The Garden Club of Houston

1989 Natalie Peters Webster Medal

For its outstanding achievement in establishing a yearly Bulb and Plant Mart in 1942. Thus making available to the public these past 47 years, numerous species and cultivars of ornamental plants suitable for the gulf coast area; for educating the publlic to their use, and for promoting the availability of varieties of native plants whose culture should be encouraged.

The Natalie Peters Webster medal is awarded to a GCA club or club member who nurtures and advances the purpose of the GCA through distinguished achievements in horticulture. This award will remain eligible for GCA club members and member clubs.

First awarded in 1980, the Natalie Peters Webster Medal was endowed the same year by the family and friends of Natalie Peters Webster (Mrs. Charles D. Webster: 1909–79), South Side Garden Club of L.I., Zone III, and president of The Garden Club of America (1959–62). Natalie was an eminent horticulturist and, with her husband Charles, she was a 1959 recipient of the GCA Achievement Medal for skill and dedication to the field.

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