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Civic Contribution
Member of The Garden Club of America, The River Oaks Garden
Club was founded
in 1927 and has made many contributions to
the Houston community in the areas
of conservation, horticulture
and civic beautification. Proceeds from the Azalea Trail
support
these ongoing projects:
- Maintenance of the River Oaks Garden Club Forum of Civics
Building and Gardens. The gardens are open to the public.
- Maintenance of the 14-acre gardens of Bayou Bend, the
former estate
of Miss Ima Hogg, and now the Bayou Bend Collection
and Gardens,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Establishment of the Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment, a charitable
trust
for the perpetual maintenance of the gardens. The
endowment is supported
by public contributions.
- Host of the annual Sadie Gwin Blackburn Environmental
Seminar,
which is open to the public. Admission is free.
- Publication of A Garden
Book for Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Civic Contribution Recipients for 2010–2011
- Buffalo Bayou Partnership - To be applied to an Invasive Plant Species Eradication Unit. Specifically, funds would be used to purchase tools and materials such as shovels, rakes, axes, clippers, uniforms and other necessary equipment needed to fight invasive species.
- Camp for All - To purchase 5 new 95 gallon Live Oaks to place in key program areas where shade is needed.
- Student Conservation Association - To help fund SCA’s community conservation crew programs in Houston. The crews provide underserved urban teens, an opportunity to transform themselves while also transforming the green space of Houston.
- Peckerwood Garden - To support ongoing operations:
- Conservation: Its estimated 3000 species and cultivars of rare and fragile plants, the Garden is a successful conservation preserve and plant trial ground where new plants are tested for hardiness and garden worthiness.
- Research and Education: Maintaining a seed bank and seed exchange program that allows other horticultural and botanical organizations to have access to its rare plants.
- Usage of new acreage: They have recently added 20 new acres which house a small pavilion, an office, equipment storage building, and 6 greenhouses.
- Quentin Mease Hospital - To help renovate their only garden to create a horticulture therapy garden that will provide a healing environment to enhance the patient’s recovery during their stay in the hospital.
- The Harris School - To rebuild a working garden destroyed by Hurricane Ike. The garden provided a quiet meditation area, a picnic spot and an outdoor science center.
- Tanglewood Park - Funds will be used for a much needed bench in the park.
- River Oaks Park - Help with a major landscape beautification program begun in 2009.
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