The Lyme Garden Club has earned accolades for landscaping the new Town Campus Center on Hamburg Road.

The club won the Virginia F. Thurston Landscape Design award from the New England Region of the National Garden Clubs and the Lucille Schavoir Award from the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc.

The Lyme Garden Club Town Campus Committee landscaped the new library, the renovated Town Hall, and new Town Green with plans developed by local landscape architect Sarah McCracken.

Mary Ann Kistner, the chairwoman of the committee, and project coordinator William Denow earned a certificate of individual achievement for "two years of monthly and then daily overseeing of the planning, meetings, purchasing, physical efforts and worrying necessary for the massive scope of the Club's involvement with the new Town Library grounds. They are honored for their dedication to their community and to their garden club."

The project, which began in fall 2014, was a collaboration between the garden club and the town.

Lyme Town and local landscaping crews planted trees and shrubs; committee members and volunteers from High Hopes planted daffodil bulbs; and a fundraising campaign brought in donations from individuals, organizations and businesses.

A plaque at Town Hall lists all the contributors to the project.

The founding donors were the Lyme Garden Club, Lyme Public Hall Association, and a bequest from Clemens Herschel in memory of his wife, Charlotte Ann Herschel.

The project included planting native trees, shrubs, daffodils and other plants. It also included two herb gardens near the entrance of the library in honor of Betty Cleghorn, who had designed the original library's herb garden.