The Rocky Swale Project
St. George’s GC Supports Cylburn Arboretum Restoration Project

The city of Baltimore, Maryland, has an extensive and historic public park system. One of the most beautiful of these green spaces is the Cylburn Arboretum, with miles of walking paths through its collection of specimen trees. Built in 1863 as a summer house for a Baltimore industrialist, the Mansion House at Cylburn was identified by the Olmsted Brothers firm as an important potential parkland in their land-use review of the city in 1903. It was later designated as an historical and architectural preservation site and placed on the National Register in 1971.

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The Life and Career Changing Effects of a GCA Scholarship
2007 Anne S. Chatham Fellowship Recipient Dr. Cassandra Quave

Cassandra Quave, PhD, is a medical ethnobotanist and head of the interdisciplinary Quave Research Group at Emory University. She is also Emory’s herbarium curator and associate professor of Dermatology and Human Health. She is a scientist, professor, and mother with a passion for biodiversity and scientific discovery. Her recent book, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines, is part science, part memoir and has been garnering rave reviews and awards.

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2022 GCA Honorary Members Announced
Achievements in Horticulture, Ecology, Education, and Photography Celebrated

The Garden Club of America is pleased to announce that seven women and men of distinction have been named honorary members for 2022. Since 1916, the GCA has recognized the extraordinary achievements of more than 400 honorary members in the fields of horticulture or conservation, or whose knowledge and interests align with the GCA purposes. With appreciation for their achievements, the GCA welcomes the following new honorary members for 2022:

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2022 National GCA Medalists Announced
Highest Honors for Distinguished Achievements

The Garden Club of America has announced the recipients of the 2022 national medals, the highest honors bestowed upon individuals or institutions by the GCA for distinguished achievements in areas related to its purpose. With a long-standing tradition of celebrating extraordinary efforts to protect and beautify the planet, The Garden Club of America will present the medals at its 109th annual meeting in May. The Garden Club of America is pleased to honor the following 2022 medalists.

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Grants Aid Forest Preservation
GC of Princeton Supports the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve

The Garden Club of Princeton (GCP) recently secured two generous grants to help with an eighteen-acre forest restoration project at Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. The grants, $9,500 from the New Jersey Committee, an area committee of The Garden Club of America, and $2000 from Partners for Plants, will enable Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) to purchase plant material and aid forest restoration. GCP has partnered with FOPOS for decades and this effort is part of a larger collaborative project.

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Mill Mountain Wildflower Garden Rejuvenated
Mill Mountain GC Partners with the City of Roanoke

Set on a knoll atop of Mill Mountain, Roanoke, Virginia, visitors can find a newly-rejuvenated, award-winning wildflower garden featuring a cascading tiered pond, an educational outdoor classroom, fairy garden, pollinator garden, eastern and western mountain views, and abundant native plants, wildflowers, and trees. The garden is the result of a decades-long partnership between Mill Mountain Garden Club and the city of Roanoke.

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Lights Up! Kicking off the Holiday Season in Piedmont, CA
Piedmont GC Helps Decorate Eighty-foot Redwood Tree

For the last fifty-seven years, Piedmont Garden Club members have used 1,500 multi-colored tree lights strung on 16-gauge wire to kick off the holiday season. 2021 was no exception. On a bright November morning, PGC members gathered for the annual “Lights Up” event to unravel the strands of tree lights on the floor of Piedmont’s community center for inspection. Once tested and approved, the lights were rolled into manageable coils and ferried out to an eighty-foot, living redwood tree in the city’s central park.

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