“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson
Celebrating 20 Years
Welcome back to the 2021-2022 Garden Club year, which starts up during the waning days of a glorious summer. It is hard to believe that September 22 marks the first day of fall.
Please note that the Garden Club meeting time has changed for the fall due to a time conflict. This coming spring, our club will continue to keep our meetings on Mondays, but the starting time is to be decided. If the time conflict can be resolved, we will once again start the meetings at 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. We will continue to keep our membership informed via email regarding guest speakers and upcoming events and activities.
Our FIRST meeting on September 20 runs from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and features Shannon Sparkhul as our guest speaker. Shannon is a floral designer who has worked in this creative field for sixteen years, including as a top designer the ubiquitous tropical Milkweed plants.
“There are always for Black Iris florists in Laguna Beach. She now has her own local design studio, Lilys and Lace.
Shannon will design three different arrangements and give a short tutorial on how to design your own creation with store-bought flowers. There will be a raffle to win one of her arrangements: $1 for one ticket, and $5 for six tickets.
Sign-up sheets will be available for our upcoming events, including the March Plant Sale, which is our main fund raiser. We encourage our members to sign up to help with events. Donations are welcome towards the Penny Pines project.
For health reasons regarding COVID, packaged drinks and light snacks will be served at meetings. Please feel free to bring a sandwich or brown bag lunch if you wish.
Following the successful Monarch Butterfly Garden Club plantings in Niguel Shores earlier in the year, it is exciting to see that Dana Point City’s first Monarch Butterfly Habitat has been established in Sea Terrace Park. We have been encouraged to buy the two native California Milkweed varietals available in nurseries, rather than After a 98% decline in the Monarch Butterfly population over twenty years, it has been a joy to see more Monarchs fluttering by this summer. Hopefully we can guide “Monarchs back to their throne” in this concerted
conservation effort as more residents are embracing an increased awareness of the plight of these lovely butterflies.
—Ann Strauss
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