The Portsmouth Garden Club offers two types of grants to gardeners in the Seacoast area: Pollinator Grants and Community Grants

To support the effort of establishing pollinator-friendly habitats and food sources for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinating insects and wildlife, we offer grants for homeowners in the Seacoast area who want to support pollinators by changing their existing gardens or establishing a new garden with native plants and eliminating the use of pesticides.If we begin to manage our own yards organically and with native plantings, we can use them to connect parks and preserves, and other yards creating crucial corridors for wildlife and helping stem the sharp decline in bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. 

Thanks to all our 2026 Grant recipients for working to make our community a better place

• Portsmouth homeowner - to help fund the first year of a multi-year project converting a section of lawn to a wildflower edge.

•  Friends of Bicentennial Park – to support native bees and butterflies and help migrating Monarch butterflies. 

• Gather - helping support their two community gardens that focus on volunteer engagement and produce food which is donated to community members in need.

• Newfields Garden Club - to help create a children’s garden, in line with the club’s mission of focusing on education. 

• Portsmouth Community Campus - for the third phase of the renovation of the Wilder garden that includes planting shrubs and perennials.

• Portsmouth Senior Activity Center –for planting the garden beds at the front entrance with pollinator-friendly plants.

• South Mill Pond Bridge – funds towards the annual flower box plantings on the Harold Whitney Whitehouse bridge.

• Star Island Corporation – to plant native species that will create habitat for pollinators and migrating birds in a breakwater restoration project and at a solar array field.

• Seacoast Science Center -towards efforts to build a kitchen garden,  including culinary herbs in the fashion of a colonial garden as well as their adjacent pollinator garden.

•   Warner House -  in addition to the many hours spent maintaining and enhancing the Warner House  gardens by the dedicated  club volunteers, funds to install an irrigation system 

In addition, an endowment fund in memory of former Club President Ruth Nelson, was established in 1988 providing yearly financial support for the Thomas Bailey Aldrich House Gardens at Strawberry Banke. 

Applications for 2027 Grants open on February 1st.