Hampton Garden Club

Welcome!

Welcome to the Webpage for the Hampton Garden Club! This page serves as a place for information regarding the club and its projects.

The goals of the Hampton Garden Club are:

-To promote the love of gardening, horticulture, flower design, and civic and environmental responsibility through education and practice.
-To increase our awareness of the impact we have on our environment, resulting in our commitment to plant trees and natives and to work eliminating invasive plants.
-To develop our stewardship of the natural environment, we will become actively involved in local, state, and national environmental issues.

Garden Therapy

-Three to four times yearly, members give a garden related program to approximately 18-20 senior residents at Manor Care Nursing Home.

Horticulture, Ecology

– Provide educational presentations to our members.

Political Action

– Gather information about environmental issues debated during the Maryland Legislative Session. Inform the membership and organize responses.

Club Contributions

-Provide financial support for the organizations and projects listed below:
-FGCMD Scholarship
-Hampton Mansion Intern
-Wreaths Across America
-Blue Water Baltimore
-FGCMD President’s Project
-District III Gifts for Great Gardens
-Chesapeake Bay Foundation
-Boys Hope/Girls Hope

Boys Hope/Girls Hope

We have been given the opportunity to give back to our community in a big way! Over the last year a group of members have taken up the new project of building a vegetable garden for the students at Baltimores “Boys Hope/Girls Hope” houses.

This has been a wonderful learning experience for both the students and the members, as they learn which plants can be grown where, along with which plants exactly ARE good plants and which are weeds! Learning where ones food comes from is a valuable lesson, even if it is often quite difficult to get kids to eat vegetables. 😉

We look forward to continuing our work with this organization, and helping to educate the youth who participate in the program! For more information regarding this wonderful program, please see their website https://bhghbaltimore.org .

Meeting 10/5/2022

At our monthly meeting for October we had a delightful presentation from Claire Jones about drying flowers/plants and how to use them for decoration and design. Also, being that she is the President of our Garden Club District, she gave us a rundown on how Garden Clubs are organized and run throughout our area and even up to the national level.

We also made mugs arrangements for Meals on Wheels using mugs, greens, and flowers contributed by members. This was very appreciated the last time we did it, and so we had quite a good time doing it again!