Sands Point Garden Club: Program Photos

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2025 June Tasting Event for Students at the Helen Keller National Center

Garden Club members prepared a "food tasting menu" for the student residents at HKNC, using herbs that can be found in the sensory garden. The tasting was followed by a tour of the plantings, so the students can enjoy visiting the garden on their own.

2025 June Meeting - Sharing plants and life stories at the HKNC Sensory Garden

At this meeting members shared plant cuttings and roots, as well as a few short life bio stories.

2025 May Meeting - TNH Composting Program

2025 April Meeting - Presentation by ReWild Long Island

2025 April - Earth Day Tree Planting at Village Hall

The Sands Point Garden Club celebrated Arbor Day by planting a tree at the Village Hall. Pictured above is a group of members with SP Mayor, Peter Forman. The tree, an "Autumn Brilliance" serviceberry (Amelanchier grandiflora) is known for its vibrant fall color, usually a mix of orange and red, with some yellow and pink. It also offers multi-season interest with white spring blooms, sweet, purplish-black fruit in summer, and a rounded canopy with attractive bark. It is resistant to common plant diseases, attracts birds, butterflies, and pollinators with its flowers and fruit.

2025 March - Installation of New Officers

New officers 2025-2026

New president, Fern Cohen

2024 December - Annual Holiday Luncheon at the Village Club of Sands Point

2024 November - All About Orchids

2024 October - Annual Joint Meeting with the Port Washington Garden Club

Program - Floral demonstration by local designer Kate Walz

Centerpiece by members

Lunch and desserts by members

2024 - SPGC Supports the Shakespeare Garden at the High School

Garden Club President Lynn Sirow presents a check to John Scaglione and Zayd Pattie in support of the Shakespeare Garden at Schreiber High School.

2024 - Arbor Day Tree Planting at Sands Point Village Hall

In April, members of the Sands Point Garden Club planted a native Black Gum tree (Nyssa Sylvia) at the Sands Point Village Hall, to honor the National Arbor Day Foundation’s designation of Sands Point as a “Tree City USA.” Pictured, left to right: Garden club President Lynn Sirow, Claudia Rouhana, Edie Katz, Sands Point Mayor Peter Forman, Laura Bollet, Fern Cohen, Jenny Bollet-Trompeter, Carol Krieger.

2024 - Trip to New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show

Lovely day trip to the NYBG Orchid Show! (photo composition by Robin Ziegelbaum)

2023 - Annual Holiday Luncheon at the Village Club of Sands Point

2023 - Shakespeare Garden. SPGC members presented Schreiber High School senior John Scaglione with a check to support his work on the Shakespeare Garden at the high school.

SPGC members with John Scaglione

2023 - Annual Scholarship Award. SPGC member Edith Katz presented Schreiber High School senior Lara Janoff with a check and certificate at the award ceremony on June 14.

Edith Katz and scholarship winner Lara Janoff

2023 - Herb Tasting Event at the Helen Keller National Center. SPGC members offered tasty hors d'oeuvres and desserts to the HKNC students and gave a tour of the sensory garden, demonstrating how the herbs can be used in cooking.

2023 - Celebrating Arbor Day by distributing redbud tree saplings at the Village Hall.
Sands Point has been designated as a Tree City USA.

2022 - Holiday Luncheon at the Village Club

2022 - Clean-up and planting new herbs at the Helen Keller Sensory Garden

2021 - The Sands Point Garden Club planted a new crepe myrtle tree at the Sands Point Village Hall to commemorate the village becoming an official "Tree City USA," Arbor Day, April 30, 2021.