Lyme Garden Club will host a celebration to dedicate the gardens at the new Lyme Town Campus Center this Sunday, Aug. 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Library. All are welcome to attend the dedication ceremony at which members of the Garden Club will provide refreshments.
The event will honor those individuals and groups who donated financially to the project as well as to those businesses who provided materials and labor. Plaques will be presented to the town to be hung in the library and town hall, honoring the donors.
More than two years ago, the Lyme Garden Club began planning for the landscaping of the new Lyme Town Campus Center. A group of 10 garden club volunteers formed a working committee and hired landscape architect Sarah McCracken to oversee the design project.
Phase one of the project was implemented in fall, 2014 with the planting of 16 native trees on the green and the meadow areas, the planting of several shrubs, and the addition of daffodils at the library and town hall; the town green and meadow areas were also hydroseeded.
In spring, phase two began with planting more extensive gardens at the town hall and the library, adding many shrubs and plants. In early summer, two herb gardens were planted in front of the library in recognition of Betty Cleghorn, who designed the original herb gardens near the former library.
Although the grass and meadow areas of the campus are still works in progress, the implementation of the landscaping of the buildings is elegant. Phase three will continue in the fall with planting more daffodils and re-seeding the meadow and grass areas.