The Raleigh Garden Club adopted this lovely park off White Oak Rd in Raleigh in 2019. We assist with quarterly park enhancement and maintenance projects. Details will be announced at meetings and in The Leaflet.

Work Dates for this year will be found in newsletter.

Finding a “Footprint” of the Raleigh Garden Club….

Club historian Erica Winston and member Laurie McDowell, who lives near The Charlotte Hilton Green Park, “discovered” it from mentions in the club archives, and learned that it needed some TLC. In 2019 the Raleigh Garden Club formally “adopted” the park as part of the Adopt-A-Park program of the Raleigh Parks Department.

We have worked with the City to remove invasive plants, trim and prune existing shrubs, plant over 400 spring bulbs, establish new plantings, and create a little oasis along White Oak Road.

Charlotte Hilton Green was a beloved member of the Raleigh Garden Club and this park was donated to the City in her honor. She was an avid birder and conservationist whose monthly column for Our State magazine was hugely influential. She was, in the words of her friend and neighbor William Joslin, “the one person in Raleigh most clearly identified with conservation of natural areas.” she and her husband bought 70 acres in the 1920s and set about creating a wonderful garden as a wildlife habitat here. Neighbors and friends were able to preserve this part of her original land as a park, and in time for her to attend the dedication ceremony.

Read all about Charlotte and her active life as a garden club member, an early conservationist, and birder who helped found Audubon NC.