I hope most of you remember our dynamic December speaker, Dr. Jana Johnson, who brought the Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly back from the brink of extinction. In April the board was invited to join Dr. Johnson and some of her students to release the endangered butterflies.
On May 5, 2026, StuNews (Volume 18, Issue 36) published an feature on our 2026 Gate & Garden Tour where patrons strolled through a masterfully curated set of gardens in “Tree Trees” of North Laguna. The tour is our major fundraiser for educational school gardens, local scholarships and community projects. Click below to see more of Mary Hurlbut’s lovely photos of the event!
The Laguna Beach Garden Club funds a $5,000 grant for the Farmer Training Program at The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano.
While our visit last April was on a gray and chilly morning, this year was a perfect, sunny spring day with Daytrippers enjoying for a second time the unique experience of exploring the home and gardens of Sheila and Jimmy Peterson.
The Laguna Beach Garden Club is proud to support creativity, community, and our veterans! LBGC presents Laguna College of Art + Design with a $5,000 donation to help build and maintain a Veteran’s Garden on their campus.
The final class in our Gardening 101 series on Supporting Back Yard Wildlife was held following our April General Meeting. The Gardening 101 series is led by our own UC Master Gardeners.
"Soon after moving to Laguna in 1993, I bought a ticket for the Spring Garden Tour, presented by the Laguna Beach Garden Club. The details are fuzzy, but on a sunny Thursday in May, I was given a map to five or six scattered gardens and set off. At each garden, I and 100 other ticket holders hunted for parking, visited a garden then got back in our cars, drove to the next garden, and hunted for parking again." In this month's President's Message, Nancy Englund gives a short history of our Gate & Garden Tour.
A five-gabled white house, the century-old home of world renowned actress Madame Helena Modjeska is tucked away amidst a live oak grove on the banks of Santiago Creek. Named for the grounds’ resemblance to the Forest of Arden in the Shakespearean play, “As You Like It,” Arden is designated a National Historic Landmark.
We've been busy bees in the LPC Rose Garden. In March, the rose garden underwent some big renovations.
I would like to celebrate the success of the Valentine’s Extravaganza! As you may know, I’ve had my eye on the ValX as an event with the potential to become a major community affair. This year, I was delighted by our success. By the numbers, we increased profits by 24% over last year.
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Artist Matt Willey painted the beautiful Bee Mural featured in our banner as part of his The Good of the Hive™ initiative.
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