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Sustaining Membership
"I decided to become a Sustaining Member of the Rochester Civic Garden Center because it is an easy way to support an organization that I believe in. I like the convenience, and that RCGC receives a reliable amount of income on a regular basis" --RCGC long-time member Art Trimble
More information here.
The Plantsmen of Rochester Parks
The Plantsmen of Rochester Parks is a wonderful history of the men who created our local park system. Copies of this book can be purchased at Warner Castle for $16.95 plus tax, for a total of $18.31, or online here for $18.31(including tax) plus $3.32 shipping for a total of $21.63. Proceeds benefit the Rochester Civic Garden Center’s endowment fund in memory of Alvan R. Grant.
What a Deal!
Use your RCGC membership card to save 10% on your purchases at
and 5% at these garden stores:
- Bristol's Garden Center
- Broccolo Garden Center
- Clover Nursery & Garden Center
- Grandpa's Nursery & Garden Center
- Grossmans Garden & Home
- Sara's Garden Center
- The Garden Store at Ted Collins Tree & Landscape
- Van Putte Gardens
- Wayside Garden Center
Offer does not apply to sale and promotional items.
Rochester Civic Garden Center
5 Castle Park
Rochester, NY 14620
Phone: 585-473-5130
Fax: 585-472-8136
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 9am-4pm
Library Hours: Regular RCGC hours as well as 9:30-12:30 on the 3rd Saturdays of January through June.
RCGC is open to the public.
Reservations requested for groups of 8 or more. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult
RCGC Periodical Listing
| Periodical | Beginning |
Ending |
| African Violet Magazine | Jan. 1978, Vol. 31 | Jan. 1998, Vol. 51 |
| Alpine Garden Society Bulletin | Mar. 1961, Vol. 29 | Dec. 1965, Vol. 33 |
| American Butterflies | Feb. 2000, Vol. 8 | Current |
| American Fern Journal | 1976, Vol. 66 | 1981, Vol. 71 |
| The American Gardener – includes the following: | ||
| The National Horticulture Magazine | Jan. 1936, Vol. 15 | Dec. 1959, Vol. 38 |
| The American Horticulture Magazine | Jan. 1960, Vol. 39 | Dec. 1971, Vol. 50 |
| The American Horticulturist | Jan. 1972, Vol. 51 | Dec. 1995, Vol. 74 |
| The American Gardener | Jan. 1996, Vol. 75 | Current |
| American Rhododendron Society | Winter 1985, Vol. 39 | Fall 1988, Vol. 42 |
| American Rose Annual | 1920, Vol. 5 | 1938, Vol. 23 |
| American Rose Magazine | Jan/Feb 1941, Vol. IV | Current |
| Arnold Arboretum (Bulletin of Popular Information) | April 1927, Vol. 1 | Dec. 1940, Vol. VIII |
| Arnoldia | Nov. 1945, Vol. 5 | 2002, Vol. 61 |
| Avant-Gardener | July 1969, Vol. 1 | Current |
| Backyard Living | Jan/Feb 2004 | Current |
| The Begonian | Apr. 1960, Vol. XXVII | May 1984, Vol. LII |
| Better Homes & Gardens | Aug. 2001, Vol. 79 | Jan. 2002, Vol. 80 |
| Birds & Blooms | Feb/Mar 2004 | Current |
| Brooklyn Botanical Garden Plants and Gardens | Apr. 1945, Vol. 1 | Current |
| Brooklyn Botanical Garden Newsletter | Winter 1983 | |
| Brooklyn Botanical Garden News | 1986, Vol. 1 | Current |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Records | Nov/Dec 1931, Vol. 20 | Dec. 1965, Vol. 53 |
| Bulletin of the American Rock Garden Society – see under Rock Garden Quarterly | ||
| Butterfly Gardener | Spring 2001, Vol. 6 | Winter 2003, Vol. 8 |
| Butterfly Gardener’s Quarterly | Summer 1998, No. 17 | Summer 2000, No. 25 |
| Cactus & Succulent Bulletin | June, 1941 | March, 1942 |
| Cactus & Succulent Journal | July, 1929, Vol. 1 | Jan/Feb 1977, Vol. 49 |
| The Conservationist | Jul/Aug 1982, Vol. 37 | May/Jun 1992, Vol. 46 |
| Cornell Plantations | April 1969, Vol. 25 | Dec. 1996, Vol. 51 |
| Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries Newsletter | 1972, No. 1 | Current |
| Country Life in America | Nov. 1901, Vol. 1 | Oct. 1908, Vol. 14 |
| The English Garden | Feb/Mar 2002 | Current |
