The Charlotte Garden
Club, Inc. was organized in 1924 as North Carolina's first
garden club. Its purpose is to further the member's knowledge of
gardening through programs and projects under the direction of
experts in the fields of horticulture and design.
Members meet one evening a month from September through May at
the Mint Museum of Art to share in educational lectures and
entertainment by authorities in landscape design, horticulture
and other topics of interest to people who enjoy gardens and/or
gardening. In addition to the regularly scheduled
programs, the group also organizes occasional day trips to local
and regional gardens.
The Charlotte Garden Club has been an affiliate of
the Mint Museums of Art since 1954. It contributes to projects designed to
beautify the Museums and their grounds as well as projects which
add to the beauty of Charlotte.
Funds for the professional landscaping of the Museum's grounds
come from the Club's co-sponsoring the annual Home and Garden
Tour as well as the Home and Garden Tour Symposium with the Mint
Museum Auxiliary.
Projects funded by the Garden Club include the construction and
continuing maintenance of the two Courtyard Gardens which are
viewed from overlooking windows of the Museum's galleries, the
installation of a sprinkler system on the Museum's grounds,
construction and maintenance of the Terrace Garden at the Mint's
entrance, providing flowering plants for the Museums' entrances and decorating the Museum for Christmas.
