In the past we have had a wide variety of trips, near and far. They recently took us to the Washington National Cathedral for their Angel Tour and Tea. They have also included spring wildflower walks, lead by Claudia Thompson-Deahl, RA's Environmental Resource Manager. Several trips have taken us into D.C., including a trip to see the exhibit "East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art" at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery, a visit to the orchid exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, and a trip to the U.S. Botanic Garden on the National Mall. We have taken tours of the American Horticultural Society's River Farm Headquarters gardens, the Meadowlark Botanical Garden and Surreybrooke Garden in Middletown, MD. Other trips have taken us to the Richmond and Philadelphia Garden Shows, Oatlands Plantation for their Holiday Tour and Tea, the Ladew Topiary Gardens, Winterthur and The Glenview Mansion and Gardens at the Rockville, MD . These trips ususally include a lunch stop, occasionally a winery visit and are a wonderful opportunity to enjoy each others company while visiting gardening sites of interest.

December usually brings a holiday decorations workshop of some kind. They are very popular and provide a wonderful time to gather with club friends for a holiday activity. Each year several workshops are held to teach various crafts or provide a platform to produce items for fund raising. Previous workshops have included Holiday wreaths, centerpieces and natural ornaments, and pressed flower note cards. Please visit the Calendar page to check dates of future workshops. Workshops are for members only.

The Reston Garden Club has adopted Bowman Towne Drive in the area around the Reston Regional Library. Please visit our Calendar page to check on the date of the next trash pick-up.

The Reston Garden Club has a long history of supporting and funding wildflower beautification in Reston. We have contributed to wildflower plantings along highway medians and roadsides and at the Natural Center. Civic beautification activities for the next club season will be listed on the Calendar page as soon as information is available.

As part of our civic outreach activities, the Reston Garden Club has partnered with several Reston schools to develop a teaching gardens on school grounds.

Tours

In June 2006 the Reston Garden Club and the Reston Association co-sponsored the second Reston Garden Tour. The tour featured a dozen gardens, and included large and small gardens, sun and shade gardens, gardens with Asian themes, cottage gardens and more. All proceeds from the tour ($3,500) were donated to Nature House.

Copyright © 2009 The Reston Garden Club All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording means or otherwise without prior written permission of the Reston Garden Club. Permission granted for use by search engines and other services which do not and do not intend to charge for pages from this site.