Southern Pines Garden Club Scholarship

Southern Pines Garden Club Scholarship is awarded to one first-year and one second-year Landscape Gardening student. Students are selected based on financial need, with emphasis based on academic promise. Prefer at least one NC resident, and student must maintain at least a 2.0 GPA.

The Southern Pines Garden Club was founded in 1948 by Mrs. Elizabeth “Buffie” Ives and her friends with the purpose of giving horticultural support to the new Shaw House restoration. Twenty “knees in the dirt” gardeners who were well connected to our town were asked to join the organization. At the newest schools, the town hall, along the railroad tracks and along major town right of ways, trees and flowering plants were installed by club members. This work continued for decades and today these mature trees and shrubs comprise our exceptional and well-known downtown landscape. Presently the Club has 36 members dedicated to continuing the work of its founders. The yearly tour of homes and gardens in April provides funds for scholarships for horticulture students at Sandhills Community College as well as professional lectures and local perseveration projects.