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The first meeting of the Bay Waveland Garden Club was held September 27, 1938 with nineteen ladies present. Shortly after the club joined the national and state organizations.
During its first year the club commenced many of the activities still continued today including the annual pilgrimage, the annual flower show and guest speakers in design, horticulture and civic activities. Over the years the club has encouraged the public to beautify the area by distributing various plants such as wisteria, oleander, crepe myrtle, Cherokee roses, and magnolia trees and has planted many of the shrubs and trees that now exist along Highway 90. It was responsible for planting many magnolias on 1-10 in the Keep Mississippi Beautiful Avenue of Magnolias. A roadside park was established on Highway 90 in Pearlington, which is being restored .
For many years the club sponsored a boy to the state Conservation Camp and still sponsors children to the annual Nature Camp and the Summer Horticultural Seminar. Anti-litter programs have won state and national awards. Many members have been active at the state, district and Coast Council levels as well as in the state and coast Flower Show Judges councils and the Landscape Critics Council. State and national awards for projects have been so numerous that no accurate record has been kept.
Bird sanctuaries have been established in both Bay St. Louis and Waveland. In 1987, the club house on Leonhard Ave was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and all pilgrimages now start with a coffee and various exhibits in this building.
The Club has continued to participate in annual flower shows held in various places, hold semi-annual litter pick-up days, plants several trees on public property each year to celebrate Arbor Day, holds an annual Pigrimage with open houses and/or gardens and sponsors Junior Gardeners and Junior activities and holds a fall outing and completes several garden therapy projects.
Programs that have been dicontinued are the Christmas decorating contest, monthly library arrangements, and the arboretum at the library. Tree registration has been given to the Historical Society.
Newer projects and activities are landscaping the fitness trail at the hospital, participation in the state program of Adopt-a-Highway, donating to the Food Pantry, working toward tree ordinances in Waveland and Bay St Louis, printing a cookbook, starting a register of large live oaks, sponsoring a Flower Show School, promoting Grandmother's Gardens, butterfly gardens, backyard	nature habitats, and awarding a monthly
commercial beautification award, restoring the Garden Center, participating in the Library's Christmas tree contest, holding a monthly plant raffle for ways and means and participating in the Walter Anderson Museum's "Art in Bloom" exhibit.
There are four Flower Show Judges, two Master Gardeners and two Landscape Critics in the membership.
Alice B. Holmes