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The Garden Club of Wiscasset fosters community through educational programs, conservation efforts, social gatherings, fundraising events, and the beautification and preservation of local gardens.

Shiny, shimmering, and oh-so-chic! ✨ For our March 5th flower design practice, we challenged our members to “Put a Little Glitz in Your Life” by creating stunning metallic arrangements.

The requirement was to go bold and try for at least 60% of the display featuring a metallic element—whether through polished containers or creatively painted foliage. From sleek silver vessels to foil leaves that caught every bit of light, the results were absolutely dazzling. It’s amazing how a little luster can completely transform a bouquet!

Swipe to see these brilliant, member-made displays from different angles.

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Is this your sign to join the garden club in 2026? 🌷👒✨
… … …
Absolutely! 🌹🌸💃🏻🌻🪻

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Thanks to everyone who joined us on December 4th for our annual holiday gathering! 🌲✨
Together, we celebrated the season by creating Meals on Wheels mugs and festive baskets to brighten up local spaces.

This year’s event included a fun new addition — a wreath-making lesson led by Peter Arnold!

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Thanks to all who were able to make it on Dec. 4th to our annual holiday season creating meals-on-wheels mugs and decorated baskets for local spaces!

This year introduced a new treat for participants, with a lesson on wreath making, hosted by Peter Arnold!

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Talk about a gourd-geous challenge! 🧡 For our October 2nd flower design practice, the theme was to create an arrangement using any kind of gourd or squash—either as the vessel or integrated into the design.

The creativity was incredible, using everything from Delphinium and Zinnias to Protea and Black-Eyed Susans, all accented by the perfect autumn squash.
Swipe to see the amazing work!

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What gourd-geous autumn designs from our members! 🍁 Our October 2nd flower design practice theme: Gourds & Squashes as containers or design elements. Fresh, dried, vibrant, or spooky—our members delivered!
Love seeing all this fall creativity. Which design makes you feel the most festive? 👇

#AutumnVibes #Gourds #FloralArrangements #DesignInspiration #FlowerLove #Wiscasset #gardenclub #gardenclubfederationofmaine #flowerarrangements

Some behind the scenes of potting and prep for our biggest fundraiser of the year. 🌷🌸🌹🌻

Rain or Shine!🌦️ If it’s rainy, come find us in the main Town Hall Room in the town offices.

Looking forward to seeing you! 😁

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🌸 Plant Sale! 🌺

It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year, the GCW Plant Sale! Saturday, May 10th 8:30am to Noon.

Wiscasset Town Office front lawn. See you there!

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Several members gathered for a “Decorate a cap” flower design workshop in late March.
Here are photos of some of the Garden Hat designs, as displayed at our April 3rd meeting.

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*This event, originally scheduled for Thurs, Feb 6th has been postponed to Thursday, Feb 13th due to predicted inclement weather.*

“Vernal Pools” presented by The Chewonki Foundation Traveling Natural History Programs at 1:00 PM on February 13th, 2025. The meeting is in Fellowship Hall at the First Congregational Church, 28 High Street, Wiscasset.
This program will help us understand how a wetland that has water for only a few months can have such an important impact on amphibian and invertebrate life cycles.

This event is free to attend and open to the public.

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Maine’s Frogs and Toads – January 2, 2025

For our first program of the season, Science Educator Bryce Hach (North Yarmouth Academy) introduced GCW members to Maine’s diverse frogs and toads. Attendees learned to identify their calls and winter survival strategies. A major highlight—Bryce brought live frogs for an up-close look, making the session an unforgettable hands-on experience!

This event was open to the public and free to attend. Check out our website Events Page to learn about similar upcoming events.

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The Flower Design Theme for January 2nd, our first meeting of 2025, was “A Design Inspired by Your Occupation”. These beautiful submissions did not disappoint!

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On December 5th GCW members gathered for our annual tradition of spreading holiday cheer!
Members decorated baskets of fresh greens to spruce up local spaces, as well as 70 mugs for Meals-on-Wheels recipients, and an additional 14 mugs for the volunteer drivers!

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Many hands makes for light work, and cheerful conversation makes for a good time.

Fall cleanup at the Sunken Garden.

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The Garden Club of Wiscasset invites you to attend:
“Garden Design: A New England Lens”
Thursday, November 7th, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Free to the public!

Geography and cultural history are pertinent when making garden design decisions, particularly in New England’s unique and diverse landscapes, from river valleys to
rolling fields to narrow, rocky corridors. We will learn how to establish a sense of place and belonging in our Maine gardens. No matter what cultural elements and influences you want to incorporate, this presentation will help you get creative while staying true to a sense of place.

Presented by Irene Brady Barber
Irene is a Registered Horticultural Therapist (HTR), landscape designer, and, horticulturist. Irene managed the Adult Education Program for Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens for more than a decade before moving to private practice and consulting.

The Garden Club of Wiscasset’s 2024 entry for the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce Scarecrow Contest can be found at the corner of Morton st & Federal St.

We are entry #8

Vote at the @wiscasset_area_chamber of Commerce website: https://wiscassetchamber.com/vote-here-for-best-scarecrow/

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Event open to the public - Free to attend!

Oct 03, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
First Congregational Church, 28 High St, Wiscasset, ME

“Coastal Birds Project” - Each spring, endangered Piping Plovers and Least Terns return to nest and raise their young on southern Maine beaches. For more than 35 years, Maine Audubon and their partners have worked with local residents, landowners, and visitors to ensure that endangered birds, wildlife, and people can safely share the beach. We will learn about Maine Audubon’s efforts to protect these birds and their habitat.

