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: 2 Quantity: 8 Letter: M Donation: $290Description:
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: 2 Quantity: 12 Letter: L Donation: $325Description:
The Snowflake Iberis is, as the name implies, an evergreen groundcover with small, flat leaves covered in crowded white flowers in spring. Each flower has four white petals with a yellow dot in the center. Your gift includes 12 of these sprawling 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: 2 Quantity: 144 Letter: I Donation: $810Description:
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 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: 2 Quantity: 8 Letter: H Donation: $845Description:
The Mugo Pine a hardy evergreen shrub with a mounded shape and deep green needles. New growth sprouts upward from the dense foliage, looking like candles until the fold in with the soft rounded shape of the plant. They will form a striking anchor at one end of the Kar Platz. Your gift includes eight of these substantial shrubsAdd-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: 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: 2 Quantity: 7 Letter: F Donation: $175Description:
Walker’s Low Catmint is an herbaceous perennial that can grow as high as two feet with a spread of 18 to 36 inches, making it a distinctive and attention-getting addition to the garden. The blossoms’ lovely lavender color is accentuated by fragrant, silvery leaves. Including these plants in the Kar Platz border will certainly highlight this distinctive part of the garden. Your gift includes seven of these tall, colorful 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: 2 Quantity: 7 Letter: D Donation: $200Description:
Part of the border of the Kar Platz is the hardy Ice Plant, which provides a layer of beautiful color during much of the blooming season. Soft green leaves underscore vibrant, purplish-pink, daisy-like flowers that will be extremely vibrant—and noticeable—in this part of the garden. Your gift includes seven of these distinctive, colorful 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: 1 Quantity: 74 Letter: B Donation: $315Description:
This evergreen groundcover forms lush, green mounds up to a foot tall. Its fine leaves resemble grass and will be part of a cohesive and visually aesthetic frame for the Kar Platz. Your gift includes 74 of these plants grouped in the center of the approach to the Kar Platz.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.