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To join The Rhodes Hall Garden Club, please contact Laraine Evans at 404-885-7800.

About the Garden Club

The Rhodes Hall Garden Club was founded to provide leadership toward developing and maintaining garden areas on the historic grounds. The program is under the direction of Friends of Rhodes Hall, a group dedicated to bringing cultural events to the "castle on Peachtree.” The Rhodes Hall Garden Club encourages members to be hands-on in the restoration of this rare historic landscape at the Atlanta Landmark.

The Garden Club, including founding members Sherwood Forest Garden Club and Ansley Park Garden Club, helps tend a variety of period gardens as well as offers financial support.

On May 21, 2005, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Atlanta City Councilwoman Anne Fauver helped celebrate the official inauguration of the Rhodes Hall Garden Club. Mayor Franklin planted the first new tree on the property, a crepe myrtle now known as “The Mayor’s Tree.” Landscape architect Dale Jaeger presented the garden restoration plans, modeled after Mrs. Rhodes's original 1904 landscaping plan.

Membership
The Rhodes Hall Garden Club is open to anyone with an interest in gardening, and there are no dues. The Club meets four times a year for workshops, book signings, decoration of Rhodes Hall and more. A quarterly Garden Club e-newsletter will begin circulation in June 2005. For more information, please contact Laraine Evans at 404-885-7800.

Projects
Rhodes Hall Garden Club's first project is to raise funds to purchase all the plants needed for the restoration. From Spring 2005-Spring 2006, nearly 250 plants are available for "adoption." Donors will be listed as founding members of the Rhodes Hall Garden Club and Landscape Restoration in a grounds brochure. The plan includes favorite plants of the Rhodes family ranging from roses to palm trees, as well as plants popular at the turn-of-the-century. Help contribute to the garden by adopting a plant.

On May 21, 2005, Rhodes Hall Garden Club welcomed Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin to celebrate the official inauguration of the Garden Club. Mayor Franklin planted the first new tree on the property, a crape myrtle now known as “The Mayor’s Tree.” Guests enjoyed an early afternoon tea while listening to the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Also attending were Atlanta City Councilwoman Anne Fauver, Greg Paxton, president and CEO of the Georgia Trust, and Dale Jaeger, the landscape architect who created the plans for the garden restoration.
(From left:) Dale Jaeger, Greg Paxton, Anne Fauver, Mayor Franklin, Garden Club Chair Carol Chancey-Daigle and Jan Faulk-Rogers.

For more information about the Rhodes Hall Garden Club, call 404-885-7800.