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• Gardening education for members and the community.
• Community beautification and green space preservation.
• Encouragement, help and assistance to youth and disabled in gardening activities.
• Establishment of good friendships and camaraderie with fellow gardeners.

Most clubs have monthly meeting programs that emphasize an educational phase of gardening or horticulture. Listed below are special or ongoing activities for some clubs, listed in order of the States:

Note:  If your TGOA/MGCA club is not listed you are invited to submit a list of its major annual activities. Also updates are encouraged.
Submit by email to: tgoasecy@dwx.com

Arizona

            Valley of the Sun Gardeners (Phoenix, AZ)

Colorado

            Garden Club of Littleton (Littleton, CO)

Kansas

Olathe Gardeners of America (Olathe, KS)

Sunflower Gardeners of America (Kansas City, KS)

• Provides for members a Summer Garden Tour
  and Potluck picnic. Click here to see photos.
                        Click here to see 2006 monthly programs.

        

Kansas                                                                   

Olathe Gardeners of America (Olathe, KS)

• Supports the Heritage Garden, at the University in Bozeman.

• Harvested 2,106 pounds of potatoes in year 2000, from the Community Garden, for the Low Income Ministry Food Pantry. Club members donated another 350 pounds of produce from their own family gardens.

• Sells 1,200 dozen geranium plants each May - main fundraiser for youth gardening and scholarships.
• Conducts a spring plant sale in a local mall or other location.
• Conducts a plant auction and fish fry - members bring and buy plants.
• Provides funding for Grow Lab Units and assistance in elementary classrooms.
• Holds an annual Big Tree contest for members - awards for each species submitted.
• Provides beautification awards for outstanding home, business, and institutional gardens.
• Sponsors an annual Horticulture Show open to the public.
• Installed and maintains a perennial garden at the Hospice Center.
• Plans and installs landscaping for new Habitat for Humanity homes in connection with the TGOA  Gardening From the Heart program.
• Helps with maintenance of the Crown Point Food Bank Vegetable Garden.
• Provides college college scholarships to Horticulture students at Ohio State Agricultural Technical Institute.
                                                                          

Greater Cleveland Men's Garden Club (OH)

• Provides guided tours at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens
  for their Hershey Children's Garden.
• Provides guided tours at the Cleveland Rockefeller Park Greenhouse for city public school 2nd and 3rd graders for two 8-week sessions annually.
• Maintains a section of the gardens at Ronald McDonald House serving patients of Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital.
• Prepares and staffs booths at the Clifton Art Festival and Cleveland Botanical Gardens to answer questions and sell plant material with proceeds for student scholarships.
• Provides a booth at the Cleveland I-X Center Home and Garden Show to answer questions and recruit members.
• In 1999 planted an early settlers herb garden at the Carter Cabin on the Cuyahoga River in the Cleveland Flats.
• In 1998 rejuvenated several gardens in the Cleveland Flats as part of the Crooked River Project.
• In 1992 restored the Courtyard Garden at the Cleveland Child Guidance Center.
                                                                 

• Conducts a large fund raising auction each spring, featuring plants, garden related items and good home baked items then uses the funds to support community projects.
• Holds a Horticulture Show at the Findlay Mall, open to everyone.
• Plants and maintains a large flowerbed at the junction of two main routes in Findlay.
• Maintains flowerbeds at the Red Cross, Masonic Temple, and other locations.
• Participates in the TGOA/MGCA pumpkin/sunflower contest.
• Conducts a flower and vegetable contest/show for youth at the county fair.
   

Stow Community Garden Club (OH)       

• Conducts monthly dinner meetings (except July and August) with gardening and related programs.
• Conducts an annual "Strawberry Festival" in June with a guest speaker.
• Arranges an annual "Bus Trip" in August for members and guests.
• Provides garden plots each year for youth and adults.
• Conducts an annual youth garden show.
• Presents annual Civic Landscape Awards for outstanding Civic, Industrial, and Commercial landscapes.
• Raises funds from garden plot charges, raffles at each meeting with cash prizes, plant sales and calendar sales.
• Presents annual club awards to members for service to the club.

Gardeners of Van Wert County (OH)

• Conducts an annual plant sale, Friday & Saturday before Mother's Day.
• Plants and maintains community flower beds in various parks and public areas.
• Plants and maintains pots in downtown areas in partnership with Starr Commonwealth School.
• Holds a horticulture show at the County Fairgrounds in June along with three area garden clubs.
• Hosts a bus trip in June and organizes a garden tour in July
• In summer three members mow the interstate cloverleaf at State Routes 30 and 127.
• Hosts an annual picnic with other area clubs.
• Presents civic beautification awards to businesses and homeowners.
• Sets up a booth at the County Fair,
• Hosts a  fall banquet.
   

