Green Fingers Garden Club Supports Gateway Gardens

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Green Fingers Garden Club members and Peter Grunow, landscape designer, at Gateways Gardens, Oct. 18 for a ribbon cutting ceremony. Left to right: Evelyn Lorentzen-Bell, Ann Hagmann, Peter Grunow, Anne Bourne, Debbie Sterling, Martha Robinson Heard, Diana Samponaro, Andi Putnam, Lane Reardon, Mitzi Armstrong, Jane Marsh, Gaby Hall, FiFi Sheriden, and Peggy McDermott Missing: Barbara Arenz, Jeanne Host, Karen Royce, and Marie Woodburn.
Green Fingers Garden Club members and Peter Grunow, landscape designer, at Gateways Gardens, Oct. 18 for a ribbon cutting ceremony. Left to right: Evelyn Lorentzen-Bell, Ann Hagmann, Peter Grunow, Anne Bourne, Debbie Sterling, Martha Robinson Heard, Diana Samponaro, Andi Putnam, Lane Reardon, Mitzi Armstrong, Jane Marsh, Gaby Hall, FiFi Sheriden, and Peggy McDermott Missing: Barbara Arenz, Jeanne Host, Karen Royce, and Marie Woodburn.

At the entrance to Greenwich Point, Christopher Franco, President of Greenwich Point Conservancy, and others cut the ribbon on the Gateway Gardens and the Old Barn Susie H. Baker Pavilion. Green Fingers Garden Club donated the funds for the new gardens and advised Greenwich Point Conservancy and landscaper Peter Grunow on the plantings. As a coastal area, the use of grasses and mostly native plants was important to attract birds and other pollinators and ensure the viability of the landscaping. Green Fingers president Martha Robinson Heard said, “ We are proud to have been a part of the revitalization of one of the jewels of Greenwich. With funds raised from our Preview of Spring Flower Shows, we are gratified to contribute gardens to our community which are in keeping with the natural beauty and historical significance of the Point, and are accessible to all.”

About Green Fingers Garden Club: Green Fingers, established in 1935, is a Garden Club of America garden club in Greenwich that aims to increase the knowledge of horticulture, to develop the art of floral design and photography, to further the ideas of conservation, and to work for the development of civic projects. Greenfingersgardenclub.org.

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