Manchester Garden Club News

MANCHESTER GARDEN CLUB TO GIVE AWAY 200 NATIVE TREES
In celebration of Manchester's Bicentennial, the Manchester Garden Club plans to give away 200 native tree seedlings to Manchester residents. Garden Club members will have a table at Reimagine Main Street (Second Saturday) at Center Memorial Park on May 13, 2023 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm.  Rain location is at Leisure Labs at Mahoney Recreation Center. Event Poster

Trees are considered an investment in the future and planting more trees is something that can help to slow the connected crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Trees can reduce the negative effects of climate change by cooling and cleaning our air, absorbing and filtering polluted stormwater, increasing biodiversity, and beautifying our neighborhoods.

The trees will be 2-3 year old seedlings. The purchase of the 200 seedlings was made possible by a grant from the Manchester Youth Commission. At the giveaway event, there will be a map of Manchester and each resident who takes a tree will mark the location where the tree will be planted. Residents will be given fact sheets and written planting instructions. The hope is that some of the trees will still be here for the next centiennial.
 

BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS 2022
Members of the Beautification Committee traveled the town looking for business and civic buildings where gardens were created and maintained to enhance Manchester's "Village Charm". We awarded five recognition awards this year. On each citation we identified what we felt were the striking features of the garden. Our winners are:

Bayt Ul-Mamur Mosque (Creating a vibrant urban garden)
The Green Scene (Continued development of pollinator plantings)
John Hambrook, DDS (Enchanting urban flower garden)
The Main Pub (Maintaining a patio that is an urban floral oasis)
Woodland Gardens (Creating an eye catching street border)


CONNECTING TO THE POLLINATOR PATHWAY
Members of the Manchester Garden Club are working with the town and other civic organizations to connect Manchester to the Pollinator Pathway. This is a national movement that is dedicated to helping to restore bees and other beneficial insect populations.

The Manchester Garden Club would like to inform our members and neighbors of the need to act in our own yards to protect the future of this planet. We can stop using pesticides and chemicals in our yards.  We can add native plants to our gardens and include them in our garden design. Native plants are suited to the environment, they give your garden diversity, and they are generally low maintenance if planted with the correct light and moisture requirements. Native plants don't make your garden look messy.

The Manchester Garden Club plans to include native plants in the four civic gardens we maintain in town. The club has planted and maintains a Pollinator garden in Center Park at the Bigelow Street entrance.

The Club will be selling pollinator-friendly native plants at this year's plant sale at the Community Baptist Church, 585 East Center Street. The sale starts at 8:30 am, rain or shine. Information about how your garden can become part of the Pollinator Pathway will be available.
View local Pollinator Pathway Website

 
Contact MGC at info@manchestergardenclubs.org