Garden Club Highlights
A Brief History of the Utah Associated Garden Clubs By Geoff Ellis, UAGC Past President
Gardening has a long history in the state of Utah. One of the first things the pioneers did when they arrived in the summer of 1847 was to plant potatoes and other garden crops. By the 1900’s, both vegetable and flower gardens were widely grown, and a number of local garden clubs were established. In the fall of 1932, Grant Bowen, the landscape architect for the State
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Capitol grounds and president of
the Utah Associated Garden Clubs
the Salt Lake Flower Garden Club,
(UAGC) were established as part of
began the process of organizing the
the National Council of Garden
garden clubs into a statewide
Clubs, Inc. (now known as the
organization, and in January 1934,
National Garden Clubs).