Funded by Rochester Garden Club: 1916-2014
1916 Poet’s Garden at Highland Park
1939 Crabapple trees along Wilson Boulevard at the University of Rochester
1942 Initiated funding for extermination of Japanese Beetles in Rochester
1943 Plantings at Sampson Naval Base, Geneva, New York
1946 Helped purchase 200 acres to preserve the Bergen Swamp (1947 – received GCA Founders Fund Award for helping to preserve the Bergen Swamp)
1956 Montgomery Center and Third Ward Project
1958 Helped fund library addition at the Garden Center
1959 Funds to initiate landscaping at Campbell-Whittlesey House
1964 Plantings around Liberty Pole in downtown Rochester
1965 Planting of a double row of Linden Trees at Memorial Art Gallery
1968-74 Landscaping at the American Red Cross
1971-75 Landscape plan and plantings at Brewster-Burke House
1976-80 Trail signs and entrance landscaping at Cumming Nature Center (1979 – Finalist for GCA Founders Fund Award for work at Cumming Nature Center)
1981-84 Provided one half of the funds to restore the West Garden at the George Eastman House (1984 –Formal dedication to Virginia Judson)
1986-87 Plant material for indoor Sculpture Garden at Memorial Art Gallery
1986-92 Lamberton Conservatory Courtyard Gardens plan and plantings
1990-93 Plant material to landscape grounds at renovated Hoyt Potter House
1991-2014 Habitat for Humanity – Tree Plantings (114 trees through 2014) and Holiday Workshop
1992-93 Master landscape plan for Hillside Children’s Center campus and planting for new Highland Avenue entrance
1992-93 Helped fund Reforest Rochester and Reforest Monroe County Parks
1994 Partial funding of restoration of Japanese Garden at Sonnenberg Gardens, Canandaigua, NY
1995-96 Design and plantings at Eastman Dental Center
1996-97 Butterfly Gardens and initial stage of the Wetlands Boardwalk System at the Girl Scouts Program Center
1997 Plantings for South Avenue Garden at new Bausch & Lomb Library
1998 G.C.A. Project 2000: Butterfly House, Washington, D.C.
1998 Susan B. Anthony Visitor/Education Center Gardens
1999-2001 Restoration of Susan B. Anthony Gardens
(1999 Finalist for GCA Founders Fund Award)
2000-03 Rochester Civic Garden Center Library
2001-03 Genesee Country Museum Children’s Garden
2002 Family Service of Rochester Stand-Up Gardens
2002 George Eastman House – educational component for “Genius for Place: Landscapes of the Country Place Era”
2003-05 Alzheimer’s Association Memory Gardens “Circle of Hope” Garden
2005 St. Joseph’s Villa – greenhouse enhancement and Meditation Garden Pond
2005 Project accepted by GCA Partners for Plants – Oak Opening
2006 Rochester Garden Collaborative Brochure
2006 Partners for Plants Rush Oak Opening fencing
2007-08 Strong National Museum of Play Discovery Garden and Gate
2008 Eco-Center Garden at the Seneca Park Zoo
2009 Rochester Civic Garden Center restoration of the Courtyard Garden
2009 Ronald McDonald House renovation of the Front Garden
2009 St. Joseph’s Villa – Irrigation system for Greenhouse and Horticultural Program use
2010 Funded Master Gardener’s Lecture Series, Rochester Civic Garden Center
2011 Funded modernization of Rochester Civic Garden Center Library
2011 Funded seating walls and extensive landscaping of Conkey Corner Park, partnering with Genesee Land Trust
2012-13 Funded spring-flowering trees and shrubs for the El Camino Trail Project, in collaboration with Genesee Land Trust
2014 Renovation of the Poet’s Garden at Highland Park
2015 Pansy Bed Renewal, RGC’s Centennial Gift to the Rochester Community
2015 Sponsor of the George Eastman Museum Exhibition: In the Garden
2016 Greentopia: FlourGarden at the GardenAerial Project along the Historic Brown’s Race
2017 George Eastman Museum Terrace Garden boxwood restoration
Green Visions garden shed
Genesee Land Trust for planting trees at Conkey Park
Nature Conservancy Rob’s Trail educational signage
2018 George Eastman Museum refurbishment of garden areas
Equicenter Greenhouse
Veteran’s Outreach center for landscaping at women’s shelter
RIT Institute for Sustainability -funding research fellows and others
Blocks in Bloom
2019 Blocks in Bloom
Equicenter for development of pollinator gardens
George Eastman Museum to rehab the library garden
Green Visions for youth scholarships
Hillside Greenhouse Project
Norman Howard School for their gardening program for students
St. Mark and St. John’s Churches for their neighborhood vegetable garden programs in connection with Foodlink
2020
Genesee Valley Country Museum, scholarships for summer camp
RIT
2021
Green Visions Workforce Development Program– two scholarships
Monroe County Parks Weed Wrangle/Olmsted 200 Project
Rochester Landscape Technicians Project– two scholarships
Seneca Park Zoo Society Urban Ecology Workforce Development Program
Center for Youth/Earth Works Project
2022
Corn Hill Neighborhood Association, Butterfly Way Station
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Pollinator Garden, Master Gardener Training, Landscape Technician Scholarship
EquiCenter Garden
Genesee Land Trust Ambassadors Program
George Eastman House Museum Garden
Special project approved by the Club to fund the Highland Park Conservancy Project for the Children’s Pavilion.