All About The Historic Pullman Garden Club

The Historic Pullman Garden Club was established in 1991 with three members. Currently, we number more than seventy dedicated and talented members continually working to help beautify our community. The garden club maintaines; the three circular beds in Arcade Park and Pullman Park, the Rose Garden, the Cloister Herb Garden, Fulton Field, the North Allee, and Gateway Garden. We also sponsor assorted street corner beds maintained by community residents.

The garden club hosts a reception for Pullman house tour volunteers every fall, we also prepare the May community dinner to support the Greenstone Church and in June we have our annual walk focusing on private and public gardens in Pullman. In September we host a Victorian Tea on the veranda of the Hotel Florence. Monthly meetings are held to plan projects, trips and special events. During the winter months our lecture series brings a variety of speakers to inform and amuse garden club members.

Our efforts have been well received. In 2002, the Rose Garden won third place in Mayor Daley's citywide Awards Program for Community Landscapes- Region 5. In 2004, Mayor Daley's Landscape Awards Program presented the first place award for Community Landscapes- Region 5 to the Gateway Garden. Over the years the garden club has worked with the Field Museum and the Chicago Botanic Garden to help create our Urbs in Horto - a city in a garden.

The garden club meets at the Hotel Florence on the first Tuesday of the month, meetings start at 7:30 p.m.