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