Plant Sale This Month—The Niguel Shores Garden Club will celebrate the coming of spring with our Annual Plant Sale on Saturday, March 25, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Come to the clubhouse and see the beautiful plants from our sponsoring local nurseries: Armstrong Plant Centers, Dana Point Nursery, Green Thumb Nursery, Harvest Landscaping, Plant Depot, and Seaside Growers. You’ll find plants and cuttings from our members’ gardens, plus other garden-related items on sale too. Local gardeners will be present to help you with climate, soil, sun, shade, and all plant-related matters.
Everyone is welcome to attend our plant sale. There will be a small admission entry of $1.00 per person, with home-baked cookies and raffle tickets for special plants. We accept payment in cash and by PayPal.
“He who plants a tree plants hope.” —Lucy Larcom
This sale is our club’s major fundraiser. We’ll be donating some of the plant sale proceeds to horticultural academic scholarships. We also donate to the Penny Pines Reforestation Program and other non-profit organizations focusing on conservation.
Luncheon Last Month—Our February Garden Club meeting took the form of a field trip to the ever-popular Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar, with a Valentine’s
If you are not yet a member of the Niguel Shores Men’s
Day luncheon celebration afterwards. (See photos on page
Club, there is no time like the present.
8.) What a beautiful setting for the occasion!
We meet at 8 a.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each
Tree Talk—The Niguel Shores Association Board held the
month. We always start with a good breakfast, followed by an
first in a series of Resident Roundtable meetings on February 8 to address the community’s long-term landscaping plans. Steven Schinhofen, owner of Harvest Landscaping, described Harvest’s proposals for preserving and replacing trees around our community. Most of Niguel Shores’ trees will remain as-is. But some trees are too old; some trees are diseased; other trees grow naturally too tall for their specific location and require continuous pruning to preserve residents’ views. In addition, our community’s coastal location and weather—quick-draining sandy soils, combined with high salinity from onshore ocean breezes and fog—limits the types of trees and plants that we can
grow successfully.
There will be further meetings to establish which trees Harvest pro- poses need to be replaced over the next five or more years in the com- munity, and which species of new trees will be planted. It is important for us as residents of Niguel Shores to attend these meetings so we can educate ourselves, ask questions, and help decide how our community will look in the long term. A thriving land- scape with beautiful trees and plants benefits everyone.
—Ann Strauss
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