Hillside Garden Club Awards
Garden Club of Virginia Common Wealth Award
Established at the Annual Meeting, May 1979 to provide an annual grant to promote projects in the interest of conservation, beautification, horticulture, preservation and education. The two word name Common Wealth was chosen to describe the "wealth" that is "common" to all Virginians.
Common Wealth Award, 2016
$8,000 was awarded to Hillside Garden Club to establish the Academy Center of the Arts
Tree Garden, in collaboration with the Academy Center of the Arts.
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Common Wealth Award, 2009
$10,000 was awarded to Hillside Garden Club for the continuing restoration of the historic Anne Spencer Garden.
Common Wealth Award, 1996
$5,000 was awarded to Hillside Garden Club to build a gatehouse for the Old City Cemetery.
Common Wealth Award, 1985
$6,000 was awarded to Hillside Garden Club to complete the restoration of the Anne Spencer Garden.
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Garden Club of Virginia Horticulture Award of Merit
Established in 1960 for individual members of the Garden Club of Virginia who have achieved significant accomplishments in horticulture, both personally and in the community at large.
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Mrs. Sonya Wodicka, 2023
Mrs. Kaye Moomaw, 2018
Dr. Janet G. Hickman, 2016
Mrs. Matthew L. Lloyd, 2014
Mrs. Kenneth W. Wright, 2012
Mrs. Allen E. Johnson, 1998
Mrs. Wallace G. McKenna, Jr., 1996
Mrs. Robert L. Galloway, 1985
Mrs. Kenneth S. White, 1984
Mrs. Henry M. Sackett III, 1980
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Howell, 1977
Mrs. Paul E. Sackett and Mrs. J. Barnett Hodges, 1973
Mrs. Elias Richards, Jr., 1970
Mrs. E.A. Harper, 1962
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Garden Club of Virginia Bessie Bocock Carter Conservation Award
​With gratitude for the gracious memorial from her family, the Garden Club of Virginia established the Bessie Bocock Carter Conservation Award in 2009. The award’s intent is to fund implementation of a conservation project that will serve as a catalyst for community action.
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Bessie Bocock Carter Conservation Award, 2025
$12,000 was awarded to Hillside Garden Club to build interpretive signage at Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Nature Center.
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Bessie Bocock Carter Conservation Award, 2021
Awarded to Hillside Garden Club & Lynchburg Garden Club for the establishment of pollinator beds
on the Lynchburg Expressway, a project of Blue Ridge Conservation.
Garden Club of Virginia Massie Medal for Distinguished Achievement
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The oldest and most prestigious award given by the Garden Club of Virginia, it was inaugurated in 1928 by Susanne Williams Massie during her presidency and was given by her until her death in 1952. Since that time it has been given by the club in her memory.
Massie Medal for Distinguished Achievement, 1989
Awarded to Mrs. Kenneth S. White for meritorious service