The Garden Club of Bermuda was started in 1921 to stimulate interest in horticulture, floral design and related subjects, and to aid in the conservation of natural resources. To this end its members work hard to raise money for horticultural and environmental scholarships, and to support the local environmental community, whilst having fun along the way!
Our busy Garden Club breaks for the summer months, June to September, and resumes again in October.
Flourishing Floral Friends:
The Woman Spreading Joy With Recycled Blooms
Helen Sawden’s award-winning wedding flowers are coveted for their eye-catching designs and beauty, but once the “I dos” have been said, the happy couple have been toasted and the last guest has left the party, very often they have to be thrown away.
Not anymore. Now, most Sunday mornings between April and November, a rotation of twenty-five volunteers from The Garden Club of Bermuda, led by Floral Friends founder Beth Miller, let themselves into Sawden’s studio, take the wedding arrangements apart and rearrange them into as many as thirty smaller flower arrangements, which are then distributed to twelve different care homes throughout the island. Read the full article on The Bermudian.
Photograph by Brandon Morrison
Garden Club of Bermuda Awards $48,500 in Community Grants
The Garden Club of Bermuda is proud to announce its 2025–2026 community donations, distributing $48,500 across six local organizations that share the Club’s commitment to environmental stewardship, sustainability, and community wellbeing.
This year’s recipients are the Bermuda National Trust, Focus Counselling Services, Warwick Academy, BEST, BioQuest, and Waterstart. Together they represent the full breadth of conservation and sustainability work happening across the island — from mapping the genome of the Bermuda cedar tree, to youth eco education, to garden-based rehabilitation programmes and food security initiatives.
The Garden Club is proud to champion these outstanding organisations and wishes them continued success in their important work.
Pictured from left: Diana Chiappa, president of the Garden Club of Bermuda, left, with Dorte Horsfield, Head of Development and Engagement at the Bermuda National Trust; JP Skinner, director at Waterstart; Francoise Palau-Wolffe, librarian at Warwick Academy; Jennifer Flood of BEST; and Jane Clipper of the Garden Club
The Garden Club of Bermuda / Garden Club of America
The GCB is affiliated with the Garden Club of America who have highlighted us in their Winter 2025 issue of “The Bulletin”.
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