Welcome to the New London Garden Club

Our members come from New London and the surrounding towns drawn together by shared interests and enthusiasm for gardening, plant material design, civic beautification and improvement, protection of the environment and native species, and community service. The Club offers nine exciting program meetings each year; the programs are as diverse as stonewall building, recycling technology, and home vegetable gardening. Visitors are welcome to all the programs listed under the Program Calendar.

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Civic Beautification of
New London

New London is a quaint New England town nestled in the Lake Sunapee region of New Hampshire. Much of its charm is the result of the planting and maintenance by Garden Club members of many beautiful flowers and shrubs in several public areas. The Library, Beaches, Information Booth, Post Office, Gazebo, Historical Society, Town Buildings, and public gardens are all planted in the spring, cared for during the summer and put to sleep in the fall. This has been the main project of the Club since its inception.

Learn more about the Club Projects.

Purpose of the Club

The purpose of the Club shall be to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and flower arranging, to aid in the protection and perpetuation of desirable native plants and birds, to further civic beautification and improvement, and to cooperate with other agencies interested in these objectives. The Club will seek to promote these goals through scholarships awarded to individuals seeking post-secondary degrees relating to its purpose, donations to local charitable organizations with similar objectives, beautifying public gardens in the area, and educational outreach.

Seasonal Gardening Tips continued

Repair Torn Bark

If a broken branch has left an area of torn bark, trimming off the ragged edges back to leave a smooth edge of healthy tissue will promote the speediest healing. A sharp utility knife is a good tool for this task. Shape the edges of the wound into an pointed oval to encourage good healing.

Practice Prevention
When you add more trees to your landscape, avoid fast-growing, weak-wooded trees like silver maple, Siberian elm, Lombardy poplar, and catalpa. While it's tempting to choose fast growers for a more immediate effect in the landscape, the tradeoff is a greater likelihood of storm damage.

No matter what kind of trees you're growing, encourage young trees to develop strong branch angles on their major limbs and symmetrical branch placement that keeps the center of gravity over the trunk. Narrow branch angles are inherently weak and more apt to break off under a load of snow and ice. When you are selecting trees at the nursery, look for ones with their main branches attached at wide angles (think 10 or 2 o'clock) and symmetrically placed around the trunk. Prune judiciously to encourage this branching habit as the tree grows.

Reprinted by permission of the National Gardening Association. www.garden.org

Contact Us

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Mailing Address:
New London Garden Club
PO Box 1772
New London, NH 03257

Photographs by Bob Crane

Updated: March 15, 2012