The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. | Projects and Programs

National Garden Club Projects

Planting for Public and Special Places
Plantings for Public and Special Places is a 2011-2013 President's Project. Representing three areas of interest, Gardens with Edibles, Container Gardens, Trees and Shrubs, this project recognizes all garden club service to communities when members provide Plantings for Public and Special Places. These plantings can beautify, have environmental value or provide sustenance. Visit this page on the NGC website for more details.

Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems
Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems is one of NGC's Special Projects for 2011-2013. This project recognizes that it is of utmost importance and urgency that members of National Garden Clubs, Inc., identify and address critical water issues at local, state, regional, national and international levels because Water equals Life. Read more on this NGC page.

Penny Pines Program
NGC and the USDA Forest Service are proud to have formed a "Penny Pines Program" partnership sustaining our national and urban forests through this reforestation/forest education program. Your garden club can participate by contributing $68 to a Penny Pine plantation as part of the costs of replanting replacement trees and/or trees indigenous (Not Just Pine Trees) to a particular damaged area, whether by fire or by other natural catastrophe. You may designate a specific State you wish to have benefit from this contribution.
Checks should be made out to the Garden Club of Georgia and donations mailed to Georgia State Chairman Willie Mae McDaniel, 4189 Chapel Lake Drive, Decatur GA 30034. Contact Willie Mae by email, or for further details see this page.

Plant It Pink for Susan G. Komen for the Cure
National Garden Clubs Inc. and Susan G. Komen for the Cure announce "Plant It Pink," a multi-faceted initiative designed to support Susan G. Komen for the Cure's mission to save lives and end breast cancer forever.

NGC continues to promote awareness of breast cancer issues and encourages our members to plant areas of pink flowers in our public landscapes, at hospitals, cancer centers and other sites, in order to raise public consciousness.

State Chairman Vivian Toney will coordinate efforts on this project, to plant pink flowers everywhere to bring attention to the cause. The little pink birdhouse is being sold to raise money for the fund. Donations are encouraged and will be rewarded with a complimentary packet of pink dianthus seeds from W. Atlee Burpee & Co. See Plant It Pink for more details.