2010s

Developed new hardscape for Alexander-Butler Rose

Garden, donated new plantings, discontinued maintenance at the Pulaski County Courthouse and rededicated the Alexander-Butler Rose Garden

With the help of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a video highlighting “Voices, an Anecdotal History of the Little Rock Garden Club” was premiered in April 2012

Hosted a community-wide fund-raising event featuring
P. Allen Smith and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, “The Queen’s Gardener”. Todd is a noted English historical landscape designer who recently completed the restoration of Kensington Palace gardens for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Hosted the Zone IX Judges Workshop at the Capital Hotel.

Appointed By-Laws Committee to study and revise LRGC

By-Laws .

Held a GCA Flower Show “Tapestry” at the Junior League of

Little Rock Building

In 2013, the LRGC celebrated its 90th anniversary and the

Centennial anniversary of GCA with a series of commemorative events at the local and national levels. To mark this milestone in our community, a series of gifts was made including (1) native trees at the new Little Rock Children’s Library, (2) installation of landscape and garden for a new Habitat for Humanity house, (3) building and
grounds improvements at Hillcrest Hall, (4) new
benches for the Terry House Garden, and (5) a flower arranging program at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion
open to the public.

For the 2014 GCA Annual Meeting in New Orleans provided a group of twelve volunteer bus pilots.

In 2014 held a GCA Horticulture Club Flower Show entitled “Fifty Shades of Green.”

In a collaborative effort with the Arkansas Art Center sponsored a program on Italian gardens presented by Princess Georgiana Corsini of Florence.

In 2014, LRGC Communications system was revamped.
This included the development of the LRGC website so the majority of club information could be shared with members electronically.

In 2015, LRGC held a GCA Club Flower Show

Zone IX Meeting in Little Rock, 2016 “Migrate. Cultivate. Pollinate.”