The good news, as our county emerges from lockdown, is that our club was able to have our annual year-end Beach BBQ on June 21. This year's event was extra special because we were celebrating the club’s 20th Anniversary. Like all anniversaries, we enjoyed a beautiful Anniversary Cake. Yum, Yum. Want more good news? The Niguel Shores Garden Club … [Read more...]

If you toured our four Shores gardens on May 17, you probably came away with the thought, “Wow, those owners are true gardeners with special creative talent.” An unexpected morning rain did not deter over thirty Garden Club members from experiencing four unique owner-Garden Club members on tour of four Niguel Shores gardens designed gardens. Kathy … [Read more...]

April RecapWhile you are reading this, you might take a look out to your garden to see if a Western Bluebird is there. If you were at the April 19 club meeting, Chris Daley, Al Glatt, and I gave advice on how to attract these beauties to our yards. No bluebird yet? Well, keep hoping.In April, club members also took a trip to the New- port Beach … [Read more...]

Many of you already know that we had to cancel our March 15 club meeting, almost at the last minute, because of the bands of rain that were coming through Dana Point at the time. Since we were to have our meeting outside by the fireplace, cancelling was the right decision to make.We have rescheduled the March meeting to April 19. Join us then for a … [Read more...]

GARDEN CLUBNiguel Shores Garden Club meton February 15. Our own Tom O’Keefe presented an informative talk on Monarch Butterflies and their favorite plant, milkweed.Tom’s interest in Monarchs goes back to the 1970s when he remembers the hillsides of this area alive with fluttering Monarchs and the native California milkweed plants that sus- tained … [Read more...]

Boo-Hoo. As you know, for safety reasons your officers decided to cancel our January meeting where we hoped to discuss our proposed Garden Club activity, the Monarch Butterfly Project. Do not despair. We have shifted that presentation to our February 15 club meeting.Just before I was preparing to write this article, I was checking my emails and saw … [Read more...]

Speaking for the officers of our great Niguel Shores Garden Club, we hope all members had a safe, happy and joyous holiday season. We felt sadness that we could not meet for our traditional holiday festivities and see your tanned foreheads (from spending all your time masked and observing social distances outdoors working in your gardens) and … [Read more...]

I hope you didn’t miss the Garden Club meeting on November 16, because everyone there had a great time and lots of fun assembling beautiful Christmas ornaments for our Forget-Me-Not Project.This project is named after a delicate blue flower symbolizing friendship and remembrance. We are going to extend the gifts we made for friendship and holiday … [Read more...]

From the feedback that I heard, our first club meeting this fall on September 21 was well attended and your officers received many positive remarks and suggestions.Our October club activity was a field trip to visit the “Shangri-la” of our neighborhood—Seaside Growers and Nursery in San Juan Capistrano. Owner Jim Cassady described the 1980s … [Read more...]

We're finally getting off to a new start after such a long pause. I think we've never had so much time on our hands to work in our gardens! During this quarantine, my neighbor and I have spent many hours in my garden. We started calling it the Sanity Garden because it provided such peace. I hope that we all can tend our lovely little Sanity … [Read more...]