President: Gail Zarr

Great Falls Flower Growers
Celebrating 75 Years of Education, Friendship and Community Service

Great Falls Flower Growers garden club, organized in 1933 and Federated in 1938, has over 50 members. Our meetings feature educational programs, horticulture and community project reports, and lots of comradely sharing between members. The Club meets on the first Friday of each month at 12:30 at the Coke Cola Good Eats Cafe in the Community Recreation Center in Great Falls.

The Club was awarded a $1,000 grant from the National Garden Club and the Principal Financial Group Civic Development Grant Program "Let's Go Native". There were only two grants awarded in Montana and we feel very fortunate that we were the recipients of one. We will be planting gardens, using native plants, at the new Visitors Center at the Benton Lake National Wildlife Reserve. Our sponsored Junior Garden Club, "The Sunshine Diggers", will help with the planting as soon as the ground warms up and will continue through May 2009. Luanna Maxwell, club member and junior garden club chairman, applied for the grant.

Christmas Tea and Thee
Victorian Era Holiday Tea
December 4, 2008 at the
First Presbyterian Church ~ Social Hall
1315 Central Avenue ~ 1:00 - 4:00pm

The Club is very active in the community;our members -.
  • Maintain the Four Seasons Garden at the Public Library and the Butterfly Garden at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art;
  • Provide Benefis Hospital Gift of Life Cancer Centers with beautiful floral arrangements;
  • Donate nonperishable food items to the food bank and warm hats, gloves and mittens to Helping Hands;
  • Plant bulb gardens around the statue in Paris Gibson Park and the flower barrels at the Visitor Center;
  • Host an annual birthday party at the Great Falls Senior Citizens Center;
  • Assist the Campfire Girls Club by helping them decorate holiday wreaths; and
  • Sponsor a Junior Garden Club, the Sunshine Diggers, supervised by Luanna Maxwell and Bev Knoll.

    • This year the Great Falls Flower Growers and the Rainbow Garden Club worked together to purchase and install a Veterans Blue Star Memorial Marker. The Marker was dedicated on May 19, 2007 and placed in Veterans Memorial Park, near the Montana Veterans memorial.

    The Club enjoys hosting flower shows to provide their members and the public with an outlet for creative floral design. Below are pictures from the St. Patrick's Day Miniature flower show and a show entitled "All Around the World" hosted with the Rainbow Garden Club.


    General club meetings are held September through June on the first Friday of each month. Most of these consist of educational and entertaining programs, horticulture and project reports, a luncheon, club business and, of course, spending quality time with friends. We have a Garden Tour in July and a Picnic in August. Because we have become an integral part of the Great Falls community fabric, the Cascade County Historical Society has accepted our records, scrap books and momentos to become part of the areas' history. The information is there for everyone to read and enjoy at 422 2nd Street South in Great Falls. If you are interested in joining the club, please contact our Membership Chairman, Nelone Nilsen, at 866-3297. Our membership is open throughout the year.

    Proceeds from our Christmas Tea fund raiser benefit the club's $500 college scholarship which is awarded to a Montana college student majoring in a field related to agriculture, forestry, horticulture or landscape design. See the application form here. Scholarship Information -- Contact Doris Pascal, 623 40th St. South, Great Falls, MT 59405 (phone 452-4872) before February 15, 2009 for qualifications, requirements and an application form.