The Greenville Garden Club’s 100th Anniversary Celebration at Greenville Cypress Park
The Greenville Garden Club will be celebrating its 100th Anniversary on May 7th with a community-wide festival at the Greenville Cypress Preserve. The event will be from 10 am until 3 pm for all ages to enjoy.
The Cypress Preserve is but one of the many projects that was spear-headed by the Greenville Garden Club in 1942 and is now entrusted to the Cypress Preserve Trust. The Greenville Garden Club was founded in 1922 with an advertisement through the our local newspaper – with a caption that asked “all Greenville women interested in gardening to meet at the City Hall.”
Forty women responded, whereupon the first garden club in the state of Mississippi was founded and named the Greenville Garden Club. The only requirement for membership at that time was that each member do “personal work in her garden.”
During the first year of its existence, programs were varied and included a professional landscape architect, and local speakers on “Garden Planning”, “Roses”, “Dahlias”, “Spring Planting of Annuals and Perennials”, and a short talk monthly on “What to Do in the Garden This Month.” Also in its first year the club assisted in the formation of other clubs and helped in civic planting at the hospital and the Greenville Cemetery. From this ambitious beginning the Greenville Garden Club has had an active and productive existence continuously for the last 100 years.
The Greenville Garden Club is a member of the Garden Club of America and the Garden Clubs of Mississippi. The purpose of member GCA clubs is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence, and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.
The endeavors of the Greenville Garden Club are multi-fold in our community as members work endlessly to beautify our town, conserve and preserve our historic elements and share our knowledge of gardening with others.
Join in the festival on Saturday, May 7th as The Greenville Garden Club celebrates its 100th Anniversary. There will be nature walks, animals from the Natural Wildlife museum, face-painting on the observation deck, food trucks, live music and much more for you and your family to enjoy.
The Greenville Cypress Preserve is at the corner of Cypress Lane and Highway 82 West.
