The Garden Club of Orange designed wreaths to decorate the buildings in town for the holidays. Front row, from left: Rita Kelly, Lana Ho and Nancy Becque. Back row, from left: Caroline Dirsa, Betty Hadlock, Teresa Evangeliste, Marianne Bauer, Laurian Kehoe, Gail Nixon and Linda Bradford. Photo courtesy of the Garden Club of Orange.
The Garden Club of Orange has been busy decorating the town.
The club spent the morning of Nov. 19 decorating over a dozen wreaths to adorn the doors for the town buildings. Nancy Beque purchased fresh wreaths from a local Orange farm. Members brought clippings of greens such as pine, juniper, boxwood and holly berries from their yards to embellish the wreaths and added red bows. The holiday wreaths were ready for the tree lighting ceremony on Dec. 1.
On Nov. 22 the club also decorated the Case Memorial Library rotunda for the holiday season. Under the direction of Lana Ho, members have spent the last few meetings decorating new evergreen roping, swags and wreaths that adorn the railings around the rotunda. Ho designed the swags and roping and many of the club members implemented her design.
The club joined with other groups to decorate the Osborne Homestead Museum in Derby for the holidays with a theme of nature’s helpers and pollinators. Each group was given a room to decorate with a different helper or pollinator. The garden club decorated Eva Little’s bedroom and front bathroom with hummingbirds. Club members attended summer workshops and have created hummingbirds and flowers they pollinate from colorful papers. These delicate creations along with other festive decorations have been used to enhance the two rooms.
For information about membership in the Garden Club of Orange, contact Eileen at 203-878-9597.