Recent news

FROGS President Linda Nordstrom announced that FROGS 2025 Annual Appeal will go towards enhancing and expanding the Children’s Garden located behind the Horticultural Center. Your contributions to the year-end appeal will help create a more engaging outdoor educational space where children and families can play, discover, and learn together. Read the announcement.

Green Spring is seeking volunteers to be gardeners, front desk greeters, and children’s program assistants. Volunteers will gain new skills, make new friendships, and participate in educational opportunities.

Volunteers help make Green Spring a beautiful place to see and be seen!

See our Volunteer webpage for more information about these opportunities. To sign up, go to Green Spring's Fairfax County Volunteer website. There, you will find contact information and volunteer opportunities.

Located in the Horticulture Center, the shop offers a broad selection of gardening-themed gifts such as horticulture and nature books, jigsaw puzzles, and t-shirts. Also available are garden-inspired fashion accessories, decorative arts, home décor, and cards. There is also a children's area where you will find gifts for learning and creating. And remember to mention your FROGS membership to receive a 10% discount on gift shop purchases — it pays to be a FROG!  

Gift Shop Hours: Monday – Saturday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm and Sunday, noon – 4:00 pm.

Please note: Items in the shown photo may no longer be available. 

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.