Laguna Beach Garden Club

Cancelled: Patriots’ Day Parade
2019-03-02 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Parking Lot opposite Laguna Beach High School, 625 Park Ave, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651
Event cancelled due to anticipated rain!
Calling all members! Come have a great time marching in the City’s annual Patriots’ Day Parade. Our garden club has participated for over 40 years and won many awards, including three 1st Place trophies. You can carry our banners or signs, dance with the “Rakettes,” hand out Gate & Garden Tour postcards or simply march.
Have fun, support the community and help raise awareness of our club and what we do. It’s a wonderful event with 80+ groups marching; half the city is in the parade and the other half is watching!
We will assemble at 10 am in the parking lot opposite Laguna Beach High School, 625 Park Ave. The parade starts at 11 am, the downhill route is one mile through downtown Laguna Beach, and we will finish at about 1 pm.
If you’d like to march with us, please contact Diane. It’s a memorable experience and enjoyable time!
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Meeting & Speaker: Julie Bawden-Davis
2019-03-08 09:30 - 12:00 | Laguna Presbyterian Church, Tankersley Hall, 415 Forest Ave., Laguna Beach, 92651, United States
Julie Bawden-Davis will make a presentation on March 8 on Heirloom Tomatoes, and she will offer her books, plants and fertilizers for sale after the meeting.
Julie is a best-selling garden author and master gardener, who has written more than 2,500 gardening articles since 1985 for a variety of publications, such as Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Parents, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The American Gardener, Organic Gardening, and Wildflower. She is also a weekly gardening columnist with Parade.com, and founder and publisher of HealthyHouseplants.com.
She is the author of 10 gardening books, including the bestseller Fairy Gardening: Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden and Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants. Often referred to as the “strawberry lady,” Julie is author of The Strawberry Story: How to Grow Great Berries Year-Round in Southern California and The Strawberry Story: How to Grow Great Berries in the Northeast.
In June 1988, she became a University of California Certified Master Gardener, and that same year the National Wildlife Federation certified her backyard as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat. She lives, writes, and gardens indoors and out in Orange, CA.
Find out more about Julie by visiting JulieBawdenDavis.com, HealthyHouseplants.com, and communitytable.parade.com/member/juliebawdendavis.
If you have any questions, please contact Mariann. Hope to see you there!
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Annual Arbor Day Celebration
2019-03-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Main Beach, Main Beach, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651, United States
Calling All Members! The garden club is hosting a table at the city’s Annual Arbor Day Celebration at Main Beach in Laguna on Friday, March 8 from 3 pm – 5 pm. We will give away succulent cuttings to the public. Please bring any cuttings you have to our March 8 general meeting for the giveaway. If you have any questions, contact Lynn Jax.
The Arbor Day event will also feature:

a tree planting ceremony
free advice about planting and caring for trees
garden groups and tree advocates
fun activities for kids
music!

Please go to lagunabeachcity.net for more information.
The celebration will be a beautiful day outdoors by the ocean with lots of festivities! Hope to see you there!

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UPDATED: Green Thumb Crafts: Epoxy Jewlery
2019-03-15 10:30 - 12:30 | Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Beach, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN UPDATED.
Members are welcome to join the fun on March 15, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, when Natalie will lead a fabulous workshop to create your own beautiful Epoxy Jewlery. $25 for materials.
Attendance is limited. If you’d like to come, please contact Natalie to sign up and for the event address. Hope to see you there!
Questions? We’d love to hear from you!

