Plant Sale
Don’t miss our annual Plant Sale held in May at Island Beach overlooking beautiful Mountain Lake! For over 50 years, the club has offered: perennials dug from members’ gardens; herbs and native plants; gardening supplies; and information about environmental topics. In order to ensure the success of this major fundraising event, all club members contribute plant material as well as their time for set-up, sale, and/or clean-up.
Flower Shows for Design & Horticulture
Our Club is proud to present flower shows on a regular basis and all members are encouraged to enter with horticulture and/or floral designs. Workshops and instruction sessions are held prior to these shows to help educate club members on Flower Shows and Flower Show Procedure. Our shows often include youth exhibits, artistic crafts, table artistry, photography, invitationals and educational displays. Members of other garden clubs and the public are encouraged to attend.
Holiday Décor at the NJ Governor’s Mansion
Since 2013 members of The Garden Club of Mountain Lakes have bee honored to decorate one of the six public rooms at Drumthwacket, the stately official residence of the Governor of New Jersey. This year, our club President will chair the entire Drumthwacket decorating project as well as lead our club’s decorating of the mansion’s foyer and the wreath in the Van Nuys Barn. The 2025 holiday décor will nod to the American Revolution to kick off the celebration of the United States Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Bringing the Classroom into the Natural World
The Junior Nature Club is an after school enrichment program for third grade students. Participants engage in a variety of garden related activities and environmental awareness programs. The Garden Club of Mountain Lakes runs each monthly program and helps students with their crafts, new discoveries and eager questions. The club meets monthly during the school year.
Borough Gardens Beautify the Community
Don’t miss our annual Plant Sale held in May at Island Beach overlooking beautiful Mountain Lake! For over 50 years, the club has offered: perennials dug from members’ gardens; herbs and native plants; gardening supplies; and information about environmental topics. In order to ensure the success of this major fundraising event, all club members contribute plant material as well as their time for set-up, sale, and/or clean-up.
The Garden Club of Mountain Lakes maintains several borough gardens throughout the Borough of Mountain Lakes. The sites become busy throughout the planting season as garden club members meet to plant, prune, transplant, mulch, and learn from one another.
Our borough gardens:
- 9/11 Memorial Garden and the Native Garden at Birchwood Lake
- Boulevard Planters at Briarcliff Road
- Grove Place Circle
9/11 Memorial Garden at Birchwood Lake
- Helen Connell Memorial Garden at Midvale Circle
- Intervale Triangle Garden at Intervale and Midvale Roads
- Mountain Lakes library front and side gardens and planters
- Tennis Court Garden at MLHS
Garden Therapy
Garden Club volunteers visit residents at Victoria Mews Assisted Living in Boonton Township. At each session, participants are invited to create a project using floral and other natural elements, and to socialize over a home-baked snack while admiring their creations.