Azalea Garden Tour Grants
For over 50 years, the Azalea Garden Tour, sponsored by Cape Fear Garden Club, has proudly returned thousands of dollars to New Hanover County. Tour profits benefit local community organizations through beautification and horticulture grants. In addition, funds support scholarships at UNCW and Cape Fear Community College and finance conservation efforts at Battery Island, a National Audubon Society sanctuary and the largest nesting site in North America for ibis, egrets and herons. Other special projects supported by the tour include garden therapy, youth gardener projects, and horticultural programs.
Grant Recipients 2017
$77,423 was Awarded on October 24, 2017
Airlie Gardens Foundation
Alliance for Cape Fear Trees
Bellamy Mansion Museum
Brigade Boys & Girls Club
Cape Fear Community College Foundation
Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity
DREAMS of Wilmington, Inc
Forest Hills Global Elementary
The International School at Gregory
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society
Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Inc.
New Hanover County Arboretum
New Hanover County Arboretum Ability Garden
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
New Horizons Elementary School
North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc.
North Carolina Sorosis
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church
Saint Mary School and the Basilica Shrine of Saint Mary
Wrightsboro Elementary School
Standing Grants
North Carolina Audubon Society Grant
Cape Fear Community College Scholarship
University of North Carolina Wilmington Scholarship
The Cape Fear Garden Club, Inc.