About Us:

The purpose of the Wilton Garden Club is to stimulate interest in and knowledge of horticulture, conservation, flower arranging, garden design and assist in the development of civic beauty. The programs of the Wilton Garden Club are designed to meet these objectives.

History:

When the Wilton Garden Club was organized in the autumn of 1921, Warren G. Harding was President of the United States. Since then, our town and our country have changed in so many ways, but the Garden Club's commitment to Wilton has remained constant.

The club has always been more civic-minded than social. Education, conservation, preservation, and beautification have been its cornerstones although the projects may have changed over the years.

Beautification was an issue from the very beginning. Members planted trees on the town green, daylilies and shrubs along roadsides, and evergreens along neglected stretches of highway. In the early twenties the club was instrumental in bringing a state forester to Wilton to inspect the trees, and, in an effort to save the threatened elms, sponsored twice-yearly spraying.

The Garden Club planted extensively at Post Office Square and the Wilton Center Railroad Station. For many years it provided and maintained the window boxes and plants for the Post Office, and club members beautified the grounds of district schools. Club archives reveal that in those early years the Garden Club and the Civic Club worked together to raise funds for lights in Wilton Center. Through the thirties, the club maintained a small experimental nursery behind Old Town Hall where dogwoods from the Connecticut Arboretum were nurtured and later transplanted to the roadsides near the new Town Hall.