ABOUT US

HISTORY

The Boulevard Garden Club was established in 2005, to “educate, beautify, and build our community through a love of plants and gardening”.  The BGC membership steadily grew from 25 neighbors from around Historic Boulevard and Pulaski Heights, to 80 members representing all the in-town neighborhoods as well as communities as far away as Winterville and Watkinsville. The Club also connects about 150 current and former members via its listserv for the purpose of sharing gardening related information and announcements about its activities.

In addition to organizing monthly social and educational opportunities for members, the BGC has, through its service projects, made notable contributions to the Historic Boulevard Neighborhood. While the Boulevard Garden Club membership is open to anyone, the by-laws of the club specifically state that projects are to focus on the Boulevard Neighborhood.

As a long-standing friend to Chase Street School, the Club has raised money for benches, helped to install a butterfly garden, and taken responsibility for relocating the school’s garden and fostering plants while renovation was underway. As a result of its annual fall bulb sale, 7,500 daffodils erase our winter doldrums each year, and it is the BGC we can thank for keeping the traffic circle plantings in check at Nacoochee and Boulevard.

The Boulevard Gardening Club may be best known for its annual showcase event, the Roving Garden Party. Held at the height of spring, it’s primarily a progressive cocktail party and finger food feast, exposing party-goers to exceptional gardens in our midst as well as quirky hidden gems and even gardens-in-progress. Proceeds from the Roving Garden Party have been donated to other garden projects such as Boulevard Woods, The Athens Land Trust’s Ruth Street Garden, Beech Haven, and the community garden on Pope Street spearheaded by club member Karen Witten.