Green-walled Garden Club

A Note from the Green-walled Garden Club (GwGC), the 2025 planning partner for the Beyond the Garden Gates Garden Tour.

Established in 1956, the Green-walled Garden Club started with 12 women who collaborated to meet the criteria of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland and the National Council. As a result of their efforts, the club joined Maryland’s 5th district in 1958.   Inspired by John Greenleaf Whittier’s famous poem, “Barbara Fritchie,” the club created the name Green-walled from a line in the poem. The club currently has 30 active members and 17 associate members.

Members of the Green-walled Garden Club actively support civic projects in Frederick City and the outlying county. They help beautify Frederick by contributing to various projects, including:

• In partnership with Catoctin Furnace Historical Society GwGC maintains a historical kitchen garden and a pollinator garden;
• Youth Garden Therapy Projects at Rock Creek School.  Rock Creek School features individualized special education programming for students with severe intellectual, physical, emotional, hearing, visual and learning disabilities from age 3 to 21;
• Adult Horticultural Therapy Projects at Homewood of Frederick;
• Financial and committee support for Flowers over Frederick, a beautification project to fund hanging baskets that adorn light posts in downtown Frederick;
• Maintenance of public gardens on 6th street;
• Landscape contributions for the Frederick County School’s Arboretum;
• Financial contribution for a beautification project at Kline Hospice House;
• In conjunction with “Friends of Baker Park” GwGC installed a park bench and tree near the tennis courts, placed plants, shrubs, and trees around the Carillon, and contributed donations to the restoration of Culler Lake.

In addition, the club participates in Celebrate Frederick’s annual Candlelight House Tour, transforming a private home into a holiday treat inside and out with fresh greens and seasonal décor. The organization is proud of the efforts and contributions they have been able to make in Frederick thus far and, with your support of the Garden Tour, hope to continue these efforts in the future.