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Federated Garden Clubs of CT Awards 2024

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Club Certificate of Appreciation 

This award was given to Kim Ferraguto for her outstanding dedication and contributions to the Kensington Garden Club as Artistic Director.

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Federated Garden Clubs of CT Awards 2023

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Award of Excellence for a Large Club 

This award was given for our beautiful firehouse planters and annual plant sale. 

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Individual Citations for Memorial and Public Gardens was awarded to 9 club members: Lilia Kieltzha, Vicki Griswold, Evelyn Anderson, Diane Roncaioli, Lori Zisk, Elva Stregowski, Bette MacCarthy. Cyndi McKinnon, and Dorie Wojcik.

 

 

Certificate of Individual Achievement was awarded to 7 club members: Peggy LaJoie, Barbara Schweitzer, Bonnie McNair, Amanda Stern, Jane Skinner, Devi Patel, and Nancy Drain. 

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Federated Garden Clubs of CT Awards 2019 

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Lucille Schavoir Award - 2019

Considered the highest award in the state presented to a Garden Club, we were honored to receive the Lucille Schavoir Award, a silver bowl, for outstanding work during the year. This included a major project to install a butterfly garden at Volunteer Park and involved working with the Berlin Parks and Recreation, a local nursery and 6 students from Upbeat. The club is commended for bringing together many contributors and turning unused land into a beautiful way station for pollinators.

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Certificate of Individual Achievement was awarded to 3 club members: Bonnie M, Mary Ann M and Barbara S. They are recognized for their work planting and maintaining garden beds in patriotic colors of red, white and blue at the Worthington Ridge Soldiers Memorial. 

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First Place in the medium size category for our Newsletter.

 

Second Place for our printed Yearbook.

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Kensington Garden Club Awards $1,500 to the 2025 Scholarship Winner

 

Each year, the Kensington Garden Club presents a scholarship to a student interested in majoring in one of the following fields of study: agronomy, botany, conservation, forestry, environmental control, horticulture, landscape design, land management, or plant science and related fields. This year the club is proud to announce our scholarship winner is John Platt, a recent Berlin High School graduate. John has already shown his commitment to stewardship of the environment by becoming a “Leave No Trace” instructor and forming a Wilderness Club at Berlin High School. John was inspired by the research of Bill Mollison in self-sustainable, resilient agriculture known as permaculture. He lead a research team at the high school which will utilize similar horticultural techniques to enhance nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fixation;  thereby improving local soil conditions in an environmentally friendly way. John put his experience in greenhouse management and plant cultivation to practical use by partnering with a hospitality group to grow an array of plants needed for their business operation. Through these, and other endeavors, it is clear that John Platt is an outstanding leader, student and advocate for our environment. John will be attending Bowdoin College in Maine this fall, where he will continue his studies in biology with a concentration in conservation.The Kensington Garden Club congratulates John on receiving our $1,500 scholarship, and wishes him the best in his future studies.

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