Garden Club Of South Carolina Inc

Programs: Educate adults by offering flower show schools & lectures, landscape design schools; flower shows and special exhibits; backyard wildlife habitats and carolina fence gardens. Educate youth by sponsoring youth to join junior garden clubs; camp wildwood (environmental week-long camp at king's mountain sc); girl scout patch program; school poster, poetry and essay contests; arbor day & earth day school programs; youth design and recyclable sculpture contest. The south carolina gardener: gcsc's official magazine published quarterly and mailed to all members. It is funded by membership dues. The magazine provides education, resources, and state networking opportunities for members on gardening, floral design, civic and environmental topics. Memorial garden: property owned by gcsc located at 1919 lincoln street, columbia, south carolina. It was deeded to gcsc in 1945 from mrs. Sarah boylston to become the first memorial garden in the united states to honor world war ii veterans. In april 2009, the garden was placed on the national register of historic places. Camp wildwood: a highly regarded high energy hands-on outdoor environmental camp sponsored by gcsc since 1954 along with the south carolina wildlife federation, the harry hampton memorial wildlife fund, and the south carolina department of natural resources. Gcsc invites rising high school sophomores to experience a week of learning about the diversity of their natural environment and building leadership qualities like self-confidence, self-reliance and independence in an outdoor setting where they acquire the knowledge and appreciation needed for the protection of our natural resources. Many students have gone on to careers in the environmental field.

hessie morrah horticultural scholarship- offers financial aid to students and encourages the study of agriculture, agronomy, botany, city planning, floriculture, forestry, horticulture, land management, landscape architecture/design, plant pathology or related majors. Barbara (babs) barnette environmental scholarship- offers financial aid to students and encourages the study of environmental control issues and allied courses.