The Raleigh Garden Club celebrates its Centennial this year!
All are welcome to celebrate our 100th anniversary with special events throughout the 2025 year. Learn more about the influence the Raleigh Garden Club has had on the City of Raleigh during the past 100 years.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Members of the Raleigh Garden Club will be marching in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Hope to see you there!
Program at the Gardeners of Wake County
Cultivating Green: How a Garden Club Transformed Raleigh’s Landscape
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 7 pm.
Speaker: Erica Winston
Location: McSwain Auditorium, JC Raulston Arboretum
Discover how a group of volunteer gardeners contributed to the landscape of Raleigh that we know today. This forgotten history of the contributions of Garden Clubs to the civic landscape is an astonishing story of grassroots activism and gardening … one completely lost today.
Member talk featuring founding members of the Raleigh Garden Club for a look at how garden clubs helped create an important microeconomy in the nursery and landscape industry in the early 20th century.
Exhibition: City of Raleigh Museum
Planting Power: 100 Years of the Raleigh Garden Club
April 4, 6-9 pm
Join Club members for the opening night of an exhibit on how volunteers in a garden club shaped Raleigh's landscape, enjoy a signature mocktail designed for the occasion, plus the rest of Raleigh's First Friday events to showcase the best of our city's creative community. Free, open to the public, City of Raleigh Museum https://www.cityofraleighmuseum.org
Exhibition open regular museum hours March 20th onwards.
Sunday, March 30, 2025: Tour of the Isabelle Bowen Henderson Garden.
Lunchbox Lecture Series: Raleigh's Secret Garden:
April 17, 12 - 1 pm
Bring your lunch and discover a treasure of history, garden design and architecture combined with the artistry of folk pottery and NC portraiture. Hear about the epic battle to preserve this historic gem from the path of highway bulldozers. Free, City of Raleigh Museum.