Garden club members gathered for conversation and crafting, producing these charming paper flowers destined for the dining room tables of New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester.

For more than 20 years, the Amherst Garden Club has been bringing flowers to New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester to brighten their dining tables. This month we thank Julie Hoag and Sally Hooper for delivering and arranging these head-turning paper flowers, designed and crafted by our talented members.

For more than 20 years, the Amherst Garden Club has been bringing flowers to New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester to brighten their dining tables. This month we thank Julie Hoag and Wendy Reed for putting together these adorable centerpieces that bridge the seasons.

This month the garden club crafted whimsical “pinwheel flowers” and delivered them to New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester to brighten their dining tables. Thank you to the talented club members who created these delightful flowers, and to Barbara Warman and her sister who delivered them, with help from the committee chair.

For December, flower “elves” Deb Curran and Nancy Head assembled twelve beautiful bouquets for the dining tables at New Horizons Soup Kitchen. These red and white arrangements will look perfect on the new white tablecloths that the soup kitchen has for Christmas. Thank you, ladies!

The paper flowers so lovingly created last month have made their way to the New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester. Thank you again to the club members who crafted these delightful flowers and to the volunteers who delivered them.

What better way to spend a cold, rainy day than cozying up with fellow garden club members to craft beautiful paper flowers destined for the dining room tables at New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester. Beautiful job, ladies!

This month the felt flowers — lovingly crafted by garden club members — made their debut at New Horizons Soup Kitchen. Notice how well the colors go with the walls! Thank you to this month’s volunteers, Sally Hooper and Wendy Reed.

This month the Amherst Garden Club brought the beauty of the late summer garden indoors, decorating the dining tables at New Horizons Soup Kitchen with pillowy hydrangea flowers tinged with pink and arranged with complementary accent flowers and greenery. Thank you to this month’s volunteers, Nancy Hokinson and Fran Kelly.

One of the ways the garden club gives back to the community is by delivering either fresh or handmade flowers to the Manchester New Horizons Soup Kitchen each month. Club members arrange the flowers on the dining tables to brighten the atmosphere for the many people served meals there.

Yesterday, garden club members gathered at the library with scissors in hand to make the beautiful felt flowers you see below. Thanks once again to workshop organizers Dawn Burke, Diane Merrithew, and Joan Poltack, and to all the volunteers who helped make these lovely flowers.

(Photos courtesy Wendy Reed and Dawn Burke)