LAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB
- Is the first member club of The Garden Club of America to apply, and to be invited to exhibit a show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
- Founded in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1912. In 1913 was a founding member of The Garden Club of America; and in 1927, a founding member of the Garden Club of Illinois.
- Objective is the advancement of gardening, promotion of horticultural knowledge, and the stimulation of community interest in conservation and civic planting.
- Membership today is 150. Active members must reside in Lake Forest and are expected to work in their own gardens, to demonstrate a real interest in the Club's purposes, and to work with intent on club projects and committees.
- The club meets at least ten times a year. Programs include floral and horticulture lectures and demonstrations, garden history and design, conservation and environmental education, civic beautification, etc.
- LFGC is a not-for-profit organization, operating as a charitable undertaking. Funds raised by a bi-annual house walk benefit, are given back to the community in a variety of ways, including; public landscaping, community gardens, horticultural internships, library books, and shoreline conservation, restoration, and recreational development.
- Recent projects include:
- 2007: Ryerson Woods Gateways to Nature Program and local artists' painting and drawing exhibit "Drawn to Nature."
Openlands Project - Green Teacher Network
Chicago Botanic Garden - Rice Plant Conservation Science Center
- 2006: Organized and sponsored with five other area Garden Club of America Clubs, a public symposium in April on global warming, which addressed global climate change as it relates to business, globalization, politics, science, oceans, health, and education.
- 1997-2000: Historic Market Square restoration - public/private partnership with the City of Lake Forest to restore hardscape and landscape of first planned shopping district in US.
- 1986-1988: Forest Park Beach restoration on shore of Lake Michigan, one of the five great lakes on the Canadian-United States border. Included shoreline conservation, restoration, recreational development, landscape design and planting.
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