Tag: Rumson Garden Club

  • Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Dec. 21

    Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Dec. 21

    Tinton Falls Borough Council members have authorized a decrease in the contract for improvements at one of the borough’s parks. During a meeting on Dec. 6, council members passed a resolution which authorizes a $19,372 decrease in the contract with Precise Construction Inc. for the Sycamore Park improvement project. The initial contract for the park…

  • Rumson Garden Club awards scholarship to Trinity Hall senior

    Rumson Garden Club awards scholarship to Trinity Hall senior

    RUMSON — At its 2022 annual meeting at the Rumson Country Club Riverhouse, Rumson Garden Club, a member club of the Garden Club of America, awarded the Catherine B. Gonska Memorial Scholarship to Trinity Hall senior Annaliese K. Heidelberger. The $2,500 scholarship is presented annually to a local high school student who plans to attend…

  • Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Feb. 2

    Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Feb. 2

    Rumson Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club of America, announced it will offer a new scholorship in memory of Catherine B. Gonska, a committed gardener and environmentalist. The scholarship will be presented to a Two River area student who plans to attend an accredited college and has a demonstrated interest in any area…

  • Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Dec. 15

    Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Dec. 15

    Rumson Garden Club, a member club of Garden Club of America, held its 91st annual Christmas Holiday Greens Workshop on Dec. 4-5 at Rumson’s Bingham Hall. Members worked to create almost 200 festive wreaths and arrangements to spread holiday cheer and help local nonprofit organizations deck their halls. This year, the list of organizations that…

  • Fair Haven tree wins third place in New Jersey Big Tree Hunt

    Fair Haven tree wins third place in New Jersey Big Tree Hunt

    FAIR HAVEN – On the rainy morning of June 3, six members of the Rumson Garden Club’s conservation book club gathered to cheer on fellow club member Wendy Murphy as she and the borough of Fair Haven – on behalf of a tulip tree – received a third place award from Joseph C. Bennett, New…

  • Rumson Garden Club awards scholarship to local student

    Rumson Garden Club awards scholarship to local student

    RUMSON- The Rumson Garden Club has announced that Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School 2020 graduate Jack Spagnuola is this year’s recipient of the Rita Boyle Memorial Scholarship. In a press release, the garden club said the young man plans to attend Villanova University, Villanova, Pa., where he will study biology and how the environment affects…

  • Rumson Garden Club sponsors statewide meeting

    Rumson Garden Club sponsors statewide meeting

    The Rumson Garden Club served as the host to a New Jersey Zone IV Meeting  recently at the Navesink Country Club in Middletown. Members from the 12 Garden Club of America (GCA) clubs located in New Jersey were welcomed by president Joan Lynch and members of the Rumson Garden Club, according to a press release.…

  • Rumson Garden Club scholarship announced

    The Rumson Garden Club will offer the Rita Morgan Boyle Scholarship to one qualified Rumson student planning to attend or is already attending college. The individual will receive the scholarship must have an interest in horticulture, landscape design or environmental areas of study. All applicants are required to write an essay detailing their individual accomplishments,…

  • Rumson organizations praise the value of plants

    Rumson organizations praise the value of plants

    Plants offer more than being attractive. So says officials from the Rumson Garden Club and the Rumson Shade Tree Commission. “Native shrubs and perennials help sustain our land and waterways,” Rumson Garden Club President Liz Card said. The Rumson Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club of America, will team up with the Rumson…