2008-2017: Forest Park

Leadership and funding to rehabilitate, enhance, and preserve historic Forest Park for the future use and enjoyment of all residents. The Forest Park Project Board, a citywide, public-private partnership and an Illinois not-for-profit corporation was created in 2010 to oversee the implementation of the plan. Construction and planting were completed in 2015.                                                                                       

2006-Global Warming Conference

Lake Forest Garden Club was the lead organizer of a Global Warming Conference underwritten by the Chicago Council of the Garden Club of America. The daylong symposium, open to the public, featured an international panel of leaders in the field of climate change. The keynote speaker was Ross Gelbspan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Washington Post.

2006-Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show                                     

LFGC is the first member club of The Garden Club of America to apply, and to be invited to exhibit a show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Ravine Garden: Gift of the Glacier. The club was awarded a Royal Horticultural Society Silver Gilt Medal and a Garden Club of America Special Public Relations Award.

Since 1974, Civic Awards have been presented, when merited, to local businesses and institutions for excellence in landscape design/maintenance and conservation.

From 1938-1998, the Lake Forest Garden Club organized nature and conservation classes for school children. The Nature Camp later became part of the programming of the Lake Forest Recreation Center. 

1997-2000: Historic Market Square                                                                        

Restoration and rehabilitation through a public/private partnership with the City of Lake Forest to restore the hardscape and landscape of the first planned shopping center in the United States. Support continues with four seasons of container plantings, annually since 2000.   

1994-Landscape Design Fund                                                                          

Established to supplement city plans by providing funds for outstanding landscape architects for City of Lake Forest projects. Rodney Robinson, historic preservation landscape architect from Wilmington, Delaware, designed plans for the restoration and rehabilitation of Lake Forest’s Historic Market Square and Stephen Stimson, noted landscape architect from Cambridge, Mass whose plan for Forest Park is currently in the implementation phase. 



1986-1988: Forest Park Beach                                                                          

Restoration and rehabilitation on the shores of Lake Michigan; shoreline conservation, restoration, recreational development, landscape design and planting.

Education and Conservation

Allendale Association

           Green House Garden Project

           Horticulture Program

           Butterfly Sanctuary & Pollinator Garden  

Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods

           Naturaleza Salud Y Vida Program

           Trail Tales Program

Chicago Botanic Garden - Green Youth Farm Program

Chicago Botanic Garden – Rice Plant Conservation Science Center

Chicago Botanic Garden - Lenhardt Rare Book Collection

Chicago Cultural Center

City of Lake Forest - Dickinson Hall

Conserve Lake County

Elawa Farm - Greenhouse Campaign

Forest Park Project

Friends of the Chicago River

Gardening Together

Garfield Park Conservatory

GCA General Scholarship Fund

GCA Second Century Endowment Campaign

Lake Bluff Garden Club – Sunrise Park Project

Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society

Lake Forest Library

Lake Forest Open Lands - Center for Conservation Leadership

Lake Forest Open Lands - Prairie Habitat Restoration

North Chicago Community Partners – Neal Academy Garden Science

Openlands Chicago – Lakeshore Preserve

Ragdale – Landscape Restoration

Save the Redwoods League - Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Student Conservation Association

Waukegan School District

Wetlands Initiative



Civic Beautification

City of Lake Forest - Beach Road Restoration

City of Lake Forest - Forest Park

Garden at Elawa Farm

GCA Centennial Project - Central Park – Landscape Restoration

Gorton Community Center - Master Landscape Plan

Lake Forest College - Glen Rowen House – Terrace and Garden

Lake Forest Hospital

Market Square – Lake Forest

The Junior Garden Club of Lake Forest - Belvedere Garden

Memberships

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chicago Botanic Garden

Chicago Openlands

The Garden Club of America

The Garden Clubs of Illinois

Elawa Farm

Lake Bluff Open Lands

Lake Forest Open Lands

Lake Forest Preservation Foundation

LF/LB Historical Society