Open Gardens Happy Hour
2019-03-22 13:00 - 16:00 | St. Catherine’s Church, 1042 Temple Terrace, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651, United States
Members, please join us at the Open Gardens Happy Hour on Friday, March 22 from 1-4 pm in Laguna Beach. Norman Powell, Kathleen Kane and Sherry Stephens have graciously opened their gardens to us and will serve light snacks and refreshments.
Members interested in going on the tour should contact Shelby for the addresses of the gardens.
Carpooling to each garden is preferred, as parking is limited. Please meet at St. Catherine’s Church on Temple Terrace at 12:45 pm.
Since it is difficult to accommodate 40 people in each garden at one time, when leaving St Catherine’s Church, please start at different gardens so the flow to each garden is evened out.
Open Gardens Happy Hour is a good way to meet new members, discover new ideas for your garden, and if requested, help the host/hostess with any ideas you may have for their gardens. Participating gardens do not need to be a showpiece and/or perfect. Every garden is unique and has a story to tell, and we greatly appreciate all who that have volunteered their gardens.
For further information and/or to volunteer your garden, please contact Shelby Rigg.
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Board Meeting
2019-03-25 09:30 - 12:30 | Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Beach, United States
Our Board of Directors meets monthly to discuss and vote on club business. Members are welcome to attend! Please contact Nancy for the meeting location.
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Meeting & Speaker
2019-04-12 09:30 - 12:00 | Laguna Presbyterian Church, Tankersley Hall, 415 Forest Ave., Laguna Beach, 92651, United States
Maureen Gilmer is the guest speaker at our April 12 meeting. Her presentation is titled, California Plants – A Historic and Holistic Approach.
A native Californian, Maureen will share her love of the state, its wildlands, plants and gardens by providing us with a holistic view of the future via our very own past. The presentation is based on her history book, Redwoods and Roses: The Gardening Heritage of California and the Old West, scheduled for new edition release in 2020.
“This past year of epic fires and floods led me back to our history as a state for a better sense of how weather, plants and human beings are all part of a holistic picture,” she said.
Discover the important plants and little-known secrets to their value in design and indigenous life. You’ll never see them the same way again!
Maureen is a second-generation Los Angeles native and has 40 years’ experience in arid climate gardening, landscape architecture and the environment. Her focus today is on the arid zone plants of the desert and California natives. She is passionate about future state policies regarding water, wildfire, historic landscaping and vegetation management.
In the second half of her career, she published 20 gardening books that feature her own photography and cover aspects of landscape design, horticulture and the environment. For over a decade, she wrote a weekly column with the Tribune Content Agency and is currently the horticultural columnist for the Desert Sun and Desert Magazine in Palm Springs.
If you have any questions about the speaker or meeting, please contact Nancy. Hope to see you on the 12th!
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CANCELLED: Mosaic Stepping Stones
2019-04-19 09:30 - 11:30 | Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Beach, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Members are welcome to join the fun on April 19, 9:30 am – 11:30 am, when Natalie will teach a fantastic workshop on making Mosaic Stepping Stones. You’ll step away with a beautiful work of art for your garden – that you created! $20 for materials.
Attendance is limited. If you’d like to come, please contact Natalie to sign up and for the workshop address. Hope to see you there!
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Board Meeting
2019-04-22 09:30 - 12:30 | Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Beach, United States
Our Board of Directors meets monthly to discuss and vote on club business. Members are welcome to attend! Please contact Nancy for the meeting location.
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Birds, Bagels & Brew
2019-04-26 09:30 - 13:00 | St. Catherine’s Church, 1042 Temple Terrace, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651, United States
Club members are welcome to join us on Friday, April 26 from 9:30 am – 1 pm to visit Debbie Sugg’s backyard wildlife sanctuary in Lake Forest. It is a wonderland of flora and fauna, and we will do some serious birding, so bring your binoculars! Refreshments will be served, and there will be mimosas!
To carpool from Laguna Beach, meet us at St. Catherine’s Church on Temple Terrace at 8:45 am. We will leave promptly at 9 am.
If you’d like Debbie’s address to drive there directly there — or have any questions — please contact Synthia Scofield by submitting the form below.
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Gate & Garden Tour Sold Out!
2019-05-03 09:00 - 14:00 | Arabella Laguna Historic Cottages, 506 N. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, CA, 92651, United States
Supporting educational school gardens, local scholarships and community projects
2019 Tour Tickets Have Sold Out!

Whether you’re taking the tour or not, please join us on Friday, May 3 at our fabulous garden party and raffle on the beautiful grounds of Arabella Laguna Historic Cottages, 506 N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, from 9 am – 4 pm. There is no entry fee!

Complimentary homemade cookies & refreshments
Mimosas & breakfast burritos for purchase in the morning
Margaritas, beer, wine, tacos & burritos for purchase in the afternoon
Raffle of 35+ amazing prizes valued over $7,000

Thanks to our generous 2019 Sponsors

Buy Tickets for Next Year’s Tour

2020 Gate & Garden Tour tickets go on sale May 3, 2019. They are $50 each plus handling charge, the same price as 2019. The 2020 tour will take place on Friday, May 1 in Laguna Beach, specific location to be announced early next year. We hope to see you there!
learn more buy 2020 tickets
If you have any questions, please contact our Gate & Garden Tour Director Karen Nelson by submitting the form below.
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Meeting & Speaker
2019-05-10 09:30 - 12:00 | Laguna Presbyterian Church, Tankersley Hall, 415 Forest Ave., Laguna Beach, 92651, United States
We are happy to welcome Sue this month for a return engagement. Sue is an award-winning garden designer, author and speaker. Last year, she spoke to us about herbs in the garden. This year, she’ll talk to us about using herbs in the kitchen. Her presentation is titled, An Herb Lover’s Garden.
Writing, speaking and leading workshops are the ways in which Sue shares her love of gardening and herb-growing all over the country. She is a member of Garden Writers of America, and her work has appeared in numerous publications. The Washington State Nursery & Landscape Association named her Educator of the Year.
Sue’s new book, A Taste for Herbs, is a guide to seasonings, mixes and blends using herbs from the garden and includes 50 recipes. In The Herb Lover’s Spa book, she talks about creating garden sanctuaries and home-grown, hand-blended herb treatments. She will have copies of her books to sign and sell after our meeting.
Through her business, The Creative Gardener, Sue works with clients to personalize their outdoor spaces –from garden coaching to full landscape design. Her garden design work has earned gold medals at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and specialty awards from Sunset Magazine, Fine Gardening Magazine, The American Horticultural Society and others.
To learn more about Sue’s work and publications, visit her on her website, Herb Lover’s Garden, as well as Facebook, Pinterest and other social media.
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