Falls Church Garden Club
Upcoming events
June 14, 2025
8 a.m. - noon
Annual Plant Sale
The sale benefits local gardening organizations including The National Arboretum, W & OD wayside beds, and Green Spring Gardens along with the Falls Church Garden Club.
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Location: Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls Street​
The club meets the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m., except in September when it meets the Monday after Labor Day. The club does not meet in January, July or August. You do not need to be a resident of Falls Church city to join.
For online programs, Zoom links will be emailed to members. Nonmembers may email to request the link. Write "FCGC Zoom link" in the subject line and specify which event you wish to attend.
May 5, 2025
Hybrid meeting
Doors open 6:30 pm
Zoom opens at 7:15 pm
Program begins 7:30 pm
Gardening As We Age
The joys of gardening should still be available to all of us as we get older! While it is inevitable that we start to slow down a bit and many traditional garden activities do become more challenging, we still need our "gardening fix"! There are many ways we can adapt both the way we approach gardening in terms of techniques and tools as well as focused, physical modifications of the garden to maximize efficiency, access and enjoyment. We will discuss this wide range of considerations regarding accessibility, the use of ergonomic tools and will explore myriad options for adapting the garden to our available time and physical abilities. While the act of gardening does become different as we age, the enjoyment of our outdoor spaces continues to be both invaluable and desirable. We will discuss how to make that happen! To the younger members in our club, this information will also be valuable, so you can encourage and guide your elderly friends and family to adapt their gardening as they age.
Speaker Biography - Mark Dwyer:
Mark has been the Garden Manager at the Edgerton (WI) Hospital and Health Services healing garden for the past four years. He designed this 3-acre, all-accessible garden in 2010 and enjoys maintaining and developing it with volunteers and a small staff. Mark also operates his own landscape design and consultation business called Landscape Prescriptions by MD. Prior to these endeavors, Mark was the Director of Horticulture at Rotary Botanical Gardens in Janesville, WI for 21 years. Mark has degrees in both landscape architecture (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) and urban forestry (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point). Mark has been featured on PBS Wisconsin television and is also a frequent contributor to Fine Gardening magazine and many green industry trade publications.
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PLEASE NOTE: Although our speaker will be joining us via zoom, we will still be meeting on-site to enable our members to network with each other and to make our speaker feel welcomed. It truly will be a hybrid meeting.
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Location: The Falls Church Episcopal at 115 East Fairfax Street, Falls Church.​
April 27, 2025
Tour is 1-5 pm
Middleburg, VA
TICKETS:
$50 pre-paid
$60 day of tour
Virginia Historic Garden Week
The Falls Church Garden Club invites you to join the caravan to the Virginia Hunt Country for this tour at three historic properties: Ellerslie, a recently renovated property included in the Smithsonian's Archives to American Gardens in 2020; Benton, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, and The Pond House, a charming property with low wet areas, shady woodlands and open sunny meadows. The tour is of gardens only; the houses are not included.
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You may purchase your own tickets or contact FCGC President Candace Kiman about being part of an FCGC block. Candace also will be organizing carpooling.
Guests and non-members welcome.
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