Join the Excitement of the Tulsa Garden Club

Tulsa Garden Club Celebrate 95 Years

Oklahoma’s oldest and one of the nation’s largest garden clubs, Tulsa Garden Club celebrates its 95th Anniversary this month! 

Please join the Tulsa Garden Club for an exciting anniversary year! Here are scheduled activities for your enjoyment. 

11 a.m., Monday, October 7, 2025

Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S Peoria AVE Tulsa 74114

This event is FREE! This first meeting of the Club’s program year includes special anniversary cookies! The featured guest is Andy Fusco, horticulture director with Tulsa Garden Center—the Club’s home since 1954. The public is invited to attend to learn with Andy. Patron campaign plans and the Club's four private (very special!!) Midtown Tulsa gardens will be unveiled for the May 10, 2025, 74th Annual Garden Tour “Tulsa Heart & Soil”! Club members are asked to bring guests plus salads and desserts for post-meeting annual salad luncheon.

9 a.m. - noon, Tuesday, October 15, 2025

Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S Peoria AVE Tulsa 74114

This FREE Garden Party is the public’s opportunity to celebrate with the Tulsa Garden Club! Members with artistic talents or small businesses will sell wares, bring house plants and perennials that have been dug/divided to share/swap, offer gardening and floral design demonstrations AND bring gently-used gardening and home items for our Garden Garage Sale. The Garden Kiosk will have gardening tools and Club items for sale. A gardening education/Empowerment Partners A New Leaf will sell plants, while others are invited to share resources.

9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Tuesdays through November 26, 2024

Teaching Garden at Woodward Park/Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S Peoria AVE Tulsa 74114

Join the Tulsa Garden Club’s Generation Green team for a FREE event to help future gardeners with a rotating lineup of hands-on planting, identification, pollinator, STEM and other fun, learning nature activities! Families and groups welcome and are invited to bring quarters to feed Teaching Garden fish. Groups should schedule and reserve dates by emailing eat1@eau1eav1eaw1.

10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, May 10, 2025

Tulsa Heart & Soil is Tulsa Garden Club’s 74th Annual Garden Tour.

You don't want to mis Oklahoma's longest-running educational, charitable garden tour! This tour offers Garden Guests a self-guided peek into private interiors and gardens in midtown Tulsa. Cost to attend is $25.

This Tour will be a delight for all Garden Guests, with special treats and photo opportunities for Mother’s Day.

Sunday-Saturday, June 1-7, 2025

Various locations in greater Tulsa/Green Country

National Garden Week celebrates the love of gardening with events and activities for Members, guests, and the public (more details online and in January “What’s Growing On?”). Governor Kevin Stitt and City of Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and other local dignitaries will sign state and local proclamations at this FREE event.

About the Tulsa Garden Club

Tulsa Garden Club has worked since 1929 to advance gardening, develop home grounds, further city beautification, promote conservation of natural resources, and to cooperate with state and national organizations. Members (numbering 100-120 each year) are all ages, from diverse backgrounds, and live throughout the greater Tulsa area and surrounding counties.

2024-2025 Officers: President Cathy Covington, 1st Vice President Susan Henderson, Recording Secretary Jane Crawford, Corresponding Secretary Sharon Williams, Treasurer Phyllis Ogilvie, and Assistant Treasurer Jeri Keith. Tulsa Garden Club offers monthly gardening education programming, October through June, except January.

Members are tireless in raising funds for proceeds to benefit:

• Educational Programs open to the public on environment, gardening, landscape and design, nature, conservation and pollinator preservation including support of A New Leaf, Global Gardens, Oklahoma 4-H, Tallgrass Prairie, Up With Trees and more
• Public exhibition Horticulture and Design flower shows
• Conner Correctional Center horticulture program through Tulsa Community College Second Chance Program
• Oklahoma State University scholarships for Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Oklahoma Gardening on OETA, viewed globally via YouTube
• Tulsa Garden Center operations and programs
• Generation Green Youth Programs with Teaching Garden at Woodward Park, Monarchs on the Mountain, Oklahoma 4-H, Arbor Day, Earth Day, Scouts, STEM Alliance, Smokey Bear/Woodsy
• Owl poster contests and more

Tulsa Garden Club participates in local community events, including (not limited to) these Fall 2024 and Spring 2025:

10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Saturday, November 16, 2024

Tulsa City-County Library Generations Celebrations: Grow the Next Generation

Tulsa Garden Center and Teaching Garden at Woodward Park, 2435 S Peoria AVE Tulsa 74114

Celebrate National Family Week with hourly story times, giveaways, crafts and learning about local community partners and services.

Friday, March 6-Sunday, March 9, 2025

SageNet Expo at Expo Square, 4145 E 21st ST Tulsa 74114

Club members facilitate sessions for gardeners of all ages on the Garden Stage during the HBA's Greater Tulsa Home and Garden Show

9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, 2025

Teaching Garden and Arboretum at Woodward Park, 2435 S Peoria AVE Tulsa 74114

Join the members of the Tulsa Garden Club during Springfest! During this event, they will be hosting gardening education activities for young gardeners in the Teaching Garden at Woodward Park and presenting Club information PLUS selling tickets for the 74th Annual Garden Tour. The cost of the Tour tickets is $25.

10 a.m. - 2 p.m., April 2025 (usually Friday closest to April 22)

Chandler Park Community Center, 6500 W 21st ST Tulsa 74107

During Chandler Park Earth Day on the Hill, the Club will offer gardening education activities for young gardeners as elementary students participate in.

YEAR-ROUND

Tulsa Garden Club Rose Fund raises funds year-round to restore Tulsa Rose Garden, the region’s historic rose garden built in the 1930s. Charitable gifts and tributes (min. $35) honoring loved ones or special occasions are received from donors worldwide. Rose Fund gifts of any amount may be made via PayPal or credit card via: https://tulsagardenclub.org/rose-fund or check mailed payable to Tulsa Garden Club, PO Box 521003, Tulsa OK 74152-1003.