In 1913, a garden was planted for the YWCA on Swede Street. In 1918 trees were planted at the Gotwals and Washington Schools in Norristown in honor of veterans of the First World War. An orchard in Nouvron, France was planted in 1919 to replace one devastated during that same war. In 1935 thirty-seven trees in Elmwood Park were identified and labeled with durable markers. In 1936 a plot at the east end of Airy Street was planted. In 1945 ten dogwood trees were given to Elmwood Park in memory of Adolf Muller, an honorary member. Shrubs were grouped along the banks of Stony Creek between Main and Airy Streets. Other plantings included those at the Rough Rider Statue in Fairmount Park, at the Abington Friends Home (now the site of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library), at the school for physically handicapped children in West Norriton, at the Wild Flower Preserve at Bowman’s Hill, and on a traffic island at Johnson Highway and Markley Street. In 1973, we donated a landscaped planting at Montgomery Hospital in honor of our founder, Miss Bertha S. Harry. Our club’s project for the Bicentennial was the restoration of the eighteenth century German kitchen garden at the Peter Wentz Farmstead in Worcester. We also did a planting at the new Montgomery County-Norristown Library in 1976. A major project, culminating in 1987, consisted of researching, planning and executing the plan for a pre-1810 English kitchen garden at the restored Livezey Store, Plymouth Meeting. In the fall of 1986, we were responsible for the planting of a learning garden at Gotwals Elementary School in Norristown. We currently support gardens at the Norristown State Hospital, two schools in Norristown, and the greenhouses at Variety, the Children’s Charity of the Delaware Valley. The Elmwood Park Zoo has always been of interest to our club. In the early 1980’s we contributed to a Waterfowl Exhibit. In 1988, our 75th Anniversary Project was to formulate a landscape design and planting for the Zoo’s picnic area and entrance. Recently we gave them a rare tree to help them become an Arboretum. From 1985 to 1997 the club donated two Kwanzan cherry trees annually to the Plymouth Township headquarters grounds in appreciation for the use of their facility. In 1994 we contributed $3000 toward trees in the Azalea Garden located near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The club provided design advice and financial support in 1995 to the Historical Society of Montgomery County to restore and plant new shrubs at the tomb of Civil War hero General Winfield Scott Hancock. The tomb is located in Montgomery Cemetery in West Norriton Township. In 1999 we assisted the students of the Cole Manor School in East Norriton in creating a Butterfly Garden at the school. In 2007 we created, and continue to maintain, a Butterfly Garden at the Fairview Village Church, where we currently hold our meetings. Norristown Garden Club members volunteered their time and the club donated $1,000 to help Habitat for Humanity plant gardens at three homes in Norristown in 2001. A donation of $2,500 was sent to help with the restoration of the gardens at the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion in Harrisburg in the spring of 2001. The Norristown Garden Club donated $1,000 to the Cole Manor School in East Norriton Township that same year. The money was used to create an outdoor habitat for birds and animals displaced by a nearby housing development. In 2002, $5,000 was provided for new plantings at the wall near the Fornance Street dam in Norristown.