Garden club

[5] On January 29, 1889, the Cambridge Plant Club met, drafted by-laws, and elected officers.

Many clubs took an interest in civic beautification, planting trees along public streets, maintaining flower gardens in public spaces, and campaigning against billboards, which were considered "eyesores".

[10] The Garden Club of America began to crusade against billboards in 1919.

[11] Highway beautification and roadside improvement were a focus of attention for the Garden Club of Georgia from the time of its founding in 1928.

[10] This aspect of the American garden club movement led indirectly to the flower club movement in the United Kingdom in the years after World War II, when Julia Clements and other U.K. women who had observed flower arranging activities in North America returned home and encouraged their countrywomen to engage in similar activities.

The Blue Star Memorial Highway program is an American garden club project to honor American military service members and veterans through plantings and markers adjacent to designated highways. The program was started in 1944 by the New Jersey Council of Garden Clubs to honor World War II service members and was adopted nationally in 1945 by the National Council of State Garden Clubs. It now honors service members of all time periods. [ 1 ] This garden and marker are located in Oregon.