Stony Brook Garden Club of Princeton

May 21, 2019

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June 14, 2018

In the first civic project of 2018/19, Merrill Long, Judy Sarvary, Bonnie Higgins, Harriette Brainard planted a vegetable garden at Princeton Nursery School with some of the pre school children.

May 17, 2017

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Elm Court and Harriet Bryan House located at 300 Elm Road, Princeton are affordable housing communities for the elderly and are affiliates of Princeton Community Housing. Their Community Garden was established in 2009 to provide residents with their own garden to plant vegetables and flowers.  The Community Garden initiative was spearheaded by Mike Maloney, a landscape designer with Maspro Imagery who also designed the garden. The fully accessible garden is comprised of forty plots and includes several raised beds.

After years of partnering with Harriet Bryan House in our annual flower arranging workshop with residents (held each February), SBGC is growing the partnership and piloting a Garden Buddy program.  The program allows 1:1 (or multiple:1) club members to work with residents on planting and maintaining their raised beds.

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December 11, 2017

A beautiful autumn morning brought a group of us to D&R Greenway to design and plant a bed of native plants. D&R prepared a bed near the parking lot and provided us with seedlings grown in their greenhouse. We all put our heads together, and transformed a drab patch of grass, previously home to a lonely ironwood tree, to a beautiful bed of plants native to New Jersey. We will all enjoy watching the plants grow and develop as we come and go from our monthly meetings at D&R. Thank you everyone! 

January 01, 2020

Thank you to all who participated in the Elm Court Flower Arranging Workshop! I know we all agree it was a big success! Thank you to each of you for sharing your time, talents and energy with the residents. The flowers everyone brought were beautiful and your enthusiasm for the project just terrific! I got such a kick out of looking around the room and seeing everyone working together so closely and clearing enjoying the moment. Each and every one of us clearly got something out of the afternoon and I know Fay was most appreciative.A special thanks to Louise for proposing the project and to Daphne for doing the demo. I learned a few things myself!I know those beautiful arrangements and the special afternoon will linger for quite a while! ~ Betsy and SarahCivic Projects Co-Chairs

December 08, 2016

Our December Civics Project brought us back to Historic Rockingham where our volunteers decorated the house for their annual Candlelight Tour under the guidance of Lisa Flick, the Site Director. The Candlelight Tour for 2015 had a theme of how American Christmas customs evolved through our history, with Rockingham periods as a backdrop. Thanks to the help of our SBGC volunteers Rockingham was decorated to depict 6 eras in 6 different rooms; Higgins, Berrien, Cruser,Van Pelt, quarry workers, Washington Headquarters Association

November 09, 2016

On Thursday, October 15th, a group of enthusiastic SBGC volunteers gathered at the Watershed for the winter clean-up of the Kate Gorrie Butterfly House. As part of this Civics project, we put the Butterfly House to bed and weeded the rain garden. 38 monarch caterpillars and 2 chrysalis' were transplanted to the swamp milkweed in the rain garden. The Watershed was very grateful and already asked the SBGC to return for Spring planting!

December 02, 2016

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