Projects

Beautification

The Brattleboro Floral Arts and Garden Club is responsible for several community gardens in Brattleboro.

CREAMERY COVERED BRIDGE

The Club maintains the gardens at the Creamery Covered Bridge in West Brattleboro, just south of Route 9. The Creamery Covered Bridge is a historic lattice truss bridge built in 1879. It is Brattleboro’s last surviving 19th century bridge.

COBBLESTONE PROJECT

The Garden Club invites residents to remember and honor a loved one with a personalized, engraved cobblestone to be used to border the gardens and walkway at the Creamery Covered Bridge Park. They are made locally at Abbiati Monuments.

SCOTT FARM GARDEN AND THE VERMONT STONE TRUST

Scott Farm Orchard in Dummerson, Vermont, is also the home of The Stone Trust Center. While checking out the Farm Store there is also an amazing collection of stone walls and features in a beautiful setting overlooking the nearby hills. The stone wall pictured above was built with a grant through the Stone Trust and the gardens were designed and maintained by members of the Garden Club.

Green Mountain Chapel Gardens

The members of the Garden Club maintain the Green Mountain Chapel gardens in West Brattleboro, as a thank you to the congregation for providing us with meeting space for our monthly general meeting. Their gardens are adorned with daisies, lilies, lavender, astilbe, hosta, and a show-stopping yellow magnolia tree.

World War I Memorial

The gardens and flowers are maintained by the Garden Club. It has provided a serene space to sit and honor local heroes for many years..

The Route 9 facing end of the bridge is pictured above. One can walk across to Guilford Street and Living Memorial Park, which has a small ski tow, town pool, is the location of area softball leagues, hiking trails, an outdoor amphitheater, and the outdoor Kiwanis shelter or walk a few hundred feet down Route 9 to the Brattleboro Farmers Market. From May through October. Because of its location and picturesque setting it is one of the top stops in Brattleboro on Tripadvisor.

The bridge was closed to traffic in 2010, when the Covered Bridge became a pedestrian-only bridge. The Garden Club has been planting & maintaining the flowers at the Creamery Bridge since 1972 on the west side and from 1996 on both sides of the Bridge. In the spring, the embankment under the bridge leading down to the Whetstone Brook is delightfully covered in daffodils. Tulips adorn the entrance sign to the park. There’s a row of peonies backed against a split rail fence at the South entrance to the bridge. Various other native perennials continue to bloom throughout the seasons thanks to the hard work, weeding, and watering our members do!

Personalized, engraved COBBLESTONES are available for a donation of $90 each (fully tax deductible). All monies will go to the improvement of the Creamery Bridge Park.

Giving a gift to the Garden Club for the Creamery Bridge Cobble Project is an opportunity for you to honor your family, significant persons, businesses, and/or organizations; to memorialize loved ones, and to contribute a gift for future generations to enjoy, and to affirm our sense of community pride.

The new garden is now the showcase of the Scott Farm Stand and Meeting Room entry. It is the first area seen after community members park their cars to attend a meeting, class or event. The perennial garden’s hardscaping showcases the capabilities and varieties of stone and slate designs. A significant amount of work went into amending the soil for the new garden, choosing deer resistant plants, and watering and weeding the newly planted specimens.

The farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been active since 1791. This 571-acre farm has been owned since 1995 by the Landmark Trust USA, a Vermont non-profit organization whose mission is to rescue important but neglected historic properties and bring them back to life. It is also the location of the movie, Cider House Rules.

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow“.

– Audrey Hepburn