On Monday, March 21, 2016, club members car-pooled to the Great Park in Irvine to tour the Farm, Food and Landscape Lab. This facility’s activities are to preserve and investigate food and farm commodities. It is a non-profit organization with a cadre of volunteer gardeners. The vast majority of plants, cuttings and seeds that they plant are … [Read more...]

The Garden Club met on Monday, February 15. Consistent with the long established tradition, the Hospitality group provided a varied menu of sandwiches, cheese and crackers, cut up fruit and an assortment of small pastries and cookies. Our thanks to Carmen Murphy, Carolyn Brase, Ann Strauss, Barbara Milner, Marilyn Moon, Margaret Brugger, Bob … [Read more...]

The garden Club met on Monday, January 18, the first meeting of the New Year. Members were treated to a wonderful lunch thanks to Carmen Murphy, JoAnn Webb, Grace Glatt, Gunjan Anand and Chris Daley. Our esteemed President, Jerry Koppang opened the meeting with the treasurer’s report, submitted by Karl Kuhn, who protects every dollar the Club gets … [Read more...]

The garden club had its meeting on Monday, November 16. It has been a tradition with the garden club, to put together gift bags for the Dana point seniors that do not have the luxury of leaving their homes. Our thanks to Carol Kuhn, Melanie Wilcox and Francine Stout, for spending the time to shop for all the essential things that go into the gift … [Read more...]

The Garden Club met on Monday October 19. Our thanks to Carmen Murphy, JoAnn Webb, Grace Glatt, Marilou Heckman, Karla Sanders and Suzanne Enis for a lavish luncheon. Our guest speaker was Annie Hall Bosche from Annie Hall Landscape Design of Mission Viejo. She gave an enlightening lecture on roses. She educated us on terms from Bare Root Roses to … [Read more...]

The lazy days of summer for members of the Garden Club have passed and a new club year has begun. On September 21 we had our first meeting where we listened to a great, informative talk on orchids by two members of the Orange County Orchid Society, Roberta Fox and Tony Glinskas. Tony spoke and gave tips on the growing of orchids in Coastal … [Read more...]

The Niguel Shores Garden Club’s first meeting of the 2015-16 year will be held on Monday September 21, 2015. The subject will be Floral Arranging. Our speaker, Summer Roberts, is a well known local Floral Design Artist. Summer and her sister have a local floral design business. She will share her tips on floral design with us. See you in … [Read more...]

While the Garden Club does not meet during the months of July and August the officers of the club are working to select a schedule of meeting topics, speakers and garden tours for the new calendar year, September through next June. Thanks to our president, Jerry Koppang, his tireless efforts have in the past contributed many valuable suggestions … [Read more...]