| The Family Handyman – see under Flower Grower | ||
| Fine Gardening | May/June 1988 | Current |
| Flower & Garden | Jan. 1959, Vol. 3 | Jul. 2002, Vol. 46 |
| Flower Grower – includes the following: | ||
| Flower Grower | Jan. 1929, Vol. XVI | Dec. 1965, Vol. 52 |
| The Home Garden (Flower Grower) | Jan. 1966, Vol. 53 | Mar. 1972, Vol. 59 |
| Natural Gardening | Apr. 1972, Vol. 59 | Apr. 1973, Vol. 60 |
| The Family Handyman | June 1973, Vol. 23 | Dec. 1973, Vol. 23 |
| Garden | Jan. 1977, Vol. 1 | Dec. 1990, Vol. 14 |
| Garden Design | Apr. 1983, Vol. 2 | Current |
| Garden Gate | Feb/Mar 1995, Vol. 1 | Current |
| Garden Journal | Jan. 1951, Vol. 1 | Dec. 1976, Vol. 26 |
| The Garden Letter | Fall 2002, Vol. 6 | Current |
| The Gardener | Mar/Apr 2001, Vol. 60 | Mar/Apr 2003, Vol. 62 |
| Gardeners Chronicle | Jan. 1958, Vol. 143 | June 1973, Vol. 173 |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle of America | Dec. 1937, Vol. 41 | Dec. 1950, Vol. 54 |
| Gardens Illustrated | Apr/May 1993, Vol. 1 | Nov. 2004, Vol. 97 |
| The Gloxinian | Jan. 1961, Vol. 11 | Jan. 1977, Vol. 27 |
| The Green Scene | Mar/Apr 1974, Vol. 2 | Current |
| Handbook for Selecting Roses | 1967 | 2003 |
| Herb Companion | Feb/March 1990, Vol. 2 | Current |
| The Herb Grower | Spr. 1973, Vol. XXVI | Winter 1981, Vol. 35 |
| The Herb Quarterly | Apr. 1979, No. 1 | Apr. 1999, Vol. 81 |
| Herb Society of America | Fall 2002, Vol. 6 | Current |
| The Herbarist | 1936, Vol. 2 | 2003, Vol. 69 |
| The Home Garden (Walter E. Thwing, publisher) | Jan. 1943, Vol. 1 | Dec. 1953, Vol. 22 |
| The Home Garden (Flower Grower) – see under Flower Grower | ||
| Horticulture | Jan. 1940, Vol. XVIII | Current |
| The Hosta Journal | Spring 1999, Vol. 30 | 2003, Vol. 34 |
| Ikebana International | Spring 1959 | July, 1984 |
| International Bonsai | 1996, Vol. 18 | Current |
| International Lilac Society (pipeline) | Jan. 1975, Vol. 1 | Dec. 1977, Vol. III |
| International Lilac Society (Lilac Newsletter) | Jan. 1978, Vol. IV | Dec. 1988, Vol. XIV |
| International Lilac Society Quarterly Journal (Lilacs) | Spring 1981, Vol. 18 | Current |
| Journal of the Bromeliad Society | Mar/Apr 1969, Vol. IX | Nov/Dec 1979, Vol. XXIX |
| Journal of the NY Botanical Garden | Nov. 1932, Vol. XXXIII | Dec. 1950, Vol. LI |
| Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society | Jan. 1955, Vol. LXXX | Dec. 1974, Vol. XCIX |
| Landscape Architecture | Jul. 1996, Vol. 86 | Mar. 2002, Vol. 92 |
| Light Garden | Jan/Feb 1976, Vol. XIII | Nov/Dec 1980, Vol. XVII |
| Lilacs (proceedings) | 1974, Vol. 2 | 1986, Vol. 15 |
| My Garden | July 1937, Vol. 11 | Dec. 1951, Vol. 43 |
| The National Gardener | Jan. 1949, Vol. XX | Nov/Dec 1990, Vol. 61 |
| National Gardening | Sept. 1989, Vol. 12 | May/June 2000, Vol. 23 |
| The National Horticulture Magazine – see under The American Gardener | ||
| Natural Gardening – see under Flower Grower | ||
| New England Wildflowers | Fall/Win 1998, Vol. 2 | Spr/Sum 2000, Vol. 4 |
| The North American Pomona – see Pomona | ||
| Organic Gardening | Jan. 1986, Vol. 33 | Current |
| Pappus | Winter 1990, Vol. 9 | Summer 2001, Vol. 20 |
| People Places Plants | Late Sum. 2001, Vol. 6 | Current |
| Pomona (The North American Pomona) | Oct. 1967, Vol. 1 | Oct. 1989, Vol. XXII |
| Popular Gardening | Mar/Apr 1950, Vol. 1 | Nov/Dec. 1965, Vol. 16 |
| Rochester Civic Garden Center Bulletin | Sept. 1945, Vol. 1 | Current |
| Rock Garden Quarterly – includes the following: | ||
| Bulletin of the American Rock Garden Society | July 1953, Vol. 11 | Fall, 1994, Vol. 52 |
| Rock Garden Quarterly | Winter 1995, Vol. 53 | Current |
| Upstate Gardeners’ Journal | Spring 1995, Vol. 1 | Current |
| Water Gardening | Mar/Apr 2000, Vol. 5 | Current |
| Your Garden & Home | Oct. 1947, Vol. 1 | Jul. 1950, Vol. 4 |
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