News & Awards
2011
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2010
New Vernon Garden Club Wins First Prize for Drumthwacket Holiday Dining Room Design Christmas centerpiece ideas are not always easy to come by, and for Barbara Harrison of Harding Township, decorating the dining room at Drumthwacket seemed a little like being on a reality TV show. Earlier this month, Harrison and five other New Vernon Garden Club members found themselves in friendly competition with gardening groups from Essex Fells, Somerset Valley, Neshanic, Hunterdon Hills, Spring Lake and Montville/Valhalla. Each club was charged with decorating one of seven rooms and the front porch of the official governor’s residence in Princeton. While area garden clubs typically volunteer to install holiday decorations at the house and museum whose name derives from Scottish Gaelic words meaning “wooded hill,” this year’s theme, Homemade Holidays - New Jersey Style, came with the challenge of impressing judges and the public for the title of best room. |
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New Vernon Garden Club will Maintain, Landscape New Library Grounds. “The Observer Tribune.” “Fresh from decorating downtown New Vernon and Drumthwacket for the holidays, the New Vernon Garden Club has turned its attention to the grounds of the new library. At the Township Committee’s Dec. 16 meeting, Nancy McClelland, the garden club’s library landscaping chair, presented the committee with the plan to plant- and maintain low-maintenance trees and shrubs around the new library.”
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 New Vernon Garden Club Donates $25,000 |
2008 - 2009
Certificate of Merit for an Exceptional Yearbook with Gold Seal was presented to Susan Massengill.
Eleanore M. Huson Trophy was presented to Caron Menger, Susan Massengill, Norma Spatz and Anne Thomas for the finest Standard Flower Show Schedule of the year.
Bernardsville GC Trophy was presented to GCNJ member, Carole Kurtz, who was the winner of the Floral Design, Award of Distinction in the highest rated Standard Flower Show in which this award was given.
GCNJ Special Award in the Large Club Category went to Caron Menger for the Town Christmas Decorations Continuing Project and Linda Meister for the Book of Evidence.
2007 - 2008
On April 28, 2008 the New Vernon Garden Club held a standard flower show. The talented and accomplished committee responsible for the resounding success of this event was comprised of Chairperson Caron Menger, Co-chairs Jane Cronin and Carole Kurtz, and Design Chairperson Louise Thorpe. Open to the public and with 100% club participation, ingenuity and brilliance reigned the day.
The National Garden Club’s System of Awards was used.
Top awards went to:
- Carole Kurtz, 2 awards: Designer’s Choice Award and Award of Design Excellence
- Louise Thorpe, Award of Merit for Polypodiaseae, potted fern
- Barbara Wilkerson, Award of Merit and Horticultural Excellence for Tulip “Monsella”
- Joan D’Alessandro, Designer’s Choice, Design Excellence Award
- Denise Bridgens, Educational Award
Photographs of this show can be viewed on Mother’s Flower Power - A Standard Flower Show
View the Educational Exhibit for the Standard Flower Show - “Daffodils: Mother’s Favorite Spring Flower”
2006 - 2007
*The New Vernon Garden Club was presented with the
Net Membership Increase Citation by National Garden Clubs, Incorporated.
*Our Yearbook, which included an impressive array of programs and workshops,
won Highest Rated Yearbook for a Large Size Club -
GCNJ Demarest Garden Club Yearbook Award with silver bowl,
and the Gold Seal Certificate of Merit for Excellence.
*Another lovely New Vernon native plant garden,
the Sarah D. Ortman Garden, won the GCNJ Jesse H. Hyson Award
and received the Garden Club of Mountain Lakes Silver Trophy for Wildflower Presentation.
*The New Vernon Garden Club won the Central Atlantic Region Violet S. Thoron Award
for a continuing project garden. This award was presented at the
Garden Club of New Jersey Fall Conference.
2005 - 2006
* Second Place Award from the Central Atlantic Region
for contributions to Memorial Park in New Vernon.
* Junior Gardeners received the Youth Gardeners’ Honor Roll Award.