Annual Plant Sale
The annual plant sale is a fundraiser which takes place each spring.  Many varieties of mostly native plants are donated for the sale by members from their gardens, as well as gently used garden-related items.  A well-received feature at the sale offers children the opportunity to pot up a flowering plant to take home at no charge.

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Beardsley Zoological Gardens
Each year the Club purchases passes to the Beardsley Zoological Gardens and provides them to the library.  The passes, which enable free admission, may be checked out by patrons the same as books.  

 

Book Donations to Schools 
Each year the club donates books to the six elementary schools in Trumbull.  We endeavor to select books following the Club and the Federation’s theme for the year based upon assorted topics such as gardening, flowers, plants, the environment, insects and animals. 

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Boothe Homestead  
Club members, as well as other civic organizations, trim holiday trees at the Boothe Homestead’s annual Holiday event. Staffed by the Friends of Boothe Park, during the holiday season it is decorated in holiday splendor and open to the public to view the decorated rooms and bid on the holiday trees.   
 
Earth Day Event 
LHGC has joined Trumbull Nature & Arts Center’s Annual Family Earth Day Celebration. Club volunteers share club membership information, gardening education, as well as give away free companion flower seedlings, seeds donated by UCONN Extension, and houseplant cuttings donated by members. There is also a very popular all-ages nature craft table.

 

ELITE – Educating Learners in Transition Environments
Club members on the ELITE Committee lead garden-related activities with 18–22-year-old students identified through the special education process.  These students need additional support in the areas of vocational readiness and life skills development.  Club volunteers meet two days a month with small groups of students and choose activities to help participants strengthen their daily living skills.  

 

Healing, Therapy and Senior Gardening 
Garden Therapy is the application of garden-related activities as an aid to the recovery and rehabilitation of challenged individuals.  During the club year committee members meet monthly with 10 residents at Wesley Heights, an assisted living community, and lead various horticulture and floral-related activities.

 

Horticulture
Horticulture is the cultivation of all manner of plants.  Members are urged to exhibit their horticulture specimens at monthly meetings.  Related activities are planned such as demonstrations, workshops and field trips.  Members are encouraged to attend the NGC schools offered by the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut and to exhibit horticulture at the annual Connecticut Flower Show in Hartford

 

Indoor Plants – Trumbull Library
The many indoor plants decorating the Trumbull Library are donated and maintained by club members.  The plants enhance the library for patrons and staff alike.

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Monarch Waystations
Two certified Monarch butterfly waystations were established by the club. One is located at the Trumbull Nature and Arts Center and another at Old Mine Park, with the hope of expanding to other areas in the future.  The objective is to restore butterfly habitats that are disappearing due to development and pesticide use. 

 
Nature Nook at the Library
A section of the children’s room at the library has been set aside for the club which turned it into a “Nature Nook” – an area designed to interest and educate children about gardening and the natural world.  Club volunteers select new topics each quarter and change the display monthly.  The Nook includes a display with information, posters and activity sheets for children.  A fish tank provided might contain things to touch and feel, a diorama, or even living creatures.  We have raised Monarch butterflies from caterpillars and leopard frogs from tadpoles.

 

Osborne Homestead Museum
For the past nine years, an enthusiastic and dedicated group of volunteers participated in the Holiday Showcase at the historic Osborne Homestead Museum.  Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Osborne Homestead is bedecked for the holidays each year.  The rooms are randomly assigned by the Museum to area garden clubs and civic groups that decorate each room according to a selected theme.

 

Programs for the Public
Seven educational programs are planned for monthly meetings which are open to the public.

 

Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness is an altruistic project based upon a global initiative with a goal of making strangers happy with a gift of flowers.  Club members create bouquets, wrap them in cellophane, tie them with colorful ribbons and attach a tag which reads ‒ “A small bouquet to brighten your day!  Compliments of the Long Hill Garden Club.”  The bouquets are then randomly distributed to recipients throughout the community. 

 

Scholarship
The Long Hill Garden Club provides an annual donation to the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut’s annual scholarship fund.  Any student who is entering their junior or senior year of college or is a graduate student at an accredited college or university, and is a legal resident of Connecticut majoring in agronomy, botany, city planning, conservation, environmental studies, floriculture, forestry, horticulture, land management, landscape design, plant pathology, or an allied subject, is eligible.  Students must have at least a 3.0 grade average and demonstrate financial need. 

Twin Brooks Park Project
The club teamed up with the town of Trumbull to establish a mixed border of native pollinator plants at Twin Brooks Park, adjacent to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Garden.  Members joined forces with the Parks Department in the selection, installation and mulching of the plants.