FOUNDERS’ GARDEN
The BMW CCA Foundation is proud to launch our Founders’ Garden. Conveniently located beside our Museum, this Garden serves as a unique place to honor special persons for their achievements or to memorialize those whom we have lost in our lives.
This Garden will provide our donors and visitors the opportunity to wander through the Garden and appreciate its natural beauty– all while supporting the charitable and philanthropic work of the Foundation.
This Garden provides an opportunity to honor a living person (tribute gift) or mark the death of a deceased loved one (memorial gift). You have wide freedom to select the person and they need not be part of the BMW CCA community to be honored.
Here are some examples, but not limited to:
- Honoring a chapter officer who is retiring;
- Memorializing a dear friend who is now departed;
- Honoring a close friend on their special birthday/anniversary;
- Celebrating the birth of a grandchild; or
- Showing appreciation to an organization or meaningful person
You have a wide variety of choices in purchasing either a living plant, bush, or flowers, or a fixed structure such as a brick, boulder, or bench to constitute your commemorative gift.
If you prefer, you may make a gift towards the Garden General Fund for upkeep and maintenance—with no need to make any choices—to help the Founders’ Garden thrive in the future.
Your donation includes maintenance—irrigation and fertilizer—for the first five (5) years. If the plant dies within that time, it will be replaced at no cost to you. If it dies after that time, you will be given the first opportunity to replace it or allow another donor to do the same. Obviously, stones, boulders or bricks need no guarantee and are your everlasting gift to the Garden.
For a small additional fee ($100), you may also order a plaque to commemorate your sentiments which will be positioned at your chosen plant or stone monument. If you so designate, the Foundation will also notify your honoree, or their family, of your very thoughtful gift.
These tribute or memorial donations offer you a thoughtful way to celebrate or pay tribute to a loved one while supporting the mission of the Foundation of “Saving Lives, Saving History.”
The Foundation is committed, along with its generous donors and sponsors, to teaching teens to becoming safer drivers through its Tire Rack Street Survival Program. Trained coaches volunteer their time to put teens through real-life driving exercises to enable them to handle dangerous driving situations.
Our Museum, {“The Ultimate Driving Museum”} founded in 2017 enables the Foundation to “bring our BMW Archives to life” by sharing them with our fellow enthusiasts. Our Museum exhibits showcase our passion for BMW history, design, and technology throughout the ages with our displays of cars and motorcycles.
You can simply browse the plants and hardscaping in the photos below or click an area on the map to look at items available for purchase. You will also be able to create a plaque to commemorate your gift.
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Section: 6 Quantity: 7 Letter: BB Donation: $845Description:
A luxurious and rich boundary plant, the Frost Proof Gardenia is a flowering evergreen that produces large, white flowers from spring all through summer and even after the first frost. The flowers measure about two- to three-inches wide while each plant can grow to four feet high and three feet wide. Your gift includes seven of these hardy evergreen plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 2 Letter: V Donation: $500Description:
The Sweet Drift Rose produces beautiful dwarf mounds of double flowers from spring through late fall adding waves of gorgeous color. This low-maintenance small-rose groundcover grows to about 1½ feet and will rebloom again and again ensuring the garden has color all season. Your gift includes seven of these colorful, elegant plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 12 Letter: O Donation: $465Description:
Pink Muhly is a native ornamental grass that provides outstanding texture to the garden with extraordinary late-season color, when delicate pink plumes completely envelop the foliage. When mature, this grass plant can grow to 48-inches high and 36-inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these unusually beautiful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 5 Quantity: 12 Letter: X Donation: $325Description:
The Carex Everillo is a dense, grass-like ornamental sedge with glistening yellow leaves with dark green edges that curl toward the ground. It provides a distinctive textural contrast to the gardens other plants and stone or masonry objects. It’s fountain-like appearance grows to about 12 to 18 inches tall and is 24 to 26 inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these award-winning plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 5 Quantity: 144 Letter: I Donation: $785Description:
Variegated Liriope's grass-like, two-toned green and creamy white leaves provide a pleasant backdrop for the plant’s purple spikes that appear from midsummer to fall. From 8 to 18 inches tall when mature, Variegate Liriope provides cover with a spectacular purple pop. Your gift includes 144 of these plantsAdd-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 5 Quantity: 3 Letter: W Donation: $235Description:
This dwarf semi-evergreen shrub flowers year round with colorful foliage that changes with the seasons. In spring it starts with green and gold foliage that morphs to gold in the summer and orange red in the fall. It holds a rounded shape, growing to about 2 to 2-1/2 feet tall with diameters in the three- to four-foot range. Your gift includes three of these gorgeous, color-changing plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: Y Donation: $175Description:
