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Lady Slipper Adventure!

Welcome!Welcome!Organized in 1961, Randolph Area Garden Club is a member of the Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont, New England Region, and National Garden Clubs, Inc. There are currently 44 members. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month, Spring through December. Guests are welcome at monthly meetings at no charge and at workshops with the materials fee. Annual dues for membership are payable by the July fiscal meeting.

The club supports individual gardening interests and fellowship as well as civic beautification through garden design and maintenance in public areas of the town. Educational support is in the form of the club’s Randolph Garden Club Scholarship, awarded annually to a Vermont resident enrolled full-time in the Landscape and Ornamental Horticulture program at Vermont Technical College, with a minimum GPA of 2.8.


Officers
​President: Lori Peirce, Marda Donner
Vice President: Karen Bird, Donna O'Neill
Treasurer: Ellen Shepherd, Marda Donner, Alice Wakefield
Secretary: Joan Miles, Wendy Ross

New Members Always Welcome!
New Membership Contact – [email protected]

In early June, Ray Bisson led members of Randolph Garden Club through the wild lady slipper fens on his property. Good wet boots were needed, but we had a wonderful time! The fens contain the largest population anywhere of the rare Cypripedium reginae, forma albolabium, the white form of the showy pink lady’s slipper. Ray and Joyce (1946-2019) have willed more than half of their 74-acre East Street property to two organizations—The Nature Conservancy of Vermont and the New England Wild Flower Society. Joyce loved leading the lady slipper tours. "Oh my gosh, I kidnap people,” she once joked.

​Read more here: https://www.ourherald.com/articles/beautiful-and-rare-showy-ladys-slippers-of-brookfield/. Photos: Kit Hood