On a warm and beautiful October day, thirteen club members had an excellent time perusing and shopping five distinctly different nurseries in norther San Diego County.

We opened the garden club year with a local Trip & Tour destination where Garden Club day trippers channeled mountain goats as we toured the terraced grounds and home of Hortense Miller.

The 34th annual Southern California Spring Garden Show at South Coast Plaza was our last Trip and Tour of the garden club year. A small group of us gathered on April 25 to marvel and draw inspiration from the Fleurs de Villes exhibit of mannequins dressed in lavish, fresh floral ensembles.

On the first official day of spring, twenty members toured The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. A warm welcome to Bonnie and Pat, our brand new members who joined our T&T! Click on the title or the photo to learn more.

Tales of Trips & Tours: A visit to the Niguel Botanic Garden by Patty Gaffney. Click on the title or the photo to learn more.

Tales of Trips & Tours: A visit to Descanso by Patty Gaffney. Click on the title or the photo to learn more.

Tales of Trips & Tours: A visit to Bluebird Canyon Farms by Patty Gaffney. Click on the title or the photo to learn more.

We spent a delightful January morning exploring three garden and boutique shops at the historic Circle in Old Towne Orange. 

On June 23rd, twenty-two club members, family, and friends boarded a luxury-chartered bus at Laguna Beach High School parking lot early in the morning for the day-long excursion to the famed Lotusland in Santa Barbara (Montecito).

Tales of Trips & Tours by Synthia Scofield. Click on the title or the photo to learn more.