Hosted by the Garden Club of Wiscasset
Presented by @maineaudubon Coastal Birds Project Staff

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Join us on Thursday, September 5th, 1-2pm, for this open-to-the-public educational event presented by Wiscasset Garden Club members Peter Arnold.

Enjoy fresh greens all year by growing your own indoor micro-greens garden. Peter will provide information about containers, growing medium, seed-starting, lighting and maintenance of your micro-green garden.

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Wiscasset Artwalk today, 4-7pm!
We’ll be in front of Treat’s Bakery on Main st.
Come say hello 👋 and check out the flower bouquets 💐 we have for sale. Proceeds fund scholarships for local high school graduates.

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August late afternoon in The Coastal Cancer Treatment Center Garden

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The Pownalborough Court House Garden

Garden Design Background (text from plaque)
“The Pownalborough Court House Period Garden was designed utilizing a format and plant material commonly found here from 1761 to 1800. Settlers of this period usually patterned their garden after the Tudor style in England, which was based on a medieval plan. The shape was often square or rectangular, with some aspects of symmetry present. Alleys or paths divided the space allowing easy access for planting, weeding and harvesting. Ornamentation was kept to a minimum, and if utilized at all, the form might be a sundial or bee skep. Traditionally, four plant groups were cultivated: vegetables, herbs, flowers (mostly medicinal with perhaps a few ornamentals), and fruit. Before the Revolution, there were not many nurseries as we know them today, so plant material was exchanged from one gardener/farmer to another.
Garden Description
The garden overall is approximately 20’ x 30’ and it incorporates a grape arbor which was commonly found during this time period. At the center of the main section (20’ x 20’) is a 6’ circular area featuring a sundial surrounded by a mix of flowers.
In keeping with the time period, the specific plants initially chosen for this project are primarily utilitarian in nature, with only a few ornamentals that would have been introduced after the Revolution.”

If you would like to help with the planting or maintenance of this garden, consider joining the Garden Club of Wiscasset. Link to website in our bio.

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Despite the momentary showers passing through, our first #artwalk of the season was a great success!
Next ArtWalk will be on July 25th. We hope to see you there!

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Happy 40th Anniversary GCW!

On June 19th, 1984, just a few weeks after it was organized, the Garden Club of Wiscasset became a member of the Garden Club Federation of Maine!

Forty years later, two of the original Charter Members are still members of GCW. Here’s a special shout-out of gratitude to those members for their leadership, hard work, and inspiration for sticking with us from the beginning to today!

Here’s more! Including pioneers Esther and Patti, a total of six more remaining members joined GCW between 1984-1994. Ten more of our current members joined in our 2nd decade between 1994-2004. Furthermore, between 2004-2014, in our 3rd decade as a club, another fourteen of our remaining members joined. Finally, during our 4th and current decade, 2014-2024, forty-seven more gardeners joined GCW, the vast majority joining after COVID.

This lovely combination of newer members and others bridging decades of experience is very much a part of the magic of the Garden Club of Wiscasset and its growing energy. Let’s take a moment to celebrate the Garden Club of Wiscasset’s 40th anniversary and to thank every one of us for choosing to share the love of gardens and gardening with each other and our community.

In addition to dreaming up the next great things to come, milestones like these provide a wonderful opportunity to reflect on our past endeavors and achievements. With this in mind, the GCW Historian sub-committee aims to research and document notable moments of GCW’s history for posterity.

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Behind the scenes in “The Prettiest Village in Maine”
Garden Club of Wiscasset members tending to the Sunken Garden.

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We’re thrilled to be back on Instagram!
Follow for inspiring images of our enchanting gardens and to learn about the educational events we host here in Wiscasset.

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Meetings

Rear entrance of a church with handicapped parking and a ramp.

Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month (Sept-May) at:

The First Congregational Church

28 High St, Wiscasset, ME 04578

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Check out our newest ad-hoc committee, focused on applying insights from the burgeoning field of Therapeutic Gardening to public spaces here in Maine.

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We’re Growing with Google!

We have some exciting "digital" seedlings popping up! As your Communications Co-Chair, I am thrilled to announce that the Garden Club of Wiscasset has been officially accepted as a Grow with Google Partner. What is Grow with Google? Grow with Google is a community education initiative that helps nonprofits like ours gain the digital skills needed to thrive in a modern world. To date, they have helped millions of Americans grow their skills, and 75% of certificate graduates

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Seed Starting - What to do next

By Canny Cahn Hello, Seedling Parents- Now that your cherry tomato seeds have gotten past their infancy, it’s time to help them go from crawling to tentative walking. That means that they need to strettttch. “Plant them up” to the next size cell - preferably in a square at least 3” deep - when at least one good pair of true (serrated) leaves appear. Don’t let the plants become crowded if you have more than one baby popping up per cell. Unlike most seedlings, tomatoes thrive

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ad hoc Committee: Library Gardens Plan

Our Library Gardens are overgrown and require a significant overhaul. The Board agreed to form an ad-hoc committee to develop a master plan with a budget. Beth and Sherry Lyons volunteered for this committee. The Therapeutic Gardening committee also committed to serving on the Library review committee.Would you like to share input or assist in some way? Contact Beth Maxwell or Sherry Lyons

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