Lake Forest Garden Club on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Lake Forest Garden Club
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last updated: February 2022

The Lake Forest Garden Club was founded in 1912 by a handful of forward-thinking women as a volunteer organization dedicated to horticulture and conservation. In 1913, it was one of twelve founding members of the Garden Club of America. From its earliest years, the Lake Forest Garden Club has worked to promote the understanding of the interdependence of horticulture, environmental protection and community improvement. Since 2000, the Club has made philanthropic contributions totaling over $1 million dollars in the local community. Projects include planting of elm trees along Deerpath Road from Green Bay Road to Waukegan Road in memory of soldiers who died in WWI as well as planting of daffodil bulbs that bloom in April on the Deerpath Middle School hill in memory of the victims of 9/11. The Club provided funds for a landscape redesign plan for Market Square in the 1990’s, Gorton Community Center, both the former and new Lake Forest Hospitals, the Lake Forest Library, and most recently the re-imagined Forest Park.

The club meets at least ten times a year with programs focused on conservation, horticulture, floral design, photography, garden history and design, environmental education, and civic beautification. In recognition of its one hundred-year legacy of service, in 2012 LFGC made a gift of $100,000 to the City of Lake Forest and the Forest Park Project for the rehabilitation of this historic park.

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