The Greater New Bedford Garden Club is offering two $1,500 scholarships to residents of the Greater New Bedford area who are high school seniors graduating in June and who are planning to attend a four year college to pursue a degree in horticulture, landscape design or agriculture, forestry, conservation or environmental science.

Scholarship applications are available for high school seniors in the guidances offices of Old Rochester and Old Colony high schools.

The deadline for applications is April 23. All paperwork must be postmarked by that date.

The goals of The Greater New Bedford Garden Club are to offer educational and inspirational programs and to encourage the advancement of gardening, flower arranging, horticulture and the beautification of the community and the conservation of natural resources.

Scholarships are given out each year as a way to encourage and support these objectives.

For more information, email virginiasheehan427@comcast.net.