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Ongoing Programs

Arboretum and Sanctuary
The Three Village Garden Club owns and maintains a 4.6 acre nature sanctuary in Setauket. The arboretum is located at 1 Bates Road (on the south side of the Caroline Church.) Its trails are open to be enjoyed by the public. We also hold educational programs for elementary school children.
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Street Garden Recognition Program
Homeowners, who have created gardens that can be enjoyed from the street by all, are encouraged to enter them in our Street Garden Recognition Program.

Floral Design
a demonstration or a workshop is held every month, either hands-on or as a lecture.

Garden Therapy
Twice a year, members of our club meet at the Long Island State Veterans’ Home in Stony Brook to help the patients create arrangements of fresh greens and flowers. The veterans enjoy this hands-on activity and have a beautiful arrangement that they can take back to their rooms to enjoy, or to give as a gift.
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Plant-a-Smile
To bring a bit of cheer to local hospice patients, a few of our members arrange flowers in budvases after our monthly general meeting and deliver these to Good Shepherd Hospice.

 


In addition, twice a year, club members arrange and distribute small arrangements or plants to senior citizens who receive meals-on-wheels from St. Charles Hospital. These small gestures are so much appreciated.

Library
Club members display flower arrangements in the front lobby at the Setauket library.

The educational programs our club members conduct every year for children, teens and adults at the Emma S. Clark Library are very popular.
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Fundraisers
Our ‘Annual Greenery Boutique’ is held every year on the first Saturday in December. The date, location and times for this year will be published this fall.

Flower shows with Home and Garden Tours are scheduled intermittently. Dates will appear on the Events Calendar.

Horticulture Programs
are conducted monthly and include guided tours to arboretums, private gardens, and other places of related interest.Trips and tours to destinations farther away are planned intermittently. Recently we visited the Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden upstate New York in North Salem.

Scholarships
We award scholarships to qualifying graduating seniors in the community who are pursuing a degree in Botany, horticulture, environmental science and related fields.

Summer camp scholarships are awarded to junior high school students who are interested in nature for an experience in NY State’s Environmental Camp.

Contributions
The World Gardening program is dear to our hearts and we contribute to it every year. As members of the NYS Garden Clubs, we support this effort by donating towards the education and regeneration of a community in a needy location.

We support the Scholarship program of the Federated Garden Clubs of NYS through District II.

A floral design or a monetary contribution is given to the LI Museums of Stony Brook for their Annual Holiday Auction.

Non-perishable food items are also collected for Island Harvest, a Long Island food pantry.

Misc
We plant and maintain the traditional herb garden at the Thompson House, as well as the small front garden at the Bayles-Swezey House, both on North Country Road. During the Fall, we participate in the decoration of one room in the Vanderbilt Museum for the holiday season.

 

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