A space of beauty and rest.

The Plantsville UCC Memorial Garden invites everyone to come sit and enjoy the sanctity and beauty of the garden. (We request that you do not bring your pets.)

The Memorial Garden was formally established in 2001. Those memorialized include:

  • Julie Anne Fortin: pink weeping cherry tree and surrounding flower bed, bench

  • Chris Bicknell: white weeping cherry tree and surrounding flower bed, bench, fence entry gate

  • Christopher Koenig: Chris’s Corner (two azalea bushes—one pink, one red—Chinese dogwood tree, and plaque)

  • Josh Cunliffe: Josh’s Corner (upright evergreen bush, perennials, and plaque)

  • Ruth and Russell Stone: hydrangea bush, ground phlox, and columbine flower

  • Elaine Lathrop: Whamister broom bush

  • Gail Kriebel: Wisteria vine

  • Heather Lindsay Mosher: bench, purple flowers (ajuga, ground phlox, lavender plants, dwarf nepeta)

The garden is funded by Memorial Brick sales (every other year), bake sales (off years), and pansy sales. If you would like to donate to support the Memorial Garden, click here to go to our PayPal donation page. Please write “Memorial Garden Fund” in the “notes” section on the donation confirmation page (the second page).

The Memorial Garden is the culmination of many people’s hard work. Thank you to:

  • Wendy Fortin and Ginny Bicknell for founding the Memorial Garden.

  • Everyone who has been a member of the Board and/or volunteered to take care of the garden.

  • Mark Naylor for pouring the concrete slabs for the “Julie” and “Chris B.” benches in 2001.

  • Glenn Fortin, Wendy Fortin, and Butch Mattson for installing the memorial brick walkway in 2001.

  • Butch Mattson, Marcel Duprey, and John Forster for installing the underground waterline to the garden in 2003.

  • Everyone who donated to the Fence Fundraiser, and Bill Hammick and his son, who created the plaque honoring these people, in 2004.

 Download the complete history, written by garden co-founder Wendy Fortin, here.