The Women’s Council of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden (WCDABG) was founded in 1982 by a group of civic-minded women dedicated to raising funds and awareness for the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. As of 2025, the organization is 43 years old, marking over four decades of community leadership, philanthropy, and stewardship of A Woman’s Garden.
The Women’s Council envisioned A Woman’s Garden as one of the Arboretum’s most significant features, reflecting the Council’s enduring support and contributions.
Its mission is to:
The Women’s Council envisioned A Woman’s Garden as one of the Arboretum’s most significant features, reflecting the Council’s enduring support and contributions.
Its mission is to:
- Conceive, design, develop, and maintain a living, evolving garden of formal grandeur and sweeping beauty, embodying the virtues and strengths of women.
- Create a terraced landscape that offers beauty and energy in every season, can be enjoyed by day or night, and features sculptural and delicate plants, romantic trees, and water for both grandeur and tranquility.
- Provide intimate spaces for reflection, fantasy, and charm, enriched with art and design elements, so that visitors leave “calm and satisfied, yet desiring to return again and again…a garden of love.”
- Serve as a place that “depicts the subtle complexity of the virtues and strengths of women” and invites visitors to experience its “magic and fantasy” beyond the shapes and symbols.
A Woman’s Garden ... depicts the subtle complexity of the virtues and strengths of women manifested in the form of a garden. The success of the garden rests in the willingness of the visitor to permit herself or himself the freedom to receive its mystery and to travel beyond the shapes and symbols. It is the permission to enter a place of magic and fantasy — Morgan Wheelock, Designer