1990-2011* LGC co-hosts GCA Zone I Small Flower Show at Hancock Shaker Village, 1990.* LGC hosts its first annual House and Garden Tour “Hidden Treasures of the Berkshires”, 1991.* LGC participates in ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the restoration of Lilac Park, 1991. * LGC hosts the GCA Zone 1 Meeting June 10-11, 1997.* LGC helps to plant shrubs and perennials with Habitat for Humanity’s new owners in Pittsfield.* LGC submits photographs and descriptions of seven notable Berkshire gardens and all are accepted into the Archives of American Gardens, a collaboration of GCA and the Smithsonian Institution, 1990s-present.* LGC funds GCA Worldwide Summer Environmental Scholarships to college students, 1990s-present. * LGC designs South Facing Plant Room for the NE Flower Show, 1995.* LGC enters horticulture exhibit at NE Flower Show of plants brought into the USA by Thomas Hall from England, 1996.* LGC funds the rebuilding of the steps to the Chinese Temple at Naumkeag, and later funds the restoration of the garden’s Moon Gate and Tile roof of the Temple, 1997.* Daffodil Show at Ventfort Hall with display of Members’ hand-painted daffodil plates, 2006.* Regional meeting of GCA Garden History & Design at The Mount, 2006.* LGC Newsletter changes format to color printing, 50% of membership start to receive it online, 2006 - present. * Flower arrangements for “Meals on Wheels” by LGC members, 2007. * LGC members clean-up along the Housatonic River, Great Barrington for “River Walk”.* LGC presents GCA Flower Shows “Bloomsday”, “Go GREEN I”, “Go GREEN II”, “Kooky Spooky”, 2006-2009. * “Passports”, first Photography Show, 2009.* In memory of Gertrude Burdsall, LGC funds a GCA Zeller Award to graduate student for study in Medicinal Botany, 2009. * LGC donates large planting of crocus at BBG in memory of Gertrude Burdsall, 2009. * LGC donations and grants exceed $300,000 to 38 community organizations since 1991.* In honor of LGC’s 100th year, LGC donates $100,000 to build the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s new educational classroom with state of the art equipment, all from proceeds earned from its Annual Garden and House Tours, 2011.

1911-1919* First Meeting of the Lenox Garden Club (LGC). “Weeds”, a paper is presented. The First President is Mr. Richard Goodman. Dues: $3.00, 1911.* LGC joins the Garden Club of America (GCA). Dues: $3.50 (50 cents for GCA dues), 1913. * The Program and Plant Committees are organized. * LGC hosts GCA Annual Meeting. Dues: $5.00, 1916.* WORLD WAR I: LGC decides to devote the year to food production instead of floriculture. * LGC participates in national effort to preserve redwoods.

1920-1939* LGC organizes a community flower show in Lilac Park designed by Daniel Chester French, 1922.* LGC joins with 7 other clubs to form the Berkshire Garden Center, Stockbridge, 1934.* LGC members conceive idea of a bird sanctuary. Pleasant Valley Sanctuary is developed, 1930s.* LGC enters the New York Flower Show in Grand Central Palace and wins Blue for its “Mexican Balcony”, 1938.

1940-1959* LGC raises over $1700 to purchase Mobile Canteen Equipment and a Station Wagon for the Berkshire County Chapter American Red Cross by showing 3 Stockbridge gardens, circa 1940. * LGC opens members’ gardens to benefit World Famine Relief, 1940. * LGC seconds the purchase of Bartholomew’s Cobble in Sheffield which wins a Founders Fund Award from GCA, 1944.* WORLD WAR II: LGC participates in “Seeds for England” Project, 1940s-50s. Victory gardens abound.* LGC wins GCA Founders Fund grant to finance an expedition to Great Britain and Ireland to collect rare plants for introduction to the USA, 1952.* LGC wins a Blue Ribbon and special Horticulture commendation at the International Flower Show in NYC for its “Plymouth 1640 Garden”, 1954.* LGC wins First Premium award for a garden “Patio” in Lenox Horticultural Society Show, 1956.* LGC Members establish herb cutting garden at Berkshire Garden Center, later turned over to the Herb Associates, 1958.

LENOx GARDEN CLUB CHRONOLOGY 1960-1989

* LGC plans and dedicates Proctor Garden in Memory of Mrs. Rodney Proctor at The Berkshire Garden Center, 1960s. * LGC hosts 420 GCA Members at the GCA Annual Meeting in Lenox, 1962. * LGC participates in Lenox Bicentennial Flower Show with “1776 Lenox Homestead”, and enters a decorated pony “tub” cart in the parade, 1967.* LGC members are instrumental in saving “The Old Corner House”, Stockbridge, which later becomes the Norman Rockwell Museum, 1968. * LGC hosts the Southern New England Zone II meeting, 1968.* LGC has Annual Plant Sales at Hancock Shaker Village, proceeds for community projects, 1970s.* LGC does extensive work on organizing and clean-up of Williams River, 1970s.* LGC has massive daffodil bulb planting in Lilac Park, 1971. * LGC member, Amy Bess Miller receives National GCA Historic Preservation Award for her extensive work at Hancock Shaker Village, 1973.* LGC designs miniature room replica of Herman Melville’s study, including a miniature flower arrangement and life-size arrangement for GCA Annual Meeting, 1976. * LGC’s “A Dooryard Garden” wins two cups for excellence in horticulture and design in the New England Flower Show in Boston, 1976.* LGC publishes “Aspects of Gardening in Berkshire County”, 1976.* LGC hosts the GCA Zone 1 Meeting, 1978.* LGC sponsors the first local Daffodil Show at the Berkshire Garden Center, 1983.* LGC conceives the idea and sponsors the first Festival of Trees at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 1986. * LGC members’ cookbook Fifty Nifty Treats I, II & III, published 1970’s -1983.* LGC members have Horticultural Therapy Workshop with Kimball Farm residents, 1986.* LGC wins the GCA’s Webster Cup for excellence in design for “A Garden in Quito” exhibited at the New England Flower Show, Boston, 1987.* LGC enters New England Flower Show with a “Kitchen Window Greenhouse”, 1988.* LGC is one of three finalists and runner-up of $2500 GCA Founders Fund Award for restoration of the Red Garden at Edith Wharton’s “The Mount”, 1989.