Garden Therapy

Garden club members share their interests and abilities in floral design and horticulture with others. 

Throughout the RIFGC, our garden clubs are reaching out to help bring joy to others through gardening and flower arranging.  Sometimes, clubs work with school children, camps and centers for sick or handicapped children, youth, the elderly, and those who are homebound, reside in assisted living facilities, and people who are hospitalized.  Our members try to improve their communities through outreaching.  The joy given and received is priceless.  We do make a big difference in a variety of ways.

At the present time, RIFGC clubs: 
      * Visit patients in nursing homes bringing plants and/or flower arrangements.
      * Visit Hasbro Childrens’ Hospital and camp for sick children.
      * Plant bulbs in containers and gardens with anticipation of flowers to come 
         later as well as the enjoyment at the time of planting.
      * Hold house-plant clinics. 
      * Plant flower boxes with flowers in spring and evergreen displays in winter.
      * Hold greens workshops with arrangements given to people in nursing homes, 
         assisted living facilities, Veterans’ Hospitals, homebound persons, etc.
      * Make centerpieces with others for their own tables.
      * Make small seasonal arrangements with others to bring back to their personal
         spaces.
      * Hold dried flower arranging.
      * Schedule craft programs.
      *  Teach the germination of seeds and do planting in pots. 
      * Make and deliver May Baskets.  

If you have additions to the above or suggestions for others, please let me know.