Elk Grove Garden Club
Elk Grove Garden Club
The Elk Grove Garden Club (EGGC) nourishes a love of gardening through informative programs and knowledge-sharing, and builds community through club- and cityfocused activities and friendships among members.
The EGGC is excited about beautifying the world through the love of gardening.
Besides delighting the senses with color, texture and scents, gardening is a great way to connect with the earth, reduce stress, increase creativity and promote relaxation.
Our members give to the community through gardening partnerships and projects with local schools, historical societies, and city parks; to the wider world with reforestation projects in the state; and to the future with an annual scholarship awarded to a local student.
We currently have an active partnership with the Cosumnes Community Services
District (CCSD) to identify needs and support existing gardens within the CCSD Parks system, to suggest topics and provide instructors for CCSD classes for the public, and to look to future opportunities to create destination gardens within Elk Grove. We have four community projects underway.
• Maintain and improve the Lichtenberger Park Rose Garden, a partnership with the Cosumnes CSD.
• Maintain and improve the landscaping around the Jerry Fox Swim Center in Elk Grove Park including the sponsorship of a large mural on the building, and theestablishment of a drought-tolerant native plant landscape, also a partnership with Cosumnes CSD.
• Renovate and maintain the butterfly garden at Mendoza Park, the most recentpartnership with Cosumnes CSD.
• Developed and now maintain dahlia and pollinator beds at the Nicolaus DairyHistorical Site on the grounds of Regional San. This is a partnership with Regional San, the Elk Grove Unified School District, and Sacramento Splash.
Our members are enthusiastic about the future and the opportunity to sponsor a scholarship this year for a student who shares our appreciation for the natural world, and is pursuing an education in environmental studies, horticulture, nursery operations, irrigation, and water management, landscape design and construction, botany, agronomy, plant pathology, forestry, conservation, or related environmental or plantbased subjects.