Unique gifts for everyone on your list!
Need gardening tools to get your plants in the garden? Visit the Green Spring Gardens Gift Shop!
In addition to gardening tools, the Garden Gift Shop, located in the Horticulture Center also offers a broad selection of horticulture and nature books, t-shirts, and other gardening-themed gifts. Garden-inspired fashion accessories, decorative arts, home décor, and cards also are available.
Gift Shop Hours: Monday – Saturday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm and Sunday, noon – 4:00 pm.
And it pays to be a FROG! FROGS members enjoy a 10% discount on gift shop purchases.
Please Note: Fairfax County no longer requires masks in county government facilities. This includes Green Spring Gardens. While no longer required, we support mask use by employees and visitors who choose to continue wearing them. Please be respectful of individual choices.
FROGS love Green Spring Gardens! The outpouring of heartfelt sentiments for Green Spring on the occasion of the gardens' 50th anniversary is captured in this short video wish montage.
Thank you, Green Spring staff and volunteers, for all you do to make Green Spring such a special place to so many. Here's to the next 50 years!
Looking for more to celebrate about Green Spring? Check out this Fairfax County Parks Plus video feature, Green Spring Gardens is Golden.
And don't miss Green Spring's 50th Anniversary webpage for 50 reasons to love Green Spring and more!
Two FROGS members who are familiar faces at Green Spring will be honored at the Fairfax County Park Authority's Elly Doyle Park Service Awards at a virtual awards celebration in November.
Photo at Green Spring Gardens October 2020 by FROGS member Jane Gamble
Congratulations to FROGS member Jane Gamble who will be honored with a 2020 Elly Doyle Park Service Special Recognition Award. FROGS members may recognize Jane's name as a frequent contributor to the past summer's 'little slice of Eden' garden photo-sharing program. Jane is an amateur photographer who provides professional-quality photos to the Park Authority's Public Information Office and Resource Management Division for use in the agency's communications. Her specialty is park wildlife (including Green Spring's, like the photo above!), and her photos frequently appear in the Park Authority's social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), the ResOURces newsletter, and other agency publications to promote stewardship and highlight the wealth of natural resources in the county. Her photographs have significantly increased traffic and engagement on these social media platforms. Look for her photos on FROGS Instagram and Facebook sites, too.
FROGS also congratulates member Mary Alice Huybrechts, one of just nineteen Fairfax County Park Authority volunteers who will be honored as Outstanding Volunteers at the 2020 Elly Doyle Park Service Awards celebration. Mary Alice is being honored for outstanding service to Green Spring Gardens. In addition to her volunteer work with FROGS and Green Spring, she formerly provided excellent volunteer service as a Green Spring Extension Master Gardener for almost ten years.
Each year, the Park Authority honors outstanding volunteers at the Elly Doyle Awards Ceremony. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year's ceremony will be virtual, streamed live on November 20, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. If you would like to join the celebration, please RSVP via SurveyMonkey by November 13, 2020. Download the invitation listing all honorees here.
Just as the 2020 gardening season burst forth COVID-19 changed everything. FROGS launched 'little slice of Eden' to help keep gardeners connected. Weekly e-mails featured collages of FROGS members' home garden photos.
Revisit the past spring and summer with 'a summer of Eden', our season finale video that showcases one photo from each of the 120+ contributors.
Scroll down to see all 20 'slice of Eden' collages.
THANK YOU!
- to the 120+ contributing photographer/gardeners
- for the many expressions of thanks and encouragement
- and special thanks to Natalie Varker, the talented volunteer high-school student in Tuckahoe, NY, for producing the beautiful video!
(click image below to view video)
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JULY 3, 2020
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AUGUST 4, 2020
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
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In the 50 years since Michael and Belinda Straight gifted Green Spring to the Fairfax County Park Authority, this gift has become, as Mr. Straight envisioned, "a thriving center for all who love gardening and revere our past." Though Green Spring's anniversary celebration has been postponed, it is obvious that the gardens have become indispensable to our community. Our June 2020's "car count" topped June 2019's by 1,000 cars!
What's happened at Green Spring since March?
- Fairfax County continues protecting employee health and jobs. Green Spring and Fairfax County Park Authority staff are working toward reopening buildings with utmost concern for the safety of staff, volunteers, and guests (FCPA updates). In September, the Green Spring buildings will reopen for scheduled programs only.
- Front desk staff Lisa Jackson, Sandra Knapp, Pauline Perry, and Karen Aftergut cheerfully take phone orders for Plant Shop finds so lovingly tended by gardener Alda Krinsman. Curbside pickup is so popular we plan to continue it post -COVID! The Plant Shop also has reopened to walk-in customers on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Thanks to you a recent Plant Shop facelift beautifully brought together FROGS funding, staff creativity, and Maintenance Chief Frank Jankauskas's handiwork. Be sure to notice Frank's beautiful new gate!
- Gardens grow, oblivious to operational pause! Adult Education Program Assistant Laura Strecker shared this insider view of how a skeleton Green Spring staff pitched in as spring burst forth.
A final thank you: Your generous support for the 2019 Annual Appeal's "Smart Water" irrigation system is literally a plant lifesaver this summer. There is no way the limited number of staff and volunteers could keep our gardens alive without it.
We are all navigating new waters. We miss you and hope weekly "Little Slice of Eden" emails of FROGS members' home garden photos help you stay connected.
No one can predict when or how a new normal settles in, but we will keep you posted as re-opening continues. Because of your loyal friendship and support, Green Spring Gardens remains here for you in these stressful times.
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