Roswell Garden Club activities support the mission of the National Garden Clubs – to provide education, resources, and national networking opportunities for its members to promote the love of gardening, floral design, and civic and environmental responsibility.

RGC projects focus on beautifying Roswell, conserving landscaping at many of Roswell’s historic sites, promoting the love of gardening, and educating our members and the community. 

Our 2020-2021 focus projects continually evolve due to COVID-19. We’ve been able to fit in a select few in-person activities, we’ve amped-up our online educational resources, and we’ve created new opportunities for club and community learning.

In November, we planted themed raised-bed gardens for public mini-lessons at Roswell’s Adult Recreation Center. The beds are outdoors, so they are ideal for social-distanced horticulture talks which can be filmed and added to our educational blog. We also decorated Smith with beautiful floral mannequins for the holidays.

We amped-up our on-line educational resources by adding an education page to our site. The page is filled with links to resources from National Garden Clubs, The Garden Club of Georgia, and other affiliated organizations. The education page also has a search bar for our blog and a comprehensive list of great non-fiction and fiction.

Our educational & inspirational blog is rapidly evolving and growing. The blog, which is searchable, has a variety of educational posts ranging from horticulture to the environment and floral design to do-it-yourself projects. During Garden Week in Georgia and National Garden Week, we post relevant new blog entries at 10 pm each day. The posts are designed to intrigue, give you some easy ways to get into gardening, and inspire.

While visiting our blog, be sure and check out the top three entries from the 2020 High-School Environmental Blog Competition. You can find last year’s entries on our blog page along with all of our other entries.

In May we plan to dedicate our newly installed Blue Star and Gold Star Memorial Markers. The Blue Star and Gold Star Memorials are a National Garden Clubs project.

From floral design to azalea giveaways; decorating City Hall to youth-centered activities such as Fall Farm Days; gardening at civic locations to field trips to experience the beauty of nature; RGC is on the go making a difference in the community.

RGC’s collaborative relationship with the Roswell Recreation & Parks department, Roswell Adult Recreation Center, Roswell Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Roswell’s historic homes—Archibald Smith, Barrington Hall, and Mimosa Hall—is strong.

Our members enjoy making Roswell a beautiful place and are proud of our civic projects.  We strive to live our motto—Roswell, ours to beautify and conserve.