Grafton Garden Club

Welcome

 

We're late and have Started a Great Year!

Sorry for the delay in updating the website! We have been busy with all the activities since the year started!We've created Scarecrows at Bemis Farms in Spencer (and had a great time helping lots of families create theirs on the "Paint a Face" table that was stop 3 in the process. We participated in Art in Bloom, which was the first part of the Small Stone Festival which recently wrapped up at the Community Harvest Barn (after the library unfortunately flooded and they needed to find a new venue). We created 12 centerpieces for the Grafton Land Trust's Annual Dinner and had a great time there, even when the fire alarm sent us outside right as dinner was ready. We started December participating in Grafton Celebrates the Holidays where we helped kids make a small centerpiece with greens and decorations. By the middle of December, we were ready for our Winter Celebration Party and Gift Swap at the Willard House! 

 

Monday - Saturday, April 15-20, 2024; 9am - noon

Grafton Garden Club Presents: Grafton Clean-up Week

Location: Grafton Common

Participate in this Spring event to help clean up the town of Grafton. This is a great way to come together for the good of our community. Create a team and clean up a neighborhood. Register your team and clean-up area with Helen Blazis by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Help beautify your own yard with a free tree sapling donated by the Grafton DPW. Refreshments provided by the Grafton Garden Club, Pepperoni Express, Savers Bank, and Swirls and Scoops. Trash bags can be picked up at the Grafton DPW, 67 Old Westboro Road, Grafton during Clean-up Week. Bags, clean-up supplies, and coupons for lunch are available on the Grafton Common on Saturday from 9am-noon.

Cost: Free

 Saturday, April 20, 2024; 9am 

Official Opening of the Grafton Community Garden

Location: Lee Knowlton Community Garden, Estabrook Road; the Garden is closest to the Ole Westborough Road end near the newe location of the Grafton Highway Department (DPW)

The Grafton Community Garden will open for the season with refreshments and a general cleaning up of the Garden and environs. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis (existing renters get first renewal right). Applications are available on our website.

Cost: $20 (one-time) to join & $20 annual rent (20’x20’ plot)

Sunday, May 5, 2024; carpool leaves from Senior Center at 11am

Carpool to Roger Williams Park Botanical Center

Location: Roger Williams Park, 1 Floral Ave., Providence, RI

Join us as we travel by carpool from Grafton to Providence Rhode Island (about a 1-hour drive) or plan to meet us there at noon. Bring a lunch and we’ll eat it there. Built in 2007, the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center is an oasis in the heart of Roger Williams Park. There are over 23,000 square feet of indoor display gardens while outdoor gardens include summer and winter gardens, a rose maze, and a newly installed pollinator meadow. To protect the ecosystem, they practice a no-chemical approach to plant maintenance in the gardens, greenhouses, and grounds. The year-round 70-degree temperatures in the greenhouses create a tropical ecosystem while the outdoor gardens emphasize plants native to the New England region. In both the indoor and outdoor gardens, you will find insects, birds, fish, and many other inhabitants all working together to create a balanced ecosystem. Please register for a carpool by May 1, 2024 by contacting Joan Avato at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Cost: for Grafton Garden Club Members: general admission: $5/person; Seniors 65+ and kids 6-12 are $2; for non-members, we ask that you also chip in something for the gas to get there and back.

Saturday, May 11, 2024; 9am - 1pm

Plant Sale and Raffle

Location: Grafton Common

The Grafton Garden Club Annual Plant Sale and Raffle provides all our scholarship and grant money for the year. All members are encouraged to help on the day of the sale or by donating plants or helping with the planning. We plan on selling vegetable, herbs, annuals, perennials donated by Club members and Grafton residents, and we’ll have a bake sale table and the always popular Raffle table. Things have started to come in from companies for the raffle: Nothing Bundt Cakes is providing a gift certificate for a box of their delicious bundtinis and they'll have a bundt cake for the raffle too. Saddle Shed is again creating a handmade bench and donating something from their shop, Walmart has given us a $50 gift card for the raffle, and we have started to collect plnt-related things from Buy Nothing Grafton Facebook page. (As more donations are received, we hope to update this site).


Cost: free to attend, plants and items for sale along with the raffle tickets

Saturday, June 8, 2024; tour at 10:30am, lunch noon-2pm

Annual Meeting

Location: start at Shirley Williams gardens, 128 Brigham Hill, North Grafton followed by lunch at Post Office Pub also in North Grafton

We’ll start our annual meeting touring the gardens of Shirley Williams on Brigham Hill in Grafton and then we’ll hold the meeting at the Post Office Pub starting at noon and then have lunch. The Annul Meeting is for current members of the Grafton Garden Club only. Please contact Evelyn Guillette at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by June 1, 2024 for reservations.
Cost: lunch (club pays first $10 per member)