Community service What we tend
We do more than garden — we cultivate community.
Most of what the club does happens outside our meetings — in the town's gardens, the elementary schools, and the senior center.
The Lightkeepers Cottage Garden on Government Island has been created and maintained by this club since 1993. It is our largest ongoing commitment and our most visible one.
Lightkeepers CottageThe Cohasset Historical Society garden, the POW Garden on the island at North Main Street, and seasonal plantings around town, including Memorial Day.
Town beautificationChildren in grades 3 through 5 at Deer Hill Elementary School plant seeds and bulbs in pots and in the school courtyard, learn how to make our gardens pollination friendly, and create nature-related arts and crafts projects.
Junior GardenersDesign sessions at Willcutt Commons, 91 Sohier Street. Everyone takes an arrangement home. Registration is through the Senior Center.
Senior floral designFloral design is a serious craft in this Club, and these are where our members show it.
Art in Bloom. Each spring our designers travel to the Museum of Fine Arts for Art in Bloom, creating arrangements interpreting works of art in the collection.
Books in Bloom. Every other year the Club invites its members to interpret a favorite book at the Paul Pratt Library.
Floral Design CompetitionBegun in 2020, during the pandemic, to keep the Club visible and lift spirits when there was little else going on, the Bike is replanted multiple times during our garden club season and moved around town. It has long outlasted the circumstances that created it.
The Traveling BikeCommunity Garden Club of Cohasset Academic Award
The club awards academic prizes to graduating Cohasset High School seniors continuing their education, in any major — $5,000 to four students in 2026. Applicants submit a transcript, a list of work and volunteer history and activities, and a short essay.
Special consideration goes to students interested in horticulture or environmental studies. Financial need, good citizenship and service to the community are all weighed. Deadlines are set by the CHS Guidance Department — please check with them.
Stay in the knowThe newsletter
Nine issues a year, plus a summer edition — the month's calendar, what the committees are up to, and photographs from what we've just done. Open meetings and Plant Sale dates land here first.
Back issues live in the member room.