About Chippewa Garden Club
Formed in 1949, the goals of the Chippewa Garden Club’s founding members continue to be our same goals today:
For more than 75 years, our goals continue to be “to cultivate beauty through gardening, to study the fine art of flower design, to aid in the protection of native plants and wildlife, to encourage civic beautification, and to provide educational opportunities.”
Since our founding, we have won numerous awards for our flower shows and civic projects. Eight times, the club has been awarded the prestigious “Garden Club of the Year” by the Garden Club of Ohio (GCO). The first award was given in 1971, and the most recent award was in 2018.
Chippewa Garden Club is a member of:
- The Cleveland District of the Garden Club of Ohio
- The Central Atlantic Region of the State Garden Clubs, Inc.
- National Garden Clubs, Inc.
- Holden Forests and Gardens (and the Cleveland Botanical Garden)
Community Service Projects
We are active in several community service projects for our communities, including:
- Providing Arbor Day and Earth Day education to elementary schools and the community
- Donating funds to Garden Club of Ohio, Inc., toward scholarships for eligible students
- Maintaining the herb garden at the Squire Rich Historical Museum in Brecksville
- Providing garden- and floral-design-related programs for children at the community library
- Establishing and mentoring community and school gardens
- Providing enrichment programs through nature for seniors at Broadview Heights Community Center
- Staging a flower show biennially as a gift to the community, through which the public can learn and share in the enjoyment of gardening and floral design.
Garden Club Executive Board:
- President – Lynne Evans
- Vice Presidents – Debbie Schuckert, Kelly Manocchio
- Secretary – Susan Porter
- Treasurer – Kathy Habib
- Finance – Mary Jane Maloney and Lynne Evans
- Historian – Margaret DeWolf
Our Affiliations:
Chippewa Garden Club belongs to National Garden Clubs, Inc. (NGC) and the Garden Club of Ohio (GCO). We participate in their activities and programs and share information via websites and Facebook pages.
Garden Club of Ohio (GCO):
Former President Kathy Wagner selected native plants as her theme for her presidency. She suggested, “Let’s Garden with Ohio Natives.” Chippewa has been doing that for several years! Both community gardens that we have been involved in creating and maintaining have pollinator gardens growing along nicely with the vegetable beds. Both gardens are also Monarch Way Stations. Chippewa Garden Club members know that growing to support pollinators, including butterflies, is really native plant gardening.
Our incoming president, Debra Turner, has chosen her theme as “Plant A Future.” She will elaborate as she enters her presidency.
National Garden Clubs, Inc.:
Donna Donnelly has begun her presidency in 2025, serving as the 49th National Garden Clubs, Inc. president, promoting her theme of “PLANT AMERICA, for the next 100 years!”, with projects including “PLANT AMERICA, KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL” and “PLANT AMERICA red, white, and blue to celebrate America’s 250th birthday!”
Chippewa’s community gardening programs, both for adults (Greene Acres Community Garden) and children (Recess Gardening), are right in line with those efforts. Watch and see how we expand those efforts to support more gardens in our communities.
Chippewa Garden Club
2 Community Dr, Brecksville, OH 44141
A 501c3 charitable organization