NCGC News
Celebrate Earth Month with the New Canaan Garden Club on April 22nd at Irwin Park
The New Canaan Garden Club is hosting a 20th Anniversary event at Irwin Park on Wednesday, April 22nd at 3:00 PM in collaboration with the New Canaan Library and other local organizations to support of Earth Month: New Canaan Celebrates Biodiversity.
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- Garden Tour tickets at $75 each: A limited number of tickets are available so purchase your tickets NOW!
- Gourmet Garden Picnic Lunch at $30 each: Catered by Carolyn's Absolutely Fabulous Events and only available to purchase in advance. Box includes a variety of tea sandwiches, a seasonal salad, scones with clotted cream and jam and a delightful selection of house made desserts.
- Become an Event Patron: Enhance your support by becoming an Event Patron at the Daffodil, Tulip or Hyacinth level. Some levels include our Preview Party on Wednesday, June 4th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm in the garden of a private New Canaan home. Patron names received by April 1, will be included in the Tour Program.
Ticket sales begin March 1st!
Join us on Thursday, June 5th for the 2025 Gardens in Bloom Garden Tour, hosted by the New Canaan Garden Club (NCGC). This exclusive, self-guided tour will offer an extraordinary opportunity to explore some of New Canaan’s most breathtaking private gardens that are otherwise not open to the public.
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.
Flowers on Wheels
Kris Johnson and Stephanie Radman had been delivering meals to the Meals on Wheels of New Canaan clients for the past few years. A few years ago, they took it...
Holiday Arrangements for Meals on Wheels and New Canaan Inn
The Holiday Arrangements for Meals on Wheels and the New Canaan Inn developed three years ago as a natural extension of the annual Christmas Wreath Making workshop. Using the small...
Holiday Greens Workshop
Since 1960, the Garden Club has convened each December to make large holiday wreaths for our downtown area and buildings. In 1976, we joined forces with the New Canaan Beautification...
Holiday Stroll
Each year Garden Club members decorate trees and wreaths for the annual Holiday Stroll held in downtown New Canaan prior to the holiday season. The trees surround the stage for...
Horticulture Therapy at Waveny Care Center
The Horticultural Therapy Program at Waveny Care Center was established when Waveny opened in 1975. Professionally trained volunteers, including several New Canaan Garden Club members, met weekly with residents to...
Irwin Park
Opened in 2005, Irwin Park is best described as a people sanctuary, with benches and chairs scattered among its vast lawns, fields and orchards. An environmentally friendly Flexi-pave trail, funded...
Peony Walk in Waveny Park
Funds were raised in the spring of 2013 to help restore the Peony Walk in Waveny Park. The first phase consisted of simply clearing masses of weeds and extraneous plant material...
Waveny Care Flowers
NCGC’s involvement at Waveny Care Center is longstanding, starting when the center opened over 40 years ago. Championed and nurtured by pioneer flower volunteer and NCGC member Allison Caesar, the...
Waveny Walled Garden and Parterre Garden
The Waveny Walled Garden was originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted's firm as a formal rose garden. In 1995 a committee of Garden Club horticulture devotees redesigned the garden as...
New Canaan Museum & Historical Society
The NCGC has maintained the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society garden for 30 years. It is made up of the Shirley Bird perennial garden and an 18th century Colonial...
The New Canaan Garden Club celebrates the iconic habitats of southwestern Connecticut: woodlands, meadows, ponds, streams and wetlands. These ecological zones support biodiversity and all life within them is interconnected. Plants are often the first thing we notice when looking at these habitats. Yet, in any given landscape, plants are only half the story. The plant world cannot exist without its animal & fungal partners. They have developed co-dependent relationships through centuries of evolution.
Plants and insect pollinators (bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles) have developed complex inter-relationships over thousands of years.