Zagreb Coreopsis is a fresh-looking perennial with yellow, daisy-like flowers—1 to 2 inches in diameter—with bright yellow petals and darker centers. The plant can become one- to three-feet tall with ample blossoms from late spring to late summer. Your gift includes seven of these delightful plants that will line one end of the garden’s stone walkway.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 25 Letter: T Donation: $465Description:
The Happy Returns daylily displays 3.5-inch ruffled, lemon-yellow flowers on bare stems. They usually rise 18 inches above the arching, linear, knife-like green leaves, and bloom from later spring to late summer. Your gift includes 25 of these elegant plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: U Donation: $160Description:
This sturdy perennial is as tough as they come. Clumping foliage displays large, plate-like flower clusters that provide a bright yellow brightness to the garden. A fine addition to the rock garden or mixed border. Succulent foliage will die back to the ground in cold winter regions, but will re-emerge in early spring. Your gift includes seven of these plants, grouped into a colorful bunch that will nurtured each year.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 72 Letter: N Donation: $3,100Description:
Dwarf Mondo Grass is a best-of-both-world groundcover. This lilyturf variety forms a thick layer of grassy turf that doesn’t need mowing. It only grows to about two to four inches and handles sun as well as shade, providing a green, plush cover. In the Founders’ Garden, the Dwarf Mondo Grass is paired with eight stone steps, providing a more natural looking transition between loops of the main stone walkway. Your gift includes 72 of these plants and eight stone steps.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 5 Letter: M Donation: $185Description:
Butterfly Weed is a vibrant native wildflower that grows to between one and three feet tall and one to one and a half feet wide. Its clustered flowers, which bloom from June through August, can vary in color from a rich orange to orange yellow. Your gift includes five of these beautiful perennial plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: V Donation: $500
Description:
The Sweet Drift Rose produces beautiful dwarf mounds of double flowers from spring through late fall adding waves of gorgeous color that will make the center of the Founders’ Garden pop. This low-maintenance small-rose groundcover grows to about 1½ feet and will rebloom again and again ensuring the garden has color all season. Your gift includes seven of these colorful, elegant plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: S Donation: $235Description:
Butterflies love Siberian Iris and so do almost everyone who sees it. The flowers are colorful with a pleasant vase shape that is still attractive after the blooming season. The leaves are blue-green and the frilly flowers are a vibrant purple. The Siberian Iris seems to come alive in the slightest breeze, adding an animated texture to the garden along the edge of the Roundel Plaza. Your gift includes seven of these elegant plantsAdd-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 3 Letter: G Donation: $235Description:
The Anthony Waterer Spirea is a wonderful mounded, upright, deciduous shrub that typically grows to two to three feet tall and three to four feet wide. Its oval leaves, which are usually about three inches long, start out reddish purple, changing to blue green in summer and reddish in autumn. The carmine-red cluster in corymbs up to six inches wide) from late spring to the middle of summer. Your gift includes three of these colorful butterfly-attracting plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 9 Letter: Q Donation: $300Description:
Japanese Sweet Flag Grass is a perennial plant that sports long, knife-like light-green to golden-yellow leaves. They can achieve 39 inches in height and in spring and early summer, may produce small, greenish-yellow flower spikes, followed by red berries. The “sweet” part of its name comes from the pleasant aroma that happens when the leaves are crushed. Your gift includes nine of these plants that will border the Roundel Plaza.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 12 Letter: P Donation: $330Description:
Ryan's White Daisy appears as dark green leafy mounds that produce beautiful white daisy flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the stems. Blooming almost all summer, this herbaceous perennial will provide a simple elegance to the center of the Founders’ Garden. Your gift includes 12 of these plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 12 Letter: O Donation: $465
Description:
Pink Muhly is a native ornamental grass that provides outstanding texture to the garden with extraordinary late-season color, when delicate pink plumes completely envelop the foliage. When mature, this grass plant can grow to 48-inches high and 36-inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these unusually beautiful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 2 Quantity: 3 Letter: O Donation: $115
Description:
Pink Muhly is a native ornamental grass that provides outstanding texture to the garden with extraordinary late-season color, when delicate pink plumes completely envelop the foliage. When mature, this grass plant can grow to 48-inches high and 36-inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these unusually beautiful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text.