RGC Community Projects

These are photos from three community projects that our club undertook during November 2021, the first was the North Oak Cliff Library project. The first four photos are the before photos of the parking lot flower beds. There is also an image of the iris in bloom in Feb. 2021 just before Winter Storm “Uri”. The balance of five photos is from the workday in November where volunteers thinned the iris and replanted them in all of the flower beds. The next group of photos is from the Hampton Illinois Library Courtyard Project and the third group is from the Rainbow Garden Club North Texas Garden at the Dallas Heritage Village Phase 1. We are accepting donations for Phase 5. Click on the link to go to our RGC Donations page.

Photos from Feb. 2023

  • Hampton Illinois library – courtyard
  • Hampton Illinois library courtyard
  • Hampton Illinois Library courtyard
  • Hampton Illinois Library courtyard
  • RGC Garden – Old City Park
  • RGC Garden – Old City Park
  • North Oak Cliff Library pocket gardens – Red Devons in bloom
  • North Oak Cliff Library pocket gardens – Red Devons in bloom
  • North Oak Cliff Library flag pole garden

Photos from Phase 1 – November & December 2021

North Oak Cliff Library Parking Lot – pocket gardens

  • The iris in bloom in Feb. 2020 before Winter Storm “URI”
  • Before the project began
  • Before the project began
  • Before the project began
  • Another bed of iris
  • Iris surrounding the flag pole
  • Another bed filled with iris
  • Iris rhizoms spread thru the beds
  • The volunteers once we were done

Hampton Illinois Library – Courtyard Project – November 2021

  • Another view of a lifeless flower bed
  • One of the beds with one living plant
  • A view of the other bed
  • The volunteers for this project.
  • Volunteers at work planting
  • Volunteers digging in the beds
  • Working on the labels so the plants can be identified
  • Volunteers digging and planting bulbs and perennials in the beds
  • A finished bed
  • A finished bed

Old City Park – November 2021 and December 2021

  • Phase 1 planted
  • Phase 1 complete
  • Spreading mulch in Phase 2
  • Wheel barrow and weed block
  • Volunteers digging and planting
  • Vounteers planting bulbs
  • Volunteers
  • Volunteers making the final touches
  • Digging and planting bulbs
  • Top soil and compost
  • Weed block
  • 15 bags of cypress mulch
  • Bulbs, supplies and labels

Photos from Phase 2 Old City Park – March 2022

  • March 2022 – adding mulch to the walkway

Photos from Phase 3 – Old City Park June 2022

Phase 4 – Cleaning up after the flood on Labor Day weekend.

  • Damaged building after the flood in Sept. 2022
  • Ox Blood Lilies in bloom after the flood
  • Mulch walkway was partly washed away.
  • Most plants did fine after 5 feet of water.
  • Lavender struggling after all the rain.
  • Our bench was badly damaged. This is a replacement bench.

Phase 5 – Planting more bulbs and perennials this fall until it gets too cold to work outside.