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About Our Club
The Emory Garden Club Mission
Statement:Our mission is to help promote and sustain Emory's natural "green" environment.
We hope you enjoy the photos, stories and gardening information listed on this website.
History:
In the Summer of 2000, the Emory Garden Club was formed from a small group of Emory staff members who enjoyed getting together to talk about plants, and share gardening stories and photos. We began meeting once a month (lunch/meetings) in various locations around the Emory Campus to talk about future Emory gardening projects. In the beginning there were only five garden club members, but as membership grew very quickly, we were finally ready to put our gardening knowledge and tools to good use.
Projects:
We began designing and planting several gardens all around the Emory campus. Our first "official" garden project was a butterfly garden that we planted at the Mathematics and Science Center (see projects and events for more information). Our next project was a shade garden in the heavily wooded ravine area at Woodruff Library. We ordered a variety of shade plants from the Emory grounds department, and the hardest part of this project was getting a hundred plants from the grounds department to the ravine! We loaded the plants in our cars, and delivered them to the sidewalk near Woodruff Library. We borrowed several rolling book carts from the library and rolled the carts to the edge of the ravine and then carried the plants to their final designated planting space.
In the Summer of 2003, we began our largest gardening project called The Spring House Project. We uncovered very old concrete steps that lead down a steep hill with a creek at the bottom of the hill. These steps had been hidden from view for many years. We had to clear out an amazing amount of over-grown weeds, and dig through a few inches of hard-packed red-clay before these steps could be used again. We also cleared the area around the steps that lead off to the right, to a long winding path taking you to an old spring house located behind the Houston Mill House. We created a brochure that outlined a few details of this project. We hope some day in the future to install wrought iron hand-rails and low-lighting for the path, and maybe a bench or two.
See Projects & Events.
Here are some photos of our club members on a field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in July of 2003.
© 2003 Emory University
For more information
contact: acarey@emory.edu
Last
Update: March 2012