Album is the Groton Public Library Circle Garden 2003. It has green covers with metal eyelets and fasteners. Includes plans and color photos with black borders with white paper numbers.

Name/Title

Album is the Groton Public Library Circle Garden 2003. It has green covers with metal eyelets and fasteners. Includes plans and color photos with black borders with white paper numbers.

Entry/Object ID

2016.1.1078

Scope and Content

Album is the Groton Public Library Circle Garden 2003. It has green covers with metal eyelets and fasteners. Includes plans and color photos with black borders with white paper numbers. Copies of notes on white paper with black printing unless noted. Award for the Round Garden Project in tan with blue borders with gold seal. Brief History of the Round Garden at the Groton Public Library beginning in 1978 with a touch and smell garden. In 1978 the Trillium Garden was born and undertook the design to begin in 2003.Their redesign won an award from the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc. Page 1) Title Page "Trillium Garden Club Groton Public Library Circle Garden Project Summer 2003" Page 2) White page with black print - Table of contents with a color photo -picture of a sign "A Work in Progress by the Trillium Garden Club Page 3) 2 color photos with black borders. Top reads (in white ink) "Groton Public Library Circle Garden Spring 2003" with a "1" in upper left corner. Photo is of the garden empty. Middle reads "Summer 2003." Photo is of the garden planted. Page 4) drawing of the circle garden "Basic layout ¼" equals 1 ft." "Groton Public Library Circle Garden Trillium Garden Page 5) drawing of the circle garden with random spaced annuals Page 6) drawing of circle garden " Initial Planting Summer 2003" Page 7) - 20) 2 color photos on each page of the circle garden being planted with wide black borders. No one is identified, some look like workers from Parks and Recreation Department Page 21) - Handwritten notes Trillium Garden Club Groton Circle Garden Committee with B. Jacobsen, C. Smith & A (?). Burbank Page 22) Notes from meeting with Parks and Recreation-Town of Groton Sam Popinchalk - Tree Warden and William Brennan -Supervisor Page 23) April 29th - Notes from Trillium Club Meeting about the Planting of Raised Circle Garden. Question about offer from Parks and Recreation - Town of Groton, what would Recreation provide? Would they consider replanting the plants taken out of the garden? Etc. Attended by Betty Jacobsen, Gertrude Smith, Libbie Burdick and Cindy Baril. Page 24) May 5 - With the help Parks and Recreations to scale round garden plans, club voted to accept Parks and Recreations offer to dig up old plants, replace soil and plant new plants Page 25) 5/9/2003 - Parks and Recreation dug up old plants. Club members Aria Retsma and Cindy Baril took old plants and planted them on their property. Color photo on plain paper glued to page of a display case with citation, album and glass octagon. Page 26) 5/17/03 - Soil arrived and was raked in. Club members who planted were Jeanette Burnett, Edie Geer, Betty Jacobsen, Joanne Steinford, Nobi Williams and Tina MacBain. Page 27) Page has 8 on the top left of page with color photo of the round garden in bloom . Page has expenses incurred. Page 28 & 29) Dated 6/4th and 6/6/ 2003 - a) Groton Library Project met to discuss purchasing of tulips and daffodils Purchases made will planted on 6/6 with the help of Anna Kasuga. B) copy of page 27 with color photo of planting tulips and daffodils. Page 30) Copy of diagram of garden design with notations of daffodil and tulip plantings all handwritten. Page 31) 3 daffodils cultivar photos with names with black ink pages with "9" in upper right corner in white ink. Page 32) Award on vellum paper with blue scalloped border with gold seal. Blue logo the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut with tree inside circle, Award of Excellence from the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc. to the Trillium Garden Club for medium club in Civic Development for their Redesign of the Entrance Garden at the Groton Public Library Dated October 20, 2004 Signed by B. Haddock Awards Chairman and Meg Bremmer President. Page 33) 2 photos of women working on the round garden undated Page 34 - 37) white paper copy of handwritten "The Round Garden at the Groton Public Library .. A bit of history.. begins as a touch and smell garden in 1978 named for Jack Wilkinson and designed by Groton Garden Club who won an Sears Civic Beautification Bowl from the Federated Gardens of Connecticut for the design and planting The Trillium Club began as combination of the Groton, Oswegatchie and Rake and Trowel Garden Clubs in 1987 The Trillium Club undertook a new project, to redesign and replant the Circle Garden. signed by Sheila Fuller and Anne Potter

Collection

James L. Streeter Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2016.1

Source or Donor

Streeter, James L.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Album

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Memorabilia

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Awards, Clubs, Domestic life, Fund raising, Gardening, Gardens

Search Terms

Communications & Public Utilities, Fund Raising, Gardens & Yards, Libraries, Photography, CT River Coastal Conservation District, Inc., Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc., Garden Clubs of Southeastern Connecticut, Inc., Groton Garden Club, Groton Public Library, Groton Public Library Round Garden, Oswegatchie Garden Club, Rake and Trowel Garden Club, Sears Civic Beautification Bowl, Town of Groton Parks and Recreation, Trillium Garden Club, UCONN Master Garden Program, White Flower Farm, Groton

Archive Details

Creator

Trillium Garden Club

Date(s) of Creation

1978 - 2003

Restrictions

Access: Discolouration/fading, metal fasteners, dent marks in green cover and glue marks.

General Notes

Note

Status: Good Status By: Sheila Sullivan Status Date: 2024-02-28