Who We Are

​As an active group from the greater Hartford area, we share our gardening interests and skills in a small, friendly club setting. We promote knowledge, interest and participation in five key garden-related areas:

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Civic Projects  |  Conservation  |  Floral Design  |  Horticulture  |  Photography 

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We learn though a variety of meetings, guest speakers, hands-on workshops and field trips. We also volunteer for a range of community outreach programs and continue to build a substantial legacy of civic projects. 

As a not-for-profit club we support many worthwhile organizations in our region in addition to developing our close affiliations with garden groups in the New England Region. As one of 20 clubs in Zone II of the Garden Club of America, we are proud to be part of a strong vibrant organizations formed of nearly 20,00 members that help influence the legislative process in conservation matters and celebrate nature’s beauty.

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CVGC Supports:

• CT Historical Society

• CT Horticultural Society

• CT River Watershed Council

• Farmington River Watershed Council

• Federated Garden Club Scholarship Fund

• GCA Scholarship Fund

• Heritage Rose Garden at Elizabeth Park

• Hill-Stead Museum

• Knox Parks Foundation​

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CVGC Civic Project History

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• Planting McCook Hospital Grounds with Green Bay Tree received certificates of Civic Achievement for Landscaping

• Field Guide to Spice Bush Swamp (distributed to the West Hartford Schools)

• Labeled 60 Trees with Garden Club of Hartford in Bushnell Park

• Old State House project Save the Old State House

• Interpretative Renovation of the Sunken Garden at Hill-Stead Museum with the Garden Club of Hartford

• Restoration of the Gardens at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House

• For Riverfront Recapture Purchased two Concrete Planters

• Completion of the Sunrise Overlook Project in Hartford at Elizabeth Park

• Bushnell Park Playscape Project, CVGC Raised $15,000

• Funded Topiary Animals Project at Connecticut Childrens Medical Center in Hartford

• Donated $15,000 to the Hill-Stead Museum for Pond Restoration

• Fulfillment of a multi-year commitment of $100,000 to create a Heritage Rose Garden in Elizabeth Park in honor of our 2017 Centennial.

• Funded the Auerfarm Nourishing Gardens Project to create raised gardens and cultivate crops for the Healing Meals Project

• Funded the Restoration of Harriet Beecher Stowe House Gardens Project to reestablish nine themed gardens, plantings and hardscape

• Funded the Noah Webster House Project to restore and create an outdoor educational space with hardscape and plantings

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CVGC is a member of the following organizations:

• Garden Club of America

• National Garden Clubx

• New England Region of National Garden Clubs

• Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc.

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Board and Committees

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Past Presidents