweed seeds and sunflower seed starting kits. Please stop by our exhibits.

  The Club has been a fixture in the Hamden community since 1925, a chartered member of The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc., and National Garden Clubs, Inc., since 1929. 

     The Garden Club ongoing projects includes gardens and planters in Spring Glen, Poppy’s Garden on the Farmington Canal Trail and the Historical Herb Garden at The Jonathan Dickerman House.  

     The Club donated 10 American Elm hybrid trees to the Hamden Center Park as a result of its successful Wreaths for Trees program.  

     Other projects of the Club are a Rhododendron Garden at the entry to Lockwood Cottage and the Red Oak tree (Quercus rubra) affectionately known as “Annie Oakley” planted in the Eli Whitney Park. 

     The Spring Glen Garden Club is looking for new members, who are not only interested in horticultural pursuits but civic beautification and preservation of our natural resources. There are no residency requirements to belong, our members are as local as Hamden, North Haven, Branford, or as far flung as Goshen.   For further membership information, please call Grace at 203-288-1422.