The Club has maintained two gardens for over fifty years. One is located at University Park’s intersection of College Park Drive and Beatty Road while the other is located at Illini Drive and Elliot Road. As of May 2018, the newest is the Pollinator Garden located behind Monroeville Library!

To raise public awareness and encourage membership, the GCM  sponsors and attends public presentations AND field trips to discuss gardening related topics at no charge at the Monroeville Library Gallery Space or Boyce Park. See the 2019 Meeting Calendar on this website.

GCM annually supports District VII by its three active memberships on its Board of Directors. Since 2015, S. Brody has served as the District's Scholarship Chairman as well as President of the GCM. M. Backus served as Recording Secretary (2011-2014), Assistant District Director (2014-2016), District VII Director (2016-2018) and currently as Assistant DD and District Awards Chair. A. Madray now serves as District Treasurer,

The GCM supports the annual Spring Membership Tea and Fall Annual Meeting through volunteerism and via raffle and other donations as well as Trash to Treasure entries. Members also participate in GCFP educational studies in gardening and flower show school.

Members participated in planning the special and educational exhibits for the 2014 GCFP Convention held in Monroeville in April 2014, and contributed exhibits at subsequent Conventions.

(2016 – Monroeville Public Library Elevator Fund AND Helene Detwiler Scholarship Fund (Dotty York) (2015 – GCFP Scholarship Fund as part of Shirley Brody's GCFP Life Pin gift) (2014 – Monroeville Historical Society) (2013 – American Red Cross)  (2009-2012 – “Building New Hope” in Nicaragua**The Club financially supported “Building New Hope,” a 501(c)(3) organization based in Pittsburgh, PA, and Granada, Nicaragua by purchasing their products and advertising their wares. “Building New Hope” actively assists communities — primarily in El Salvador and Nicaragua — by selling fairly traded organic coffee and operating alternative schools and literacy programs for underserved and at-risk youth.  In 2008, the charity was recognized by the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy for outstanding achievement in development of resources and citizen diplomacy. View the organization's work on Youtube.)

GCM's applicant from Woodland Hills won the GCFP's "Mary Alice Wheeler Scholarship" of $1000 in 2014. 

GCM sponsored a Plum Boro senior in 2015 who won the GCFP  DOREEN DEW-KAUFMAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARD of $1,000. Although the 2015 winner re-applied in 2016, he did not win a scholarship, but applied again in 2017. Penn State Sophomore Philip Steven Mahr of Plum Boro won The Marjorie E. Hamblin Scholarship of $1,000. The District Director accepted his award at the GCFP Convention.

GCM sponsored two contests in 2016 at Divine Mercy Academy, formerly St. Bernadette's School, where Third Graders participated in the Smokey Bear Poster Contest to learn the five rules of fire prevention.  The Fifth Graders participated in a Poetry Contest themed "Bees, Butterflies and Me " in 2016,   "Let It Grow" (2017), and "Pop Goes the Seed" (2018) and "Adventures in My Garden" (2019. Fifth Graders also competed in the Youth Sculpture Contest 2017 and 2019 (see site's sidebars).