GardenFest 2024 is proving to be event more exciting than previous years! Don’t Miss It!

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2024 GardenFest — San Clemente Garden Club

Join your fellow garden club members as we set up for GardenFest 2024

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Meetings are held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church, 2001 Calle Frontera, San Clemente, CA on the first Wednesday of the month—September through June at 1 o’clock PM. You can join the club by clicking here or by showing up at any monthly garden club meeting. Join now and your membership materials and name tag will be ready for you on the check-in table at the next meeting.

Composting: It’s a Pile of Fun!

Attendees of this month’s meeting will learn the value of composting by Francene Kaplan, the “Priestess of Rot.” Dr. Kaplan has been trained and certified as a Master Composter and has been “recycling Nature’s way” for over four decades.

You will find out there are lots of “Dos,” a few “Don’ts,” and many “Maybes” regarding composting. While there is a general method, each family is different and contributes uniquely to the compost pile. Any household can compost its green and brown waste to eventually yield organic matter that enriches soil. The basic set up will be presented along with suggestions for those that are experienced in composting, and all are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

In this talk Dr. Kaplan will help you navigate a path to make your compost bin a thriving ecosystem. Dr. Kaplan has taught science for over 36 years.  You may have seen her at the Orange County Fair presenting a composting workshop, encouraging others to start a “pile of fun” of their own.

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 3rd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the gardens at Casa Romantica.

Casa Romantica needs our support more than ever.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Meetings are held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church, 2001 Calle Frontera, San Clemente, CA on the first Wednesday of the month—September through June at 1 o’clock PM. You can join the club by clicking here or by showing up at any monthly garden club meeting. Join now and your membership materials and name tag will be ready for you on the check-in table at the next meeting.

Common Home-Grown Herbs and their Medicinal Properties

Our March guest speaker, Florence LeFranc, is a Certified Medicinal Herbalist, Certified Nutrition Therapist, and a Cosmetic and Supplement formulator.

She offers health related consultations online. She has developed her own brand of herbal products and formulates and manufactures products for other companies.

She also loves to share her knowledge and enjoys hosting workshops. She will speak about the common herbs we can grow in our garden, how to grow them and their medicinal properties, the different ways of using herbs daily (addition to food, brewed as a tea, skin ointments) and the quality of herbs and how to choose them.

Florence will share an abundance of knowledge.  Be sure to bring pen and paper in case there is anything she shares that you don’t want to forget!

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 3rd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the gardens at Casa Romantica.

Casa Romantica needs our support more than ever.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Guest Speaker: Sally Richards

What is Hydroponics?

Sally Richards is a master gardener who has been growing vegetables in soilless hydroponic systems for years. Come learn how to grow a bounty of fresh food with minimal water, very little space and no pests!

Meetings are held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church, 2001 Calle Frontera, San Clemente, CA on the first Wednesday of the month—September through June at 1 o’clock PM. You can join the club by clicking here or by showing up at any monthly garden club meeting. Join now and your membership materials and name tag will be ready for you on the check-in table at the next meeting.

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 3rd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the gardens at Casa Romantica.

Casa Romantica needs our support more than ever.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

This field trip is filled to the maximum number of attendees. Please contact Lana Doyle if you wish to be placed on the waitlist.

Location and Event Details to be announced at a later date

This field trip is filled to the maximum number of attendees.

If you would like to be put on the waitlist, please contact Lana Doyle.

Eco Warriors WILL NOT MEET on Monday, November 27th. The City of San Clemente is in the process of a sand replenishment project near the pier.

The December Eco Warriors clean-up would typically fall on December 25th, which is the last Monday of the month. A decision has been made to combine the November and December clean-ups to December 11th. This will be the only clean-up in the months of November and December.

If you have any questions, please contact Weej Baggaley.

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

Meetings are held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church, 2001 Calle Frontera, San Clemente, CA on the first Wednesday of the month—September through June at 1 o’clock PM. You can join the club by clicking here or by showing up at any monthly garden club meeting. Join now and your membership materials and name tag will be ready for you on the check-in table at the next meeting.

Floral Design

The November guest speaker is Kathe Hayden. Kathe has over 40 years’ experience in the floral industry designing and teaching her craft.  She has served on the California State Floral Association and ran the California State Certified Florist program. 

Her program will share with you some rules and creative ideas to make centerpieces for all occasions that will WOW your dinner guests.  She will help you think outside the box when it comes to adoring your table with flowers.

Come prepared with pen and paper to take some notes so that you are ready to create awesome centerpieces for the upcoming holidays.

Mark your calendar for the San Clemente Garden Club’s 2023 Fall Plant Sale!

People attending the event line up early to have a chance to purchase the most unique plants! You will find a wide range of plants as well as a Mini Flea Market with an assortment of garden related items, including ceramic pots.

Remember…get there early!

Click here to view the webpage:  https://www.sanclementegardenclub.com/2023-fall-plant-sale

Join your fellow garden club members as we set-up for the 2023 Fall Plant Sale!

Get to know your fellow garden club members by joining them on the 2nd Wednesday of each month as we prune and weed the native gardens at Park Semper Fi.

If you have any questions, please contact Kieu Doan at kieuduyendoan@gmail.com

San Clemente Garden Club meetings are held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church, 2001 Calle Frontera, San Clemente, CA on the first Wednesday of the month—September through June at 1 o’clock PM. You can join the club by clicking here or by showing up at any monthly garden club meeting. Join now and your membership materials and name tag will be ready for you on the check-in table at the next meeting.

October’s guest speaker is Gabe Verduzco. Growing up in the Central San Joaquin Valley in Kingsburg, Gabe knew nothing about gardening. In his teens, he began growing tomatoes, pumpkins and his favorite corn, Vision, from seed catalogs. He enjoyed the outdoors- nature, bugs, and other critters were enticing to him. When he was almost 16, he began working with the USDA, working for plant pathologists and plant breeders. They were conducting various experiments to find organic methods to prolong the life of fruit and breed new varieties of table grapes and stone fruit. It is when they let him use the greenhouse to start his seeds that really helped him get into the plant world.

Gabe obtained his degree in Plant Science from Fresno State and began working for Filoli Gardens, the botanic garden in Woodside after that he moved to Oahu to start a small fruit farm and surf! Upon returning to the mainland, in 2017 he landed a role as Staff Research Associate at the University of California Cooperative Extension, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. His job was to examine trees for infestations, document the severity, and then map them for future treatment or removal. Now he works part-time for Center for Natural Lands Management as a park ranger at our local nature preserves; Dana Point Headlands and Marblehead in San Clemente. Full time, he is now a Regional Arborist Advisor for Rainbow Ecoscience.

In his off time, Gabe is dedicated to surfing and tending to his little garden in Capistrano Beach and he volunteers in managing social media for the Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society.