About the Bellefonte Garden Club

The mission of the Bellefonte Garden Club is to promote gardening, to educate our members about gardening, and use plants and landscaping to beautify our community.

We meet monthly on the third Tuesday, usually at the Historical Library and often feature speakers on gardening topics. We also plan work sessions during the warmer weather in order to maintain the gardens under our care. Our fundraising activity is the annual Bellefonte Garden Tour. We welcome everyone interested in gardening and there is no fee to join our group.

About Gardeners:

"We belong to no cult.  We are not Nature Lovers.  We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and,light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are."
-  Louise Dickenson Rich
 

"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible:  The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden.  If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
-  Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, 1996, p. 101
 

"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
-  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings