No matter where you live, there's a garden for you!
The National Garden Club's "Plant America" initiative focuses on encouraging gardens and gardening. Protecting the environment is one of the most important responsibilities of our society today, and gardening is an easy, immediate way to contribute. Our future depends on the impact we make today.
Growing our own gardens can improve our physical and mental health. Because plants take in carbon dioxide and put out oxygen, they are key to our wellbeing. Gardens can also provide emotional solace for individuals going through a healing process, and sense stimulation for the hearing or visually impaired.
A multifaceted hobby, gardening provides immediate benefits, as well. By attending to their gardens, gardeners get exercise and vitamin D. If they grow herbs or produce, they can sleep soundly knowing exactly where their food came from. Beginning a garden requires a small investment of time and money, which one can quickly make back from selling surplus at Farmer's Markets and passing up produce at the grocery store.
National Garden Club encourages our members to educate others on the benefits of gardening and to make gardening a community focus.
Gardening Committees
Container Gardening
Chairman: Mary Ann Moreno
Community Gardens
Chairman: Debi Harrington
Edible Gardening
Chairman: Bud Qualk
Habitat for Humanity Landscaping
Chairman: Marilyn McIntosh
Gardening Indoors
Chairman: Jennifer Moreno
Organic Garden Practices
Chairman: Barbara Shepard
Healing Gardens for Hope and Awareness
Chairman: Carcille Burchette
Pollinator Gardens
Chairman: Rene McCoy
Roadside/Public Plantings
Chairman: Vickie Godwin
Sustainable Gardening
Chairman: Sarah McReynolds
Therapy Gardening
Chairman: Peggy Tucker
Urban Gardening
Chairman: Sandra Ford
Wildflowers and Native Plants Gardening
Chairman: Doris Jackson
Wildlife Gardening
Chairman: Becky Hassebroek
Xeriscape Gardening
Chairman: Doris Duckworth