1990-2011 Lenox Garden Club * LGC co-hosts GCA Zone I Small Flower Show at Hancock Shaker Village, 1990. * LGC hosts its first annual House and Garden Tour “Hidden Treasures of the ”, 1991. Chronology * LGC participates in ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate 1960-1989 the restoration of Lilac Park, 1991. * LGC plans and dedicates Proctor Garden in Memory of Mrs. Rodney Proctor at The Berkshire Garden Center, 1960s. * LGC hosts the GCA Zone 1 Meeting June 10-11, 1997. * LGC hosts 420 GCA Members at the GCA Annual Meeting in Lenox, 1962. * LGC helps to plant shrubs and perennials with Habitat for Humanity’s new owners in Pittsfield. * LGC participates in Lenox Bicentennial Flower Show with “1776 Lenox Homestead”, and enters a decorated pony “tub” cart in the parade, 1967. * LGC submits photographs and descriptions of seven notable Berkshire gardens and all are accepted into the Archives of American Gardens, * LGC members are instrumental in saving “The Old Corner House”, a collaboration of GCA and the Smithsonian Institution, 1990s-present. Stockbridge, which later becomes the Museum, 1968. * LGC funds GCA Worldwide Summer Environmental Scholarships 1911-1919 * LGC hosts the Southern New England Zone II meeting, 1968. to college students, 1990s-present. * First Meeting of the * LGC has Annual Plant Sales at Hancock Shaker Village, * LGC designs South Facing Plant Room for the NE Flower Show, 1995. Lenox Garden Club 1940-1959 proceeds for community projects, 1970s. * LGC enters horticulture exhibit at NE Flower Show of plants (LGC). “Weeds”, a * LGC raises over $1700 to purchase Mobile Canteen paper is presented. The * LGC does extensive work on organizing and clean-up of Williams River, 1970s. brought into the USA by Thomas Hall from England, 1996. Equipment and a Station Wagon for the Berkshire * LGC has massive daffodil bulb planting in Lilac Park, 1971. First President is Mr. County Chapter American Red Cross by showing * LGC funds the rebuilding of the steps to the Chinese Temple at Naumkeag, and later Richard Goodman. 3 Stockbridge gardens, circa 1940. * LGC member, receives National GCA Historic Preservation funds the restoration of the garden’s Moon Gate and Tile roof of the Temple, 1997. Dues: $3.00, 1911. Award for her extensive work at Hancock Shaker Village, 1973. 1920-1939 * LGC opens members’ gardens to benefit * Daffodil Show at Ventfort Hall with display of Members’ hand-painted * LGC joins the Garden * LGC organizes a World Famine Relief, 1940. * LGC designs miniature room replica of Herman Melville’s study, including a miniature daffodil plates, 2006. Club of America (GCA). flower arrangement and life-size arrangement for GCA Annual Meeting, 1976. community flower show * LGC seconds the purchase of Bartholomew’s Cobble * Regional meeting of GCA Garden History & Design at The Mount, 2006. Dues: $3.50 (50 cents in Lilac Park designed * LGC’s “A Dooryard Garden” wins two cups for excellence in horticulture for GCA dues), 1913. in Sheffield which wins a Founders Fund Award * LGC Newsletter changes format to color printing, 50% of membership by Daniel Chester from GCA, 1944. and design in the New England Flower Show in Boston, 1976. start to receive it online, 2006 - present. * The Program and French, 1922. * LGC publishes “Aspects of Gardening in Berkshire County”, 1976. Plant Committees * WORLD WAR II: LGC participates in “Seeds for * Flower arrangements for “Meals on Wheels” by LGC members, 2007. * LGC joins with 7 other England” Project, 1940s-50s. Victory gardens abound. * LGC hosts the GCA Zone 1 Meeting, 1978. are organized. clubs to form the * LGC members clean-up along the Housatonic River, Great Barrington for “River Walk”. * LGC hosts GCA Berkshire Garden Center, * LGC wins GCA Founders Fund grant to finance an * LGC sponsors the first local Daffodil Show at the Berkshire Garden Center, 1983. * LGC presents GCA Flower Shows “Bloomsday”, “Go GREEN I”, “Go GREEN II”, Annual Meeting. Stockbridge, 1934. expedition to Great Britain and Ireland to collect * LGC conceives the idea and sponsors the first Festival of Trees at the “Kooky Spooky”, 2006-2009. rare plants for introduction to the USA, 1952. Dues: $5.00, 1916. * LGC members conceive Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 1986. * “Passports”, first Photography Show, 2009. * WORLD WAR I: idea of a bird sanctuary. * LGC wins a Blue Ribbon and special Horticulture * LGC members’ cookbook Fifty Nifty Treats I, II & III, published 1970’s -1983. commendation at the International Flower Show * In memory of Gertrude Burdsall, LGC funds a GCA Zeller Award to graduate student LGC decides to devote Pleasant Valley Sanctuary * LGC members have Horticultural Therapy Workshop with Kimball Farm residents, 1986. for study in Medicinal Botany, 2009. the year to food is developed, 1930s. in NYC for its “Plymouth 1640 Garden”, 1954. production instead * LGC wins First Premium award for a garden “Patio” * LGC wins the GCA’s Webster Cup for excellence in design for “A Garden in Quito” * LGC donates large planting of crocus at BBG in memory of Gertrude Burdsall, 2009. * LGC enters the New exhibited at the New England Flower Show, Boston, 1987. of floriculture. York Flower Show in in Lenox Horticultural Society Show, 1956. * LGC donations and grants exceed $300,000 to 38 community organizations since 1991. * LGC participates in Grand Central Palace * LGC Members establish herb cutting garden at * LGC enters New England Flower Show with a “Kitchen Window Greenhouse”, 1988. * In honor of LGC’s 100th year, LGC donates $100,000 to build the Berkshire national effort to and wins Blue for its Berkshire Garden Center, later turned over to the * LGC is one of three finalists and runner-up of $2500 GCA Founders Fund Award Botanical Garden’s new educational classroom with state of the art equipment, preserve redwoods. “Mexican Balcony”, 1938. Herb Associates, 1958. for restoration of the Red Garden at Edith Wharton’s “The Mount”, 1989. all from proceeds earned from its Annual Garden and House Tours, 2011.