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The objective of the Lake Forest Garden Club is the advancement of gardening, the promotion of horticultural knowledge, and the stimulation of community interest in conservation and civic planting. In 1912, twenty-five women living along the shore north of Chicago founded a garden club dedicated to horticulture and conservation. In 1921 it became known as The Lake Forest Garden Club....Read more
The purpose of The Garden Club of America is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment, through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement....Read more
Lake Forest Garden Club’s show garden “Ravine Garden: Gift of the Glacier” is part of the 2006 RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Who: Lake Forest Garden Club
Lake Forest, Illinois USA
What: First member club of The Garden Club of America to present a show
garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
When: Tuesday, May 23 – Saturday, May 28
Where: Site #MA-25, Main Avenue and Pavilion Way
Designer: Catharina Malmberg-Snodgrass of CMS Design Associates Ltd.
Contractor: Mark Gregory, Landform Consultants Ltd.
Intent: The ravine ecosystem found in the Great Lakes of North America inspired our garden of plants indigenous to the region. Formed by glacial retreat during the last ice age, ravines are a fragile legacy of past global warming and a reminder of the invaluable diversity of life on earth. Our garden is intended to inform and inspire the preservation and restoration of these natural treasures.
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