NGC President Donna Donnelly has proclaimed June 7-12 as National Garden Week. This is a week to highlight your garden club’s activities on social media and throughout your community to spread the word about the many benefits your garden club offers to the public and to your members.

Activities that spread the word include:

  • Place a poster in your library giving the date and time of your monthly meetings.
  • Have a member go on your local radio talk show and discuss your garden club and your activities.
  • Have your local newspaper write a column about your garden club and highlight some of the activities your club has done to help your community.
  • Visit a rotary meeting or other service organization and discuss your club’s activities that have helped your community. A power point is always an easy way to do this.
  • Provide a special gardening activity for local youth or assisted living residents.
  • Provide a gardening activity for a local 4-H gardening group or Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts.

Benefits garden clubs offer through speakers, workshops, flower shows, demonstrations, hands-on activities and exhibits include:

  1. Provide information about growing and caring for plants that are found in your town’s US Planting Zone.
  2. Preserve our country’s traditional spirit of patriotism through our Blue and Gold Star Memorial Markers program.
  3. Provide information about local wildlife and the importance of protecting native animals and their environments.
  4. Provide flower shows to exhibit the variety of plants that grow in your area and how to arrange them in floral designs.
  5. Teach the positive benefits of gardening for the mind and body.
  6. Improve local communities through projects that add landscaping in parks, schools, public spaces and for new Habitat for Humanity homes.
  7. Provide information and projects for local youth to help them gain gardening knowledge and a respect for our environment and its plants and wildlife.
  8. Provide opportunities for club members to socialize and form lasting friendships within your club.

Placing a tri-fold display at your local library is a good way to advertise your garden club during National Garden Week.