2025 SCARECROWS ON THE GREEN COMMUNITY SPIRIT CONTEST
This year, we are adding a bit more fun! All participants and visitors are welcome to vote for their favorite displays that celebrate community and local charm.
● Best Community Social Services Scarecrow
● Most Creative Use of Floral Elements Scarecrow
● Best Group Project: A scarecrow built by a school, a club, or a business.
● Most Humorous: The scarecrow that brings the biggest smile.
● Best Overall Display
QR Codes for Voting will be placed around The Green and on BGC’s Website beginning Monday, October 20th at 5 p.m. Voting ends on Sunday, November 2nd. Winners will be announced on BGC’s website and will receive certifi cates of achievement from Branford Garden Club.
Scarecrows on the Green 2025
Branford Garden Club is hosting the 15th Annual Scarecrows on the Green, Friday, October 17th through Tuesday, November 4th. There is limitless appeal to this fun event! Businesses, schools, non-profits, organizations, individuals/families, churches--everyone can have fun creating and building a scarecrow display (Exceptions: nothing offensive or political.).
Participation increases every year towards our goal of filling the Branford Green! It is great advertising for participants over 2 weeks & 3 weekends. Participants are asked to consider making a donation to the Club supporting our Mission and volunteers work. Registration is requested.
Thank you for your support! This event is FREE to attend.
Click here for Scarecrows Registration info. Donations can be made by credit card via our clubs Square link, or mailed in by check to the address on the above registration application.
FLOWERS FOR FOOD - Thank you for your support!
The Branford Garden Club proudly awarded $2,600 to the Community Dining Room and the Branford Food Pantry. The money was raised in the Flowers for Food sale on the Branford Green in late September.
Members of the Branford Garden Club and Branford Community Gardens donated an extraordinary amount of flowers, greenery, and vegetables from their gardens. Tables of colorful arrangements in teapots, vases, and bouquets were eye-catching and irresistible. Our customers gave generous freewill contributions to help support our neighbors in need. We wish to thank all involved for this making colorful community event so successful.
Photo: left to right: Trish Doyle, Malaine Trecoske (BCG), Paula Inglese, Ann Freeman, and, Sue MacBeth (BFP) and Diana Vaicunas (CDR).
PAST EVENTS
Books & Blooms - Sept 2024
The Branford Garden Club thanks the following individuals, businesses, and guests for their generous support in helping to make our Books & Blooms fundraiser on September 27th, 2024, such a great success. We encourage you to frequent the following businesses as a way of thanking them for their generosity, support and community giving! View some photos from this spectacular event below.
We also want to thank the authors whose books inspired the florists and members of the Club to design such creative and spectacular floral arrangements. Wonderful Job! Many, many thanks go to the generosity of the Branford Garden Club’s friends, family members, and volunteers. We couldn’t have done it without you! For everyone involved, we are deeply appreciative of your time and generosity! Thank you! View photos from this spectacular event below.
BACA in Bloom
The Branford Arts & Cultural Alliance, BACA, and the Branford Garden Club joined their creative forces in an event on August 11-13.
Fifteen designers displayed floral arrangements that took their inspiration from fifteen works of art displayed in the gallery. The theme was to suggest the synergy between art forms, in this case, floral and paintings. The arrangements were testaments to the emotional impact that a work of art is capable of creating for the viewer.
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GARDENS AROUND THE WORLD - The Greater Perfection
Sat, Sept. 24 & Sun, Sept. 25 2022
A Standard Flower Show presented by the Branford Garden Club. The full Flower Show Schedule is available here. Our Featured Gardens - the history, size, & complexity of these gardens is highlighted here just in case you are curious but may not have the opportunity to visit in person. Enjoy!
The Branford Garden club wishes to extend a big Thank You 👏! to the Branford Parks & Recreation Department Community House Staff, the Federated Garden Clubs of CT Judges, the Vendors in our Marketplace, Van Wilgen's Garden Center for loaned shrubs, the public for their support, and lastly our members who worked long hours not only this past weekend but the past year+ planning this successful show. To view Photos from our show click here.
PETALS, PAINT AND POLLINATORS - An Artistic Garden Tour, 2021
The Branford Garden Club in conjunction with the Branford Arts and Cultural Alliance hosted "Petals, Paint and Pollinators" - an artistic Garden tour. Each of the 12 distinctive gardens selected for the tour was paired with a local featured artist and medium.
BACK TO SCHOOL - Breaking all the Rules! 2019
An In-House Horticulture Flower Show. Click FLOWER SHOW SCHEDULE for more information.
THE SOUND & THE FLORA OF STONY CREEK, 2018
The Branford Garden Club presented a Standard Flower Show. This flower show was inside three private homes and six historic buildings throughout the village of Stony Creek. Click FLOWER SHOW SCHEDULE for more information.
A Gardener’s Wedding 2014
Flower Show 2014 - Program
Flower Show 2014 - Newspaper article
Farmer's Market 2010
Flower Show Schedule this is a large file, please allow time to download)