• Conducts commercial landscape judging evaluations with the Chamber of Commerce annually.
• Sponsors an annual juried Rose Show.
• Financed pruning of 489 street trees it has planted over the past 20 years.
• Planted another 280 street trees cooperatively with the City and County.
• Picks up litter on an "adopted" city street routinely.
• Conducts an annual community plant sale of plants propagated by members as a primary fundraiser.
• Maintains multiple community flowerbeds.
• Financed a demonstration landscaped street triangle to promote a new "Spot of Pride" program to attract sponsors for dozens of new "spots." 
• Designed and financed a teaching amphitheater at Hatcher Gardens.
• Provides ongoing financial and physical support to Hatcher Gardens.
• Initiated a broad-based education program on proper tree planting procedure.
• Has an annual picnic to thank local supporters and friends.

• Maintains a church landscape.
• Manages and teaches gardening using on-site garden at Children's University.

• Conducts educational meetings to make horticulture information available to their community.
• Members volunteer to design, plant, water and care for the gardens at Zilker Botanical Gardens.
• Conducts an annual plant auction, open to the public, netting about $900.
• Provides an annual Ice Cream and Cookies Family Night with a special program.
• Participates with other garden groups to maintain a Healing Garden for the  Austin State Hospital.
• Conducts Summer/Fall flower and vegetable shows, open to the public.
• Conducts, in conjunction with their shows, sale of plants propagated by members for an annual net of $1500.
• Members volunteer to work the gate for the annual fundraiser for Zilker Botanical Garden.
• Participates in their club, Region and National slide contests.
• Members donate door prizes and Trade-A-Plant for the monthly meeting.
• Awards scholarships to deserving students who are majoring in horticulture.
• Celebrated their 50th Golden Jubilee in 2003, established in 1953.

• Sponsored a new plant collection called the "Hardy Palm and Tropical Collection" at the Dallas Arboretum in 2005.
  See more at: http://www.dallasgardeners.org/palm_garden.asp
• Conducts monthly third Tuesday club meetings (7 PM) with guest speakers at North Haven Gardens Nursery. Club provides refreshments, door prizes and nursery gift certificates at each meeting.
• Conducts monthly Saturday seminars on gardening topics by club and guest speakers at North Haven Gardens Nursery in Dallas.  See more at: http://www.nhg.com/index.asp
• Celebrated 25 years of public plant shows in 2002.
• Celebrated 60 years of Gardening Excellence in 2001. Established in 1941.
• Celebrated their 50-year Golden Anniversary in 2000, Affiliated with MGCA/TGOA in 1950.
• Hosted the MGCA/TGOA National Convention in 1995.
• Conducts Spring and Fall Plant and Vegetable Shows at local Malls.
• Conducts annual fund raising and created a special club calendar as a fundraiser that benefits the club scholarship fund and community projects.
• Members provide content for a local magazine.
• Club members provide gardening information at garden shows both spring and fall.
• Has an annual picnic to thank local members and friends.
• Provides scholarships to horticultural students of  Richland College (Dallas).
• Provides plants and landscaping to a home for the mentally challenged and planted a landscape at a Habitat for Humanity location.
• Club website: http://www.dallasgardeners.org
   

• Sponsors annual Cylinder Gardening Program for over 3000 grade school students.
• Provides training to teachers on how to teach horticulture.
• Constructed and maintains the Iris bed at the Botanical Garden.
• Conducts plant sales at each Flower and Vegetable Show.

• Conducts an annual plant sale for over $3,000 net per year.
• Conducted horticultural seminars at all day gardening event.

• Has its own four-building greenhouse used for Community Education and Service and Club fund-raising.
• Provides plants and landscaping to a women's shelter, a men's shelter, a home for the elderly, a museum, etc.
• Conducts an annual plant sale in local mall to finance community projects.
• Supports horticultural education at a Children's Home.
• Celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 1999.

      

Wisconsin                                                                                                   

Gardeners Club of Green  Bay (WI)

• Conducts monthly meetings with gardening and related programs.
• Co-sponsors with Master Gardeners a spring plant sale for fund raising purposes.
• Participates in the local Landscape and Gardening Show with a booth to disseminate club information and greet and educate the public.
• Conducts a produce weigh-in at the Green Bay Farmers' Market in September.
• Conducts sunflower and pumpkin contests for youths in September and October.
• Arranges an annual bus trip in September for members and guests.
• Provides volunteer time, plants, and money for a new perennial garden and rain garden at the Brown County Agriculture and Extension grounds.
• Provides annual individual awards for horticulture service to the community and to owners for their exceptional residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional gardens.
• Hosts an annual Harvest Awards Banquet for members, guests and awards recipients for all club awards including recognition awards for members' service.
• Provides financial assistance to the Green Bay Botanical Garden and the Northeast Wisconsin Endowment Fund for Horticulture Education.
• Maintains a club web site and monthly newsletter with current club information.
• Hosted the TGOA/MGCA National Convention in 1999.