Milton Garden Club announces local scholarships available

The Milton Garden Club is known for its beautiful wreaths, downtown planters and gardens, and famous dessert of the month raffle, but it also awards scholarships to students pursuing post secondary education.  

This year the garden club will be awarding two scholarships worth $3,000 each. One will be for graduating high school seniors pursuing post-secondary education and legal resident of Sussex County. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to the study of landscape and ornamental horticulture; plant science including sustainable landscapes, production horticulture, plant pathology, plant biology and genetics, soils and environmental quality; landscape design and architecture; agribusiness marketing and management or another similar related field.

The second scholarship is for full-time students attending colleges or universities in the State of Delaware, including University of Delaware, Delaware State University and Delaware Technical Community College. Applicants must be returning sophomore, junior or seniors enrolled full-time in a college or university in the State of Delaware studying in the field of agriculture and natural resources. They must also be legal residents of Sussex County, Delaware.

Applicants will be judged based on financial need, scholastic achievement, and community service, leadership and activities in and out of school. Applications for high school students are due April 30 and April 15 for returning college students.

For an application go to www.themiltongardenclub.org or email scholarship chair Carol Mertes-Smith at cmertess@comcast.net.