Where and When
Garden Club meetings are free and open to everyone. Members start arriving at 6:30pm to enjoy refreshments, chat, and check out the free materials and donated plants. The talk starts at 7pm. We have a new location for the meetings: the Louise Roberts Room at the United Church of Christ, 233 Harrison Ave, Claremont.
Topics
Our club supports all types of gardening — cottage-style, native plant and succulent, vegetable and fruit, formal hedges and rose beds, tropical and so on. We arrange speakers on topics ranging from growing tomatoes or keeping chickens to designing gardens or growing orchids. We do our best to provide information on how to incorporate sustainable practices in your garden no matter what you grow.
Past talks and speakers
| 2016-2017 |
| Sep. | Unusual Vegetables and Fruits | Yvonne Savio |
| Oct. | Basic Irrigation Workshop | Dave Schroeder |
| Nov. | Designing Waterwise Gardens: an Update | Robert Perry |
| Jan. | Uses of California Native Edible and Medicinal Plants | William Broen |
| Feb. | The New World of Daylilies | Mitch Holcomb |
| Mar. | Gardening with California Natives | Dolores Ruiz |
| Apr. | Plant Nutrition | Richard Lenard |
| May | Spring Vegetables and Other Edibles | Marc Hall |
| Jun. | Fairplex Farm Facts and Sustainable Urban Gardens | Don Delano |
| 2015-2016 |
| Sep. | Seed Saving! | Cynthia Cruz |
| Oct. | Yes, You Can! (make a succulent wreath) | Judy Casanova |
| Nov. | The Health Benefits of Gardening | Vicki Peyton |
| Jan. | Plant Pairings: Selecting plants that grow well together | April Garbat |
| Feb. | Benefits and Tricks to Organic Raised Bed Gardening | Liz Parkinson |
| Mar. | Garden Tools: How to choose, use, and care for them | George Gentilly |
| Apr. | Sourcing Organic Materials for Your Garden | Arthur Levine and Maria Alonso |
| May | Dinner from the Garden! | Cynthia Cruz |
| Jun. | How to Banish Garden Pests! | Dave Schroeder |
| 2014-2015 |
| Sep. | Soils, Plants and Water Relationships | Juan Garcia |
| Oct. | Fall Planting: Winter veggies and ornamentals | Jacquieline Evans |
| Nov. | Life After Lawns | Molly Blough |
| Jan. | Designing Lush, Low Maintenance, Waterwise Gardens | John Kosta |
| Feb. | Drought Tolerant Landscaping: A story of one Claremont home | Graciela Gonzales |
| Mar. | Titillating Tomato Talk! | Stephen Williams |
| Apr. | Backyard Birds of Claremont | Chris Verma |
| May | Plumerias and Orchids | John Schneckloth |
| Jun. | Getting Wild(life) in the Garden! (pdf) | Sue Schenk |
| 2013-2014 |
| Sep. | Backyard Chickens | Steve Sabicer |
| Oct. | The Basics of Drip Irrigation | Dave Palumbo |
| Nov. | Our Urban Forest | Larry Wheaton |
| Jan. | The Joys and Benefits of Square Foot Gardening | Jo Anna Carey |
| Feb. | Edible Garden Tidbits | Connie Newport |
| Mar. | California’s Native Bees in Your Garden | Nancy Hamlett |
| Apr. | Sex in Our Gardens! (Gasp!) | Eric Garton |
| May | Growing Herbs: From natural remedies to culinary ventures | Dessa D’Aquila |
| 2012-2013 |
| Sep. | Designing Waterwise Residential Gardens | Robert Perry |
| Oct. | Growing the Global Gardening Footprint | Tom Finerty |
| Nov. | Composting Magic! | Jennifer McCharren and Dan Pierce |
| Jan. | Pruning: What, why, when and how? | Dave Lannom |
| Feb. | Soil, Sun, and Squiggles: Tips for starting kitchen gardens | Cynthia Robinson |
| Mar. | Transforming Non-Native Gardens to Native Gardens | Wallace Meyer |
| Apr. | Sustainable Landscaping with California Native Plants | Antonio Sanchez |
| May | Creative Container Gardening | Steve Gerischer |
| Jun. | Re-Imagining the California Lawn | Bart O‘Brien |
