Our Civic Projects
Our club continues to work on numerous civic projects. Some examples of our projects are:   Maintaining the Lillian Dutton Memorial Herb Garden at the Job Lane Farm Museum (photo below). (This year we replaced 7 new rails for the fence.)   Planting, watering, mulching, and maintaining the Town Triangles and Curves: Brooksbie/Great Road (corner and small island); Burlington/Old Billerica Road; Dunster/Page Road; Chelmsford/North Road; Page/Old Billerica Road; Shawsheen/Page Road; Springs/Hillside Road; Springs/Pine Hill Road; the Shawsheen Road Daylily Garden; Old Town Hall planters and side gardens; Loomis/Webber Avenue; South Road/Railroad Avenue Corner; Watering Trough; and the Bedford Library.   Donating trees to Bedford first graders each year on Arbor Day.   Participating in Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.   Awarding scholarship to Bedford student (The 2011 $1,000 scholarship was awarded to Gabrielle Queenan).   Providing a floral arrangement for Scholarship Awards Night.   Working on a project at the VA Hospital.   Projects we have done in the past include planting at Ashby Place (Elderly Housing); working with John Glenn Middle School students planting bulbs; participating in the Carleton Willard Art in Bloom program; providing guidance to the children at Lt. Job Lane School for the Lt. Job Lane Children's Garden (where we also donated three granite benches, a large planter, and an arbor); and planting containers at the Council on Aging. One year we participated in the Job Lane Farm Museum's Holiday Open House. Garden Club members decorated the kitchen.  In the spring of 2006 we joined area garden clubs to work on a project at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veteran's Hospital in Bedford. In the summer of 2006 we donated a bench to the Library.  In November 2009 we donated an 8-foot bench and installed it at the bus stop on South Road across from the Old Town Hall.
In 2011 The Bedford Garden Club awarded our $1000 scholarship to Gabrielle Queenan, who plans to study Environment Science.	Barbara Kupfrian, Barbara O'Neil, and Claire Higson presented first-graders at Davis School a tree seedling to plant after talking about the history of Arbor Day and the importance of trees to people around the world. They concluded with a discussion on how to plant the trees.
This photo is of the Lillian Dutton Memorial Herb Garden at the Job Lane Farm Museum. As one of our civic projects, and in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the herb garden, we had a new fence installed in July 2003. In May 2010 we replaced 7 rails.	This is the bench we donated to the library in 2006.
This is one of the corners we maintain in Bedford. It is located at South Road and Railroad Avenue.	This is the bench we donated to the town. It was installed in November 2009 at the bus stop on South Road opposite the Old Town Hall.