About the Bellefonte Garden Club

The Bellefonte Garden Club is a civic group of passionate gardeners whose mission is to promote gardening in our community, educate our members in gardening and beautify Bellefonte with plants and landscaping. Founded in 1995 and celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the Bellefonte Garden Club's projects include the Sept. 11 Memorial Garden at the National Guard Armory on Bishop Street, the Daffodil Project, planting 111,000 daffodil bulbs in a strategic "Daffodil Drive," the Bellefonte Community Children's Garden and plantings in downtown Bellefonte and Talleyrand Park. The Garden Club is a member of the non-profit Historic Bellefonte Inc.

We meet monthly 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. 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