CIVIC SITES
Community Stewardship Chair: Rosario Benavides-Gallagher





The Little Garden Club of Rye members are actively involved in the beautification of the city of Rye. Ongoing civic projects include the Native Plant Garden at the Rye Nature Center, the Rock Ridge triangle garden, the 911 Memorial Gazebo, the Post Office,the Rye Train Station, and the Knapp House herb garden.



The Rye Nature Center
NATIVE PLANT GARDEN


The garden was established by the Little Garden Club of Rye in 1988, as a wildflower garden of mostly native plants.
In 2004, under the design leadership of club member Kathy Barnard, the garden was significantly renovated both physically and conceptually. A second front bed was added doubling the size of the display. Non-native species were removed and a broader range of plants, all native to northeastern America, were installed. These included trees, shrubs and groundcovers in addition to new perennials.
The purpose of the garden is to showcase a wide variety of native plants in order to educate the public about their beauty and functional, aesthetic, and ecological virtues thereby encouraging their use in other spaCES.

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The Knapp House



The LIttle Garden Club designed and installed an herb garden off the kitchen of the knapp house. herbs that would have been used for cooking and medicinal purposes when the house was built are featured.


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Rock Ridge Triangle



After rescuing this historic trough from the dump, it was placed in the rock ridge triangle and became the centerpiece of the Rock Ridge Triangle garden.


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The Train Station


In 1969, when Rye had been intersected by new state and federal highways, it was increasingly cleaR THAT THE HEAVY TRAFFIC WAS CAUSING THE RAILROAD STATION TO FALL INTO DISREPAIR. aT THAT TIME, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WOULD NOT ALLOW FOR REMOVAL OF ASPHALT FOR PLANTING ISLANDS, SO THE lITTLE gARDEN cLUB BOUgHT PLANTERS AND FILLED THEM WITH TREES AND FLOWERS TO ENHANCE THIS GATEWAY TO rYE.
mANY OF THOSE PLNATERS CONTINUE TO BE IN EVIDENCE AT THE STATION today AND A LOYAL CADRE OF MEMBERS HAS LOVINGLY MAINTAINED THE TRADITION.

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Rye Post Office


The garden club maintains the planters at the post office,


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Rye Free Reading Room



We team up with the Rye Garden Club to decorate the library for the holidays.



911 Memorial Gazebo



The garden around the Memorial gazebo was designed and planted by the little garden club.



Community Gardens Booklet


The history and care of the LGC of Rye's
community Gardens



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Contact us at

LittleGardenClubofRye@gmail.com

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Little Garden Club of Rye, PO Box 58, Rye, NY 10580