Laguna Beach Garden Club Speaker Program, March 8, 2019

Friday, March 8, 2019,  Julie Bawden-Davis  

Learn how to grow delicious heirloom tomatoes. This informative presentation includes information on various heirloom tomato favorites and the stories behind them, such as Abe Lincoln, Brandywine, Sweet Pea Currant, Mortgage Lifter and Aunt Ruby’s German Green. These tomato varieties and other heirlooms have long, interesting histories. Julie will also share planting, care and harvesting tips, including growing heirloom tomatoes in containers. There will be heirloom tomato plants and Julie’s Terrific Tomato Fertilizer for sale after the presentation.
 
Julie Bawden-Davis is a bestselling garden writer and University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, who since 1985 has written more than 2,500 articles for publications such as Organic Gardening, Wildflower, Better Homes and Gardens and The Los Angeles Times. She writes a weekly garden column on Parade.com and is author of 12 books, including Fairy Gardening: Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden, The Strawberry Story: How to Grow Great Berries Year-Round in Southern California, Reader’s Digest Flower Gardening and Indoor Gardening the Organic Way. She is also founder and publisher of Healthy Houseplants.com. In 1998, her backyard was certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat. She lives, writes, and gardens indoors and out in Orange. Find out more about Julie by visiting www.JulieBawdenDavis.com,
 https://parade.com/member/juliebawdendavis/  and www.HealthyHouseplants.com
                             

Laguna Beach Garden Club Meeting Information:

The Laguna Beach Garden Club meets on the second Friday of every month, September through May at the Laguna Presbyterian Church, 415 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach, CA.   9:30 am Social, 10:00 am General Meeting,   Public is welcome, there is no charge for guests on their first visit.  Before or after the meeting, please browse the outdoor “Garden Boutique” where donated garden-related items and plants can be purchased at “dirt-cheap” prices. Fantastic garden gloves only $7/pair. Parking: Free in the Laguna Canyon Road lot (spaces 300-422) or $3 for all day in spaces 185-228.
For more information on the garden club:  www.lagunabeachgardenclub.org  
  

The Laguna Beach Garden Club

The Non-profit Laguna Beach Garden Club, Inc. was founded in 1928 in beautiful Laguna Beach, CA and celebrated its 91st  anniversary in February.  Its members support a wide variety of projects related to education in gardening, horticulture, landscape and floral design, conservation, ecology and bird life.

We make annual donations to several local public gardens, arboretums and schools (including Top of the World, El Morro and Thurston Middle School). Saddleback College horticultural students and Laguna Beach High School students have benefitted for many years from our scholarship program, and we added a scholarship to LCAD.  The downtown “Pocket Garden” on Forest Avenue was refurbished through the hard work of our members and we are committed to maintain its beauty indefinitely.  We recently replanted the gardens next to the library.  In conjunction with the Beautiful Council, we planted and maintain the Sister Cities Garden in Heisler Park.
We hold monthly meetings on the 2nd Friday during the months of September through May, where we host many presenters on a variety of topics. Meetings are held at Tankersley Hall at the Laguna Beach Presbyterian Church, located at 415 Forest Ave. There is no charge for guests on their first visit.

The annual Gate & Garden Tour is a public viewing of several of the loveliest gardens that Laguna Beach residents have to offer.  The tour is our most important fund-raising event and makes possible all of our environmental projects and scholarships.
As we make our plans for the future, the members of the Laguna Beach Garden Club and its 200+ members remain wholeheartedly committed to preserving and enhancing the natural beauty of the community we serve.  We are happy that we can make a difference.
We are members of the California Garden Club Inc., which includes membership in the National Garden Clubs Inc.  We are incorporated and have well defined by-laws with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit designation.