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Upcoming Event
May MVGC Members and guests garden tour, thursday, may 15, 2025
This month is one of our favorite events of the year! Five MVGC members and their friends will be hosting a garden tour of their beautiful gardens following a brief meeting at the Norman P. Murray Center. We will meet starting promptly at 9am. Please be prepared to:
-Renew your MVGC Membership for $35 (cash or check)
-Sign up for the June luncheon for $20 (cash or check)
-Purchase your garden tour ticket(s). Member tickets are $5 and non-members tickets are $10
Please see your latest email from the club for further details!
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april outing, thursday, april 17, 2025
This month we are heading out together to visit the Huntington Library and and Botanical Gardens! Sign-ups are required for this event. Please contact Diana Miller of Carol Carroll to see if there are still openings. Fee includes round-trip bus travel and lunch.
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march meeting, thursday, march 20, 2025
This month, we welcome back one of our favorite speakers, Kris Bonner, Master Gardener. This month, Kris will share a wealth of information about growing tomatoes and peppers with a Q & A session to follow. Social time and refreshments available starting at 9 am. We will be having a raffle this month so bring cash or your checkbook!
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February outing, thursday, february 20, 2025
This month our meeting will be an outing to the Moulton Niguel Water District, 26161 Gordon Road, Laguna Hills. We will meet up at the Norman Murray Center at 9:15 to organize carpools and leave for the Water District by 9:30. Parking is limited so please carpool if you can. Moulton Niguel Water District will provide refreshments, docent-led garden tours, giveaways, and lots of information. Tour and presentation will begin at 9:45.
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september business meeting, thursday, september 19, 2024
Welcome back from summer. We are very excited about the programs we have in place and can’t wait to share them with you! Become reacquainted with everyone through an extended social time, followed by a business meeting, committee chairs presentation, and an opportunity to meet the chairs and sign up for various committees. Bring your checkbook to signup for upcoming crafts and field trips. Refreshments will be served!
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october business meeting and craft, thursday, october 17, 2024
Valerie Sweeney and Diana Miller will demonstrate how to use a pumpkin and succulents to make a charming fall arrangement. They’ll then guide us through the process of making our own centerpiece. This is an easy craft that anyone can do, so come and have fun. Materials fee $10. Refreshments will be served!
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may business meeting and garen tour, thursday, may 16, 2024
We are excited to visit five lovely gardens on our tour this year! Please feel free to invite your friends to the tour!
Members, are to attend a brief business meeting on the Murray Center Patio starting promptly at 9 am. There, you may purchase your tickets for the tour. Tickets for members are $5 and for non-members, $10. Payment to be made in cash or check only (check made out to MVGC). We plan to head out on our tour by ten. The gardens are located in Mission Viejo and RSM.
If you are a non-member and wish to attend our tour, please email your request to donnajmilazzo@gmail.com for ticket information.
Bring cash/checkbook for your Garden Tour tickets and our to sign up for our June end of year brunch. Please check your email for more details to come.
No refreshments, raffle, or cuttings table this month.
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april general meeting, thursday, april 18, 2024
Join us this month as we present one of our most requested program topics - a floral arranging demonstration by Gayle Ray of Branches and Blooms by Beth in Old Town Orange. She is a lover of all things floral and an aspiring flower farmer, growing many of her own cut flowers. You can visit her website here: https://www.branchesandbloomsbybeth.com/
Our meeting starts at 9 am with refreshments and social time. Visitors are always welcome. We will have updates on our upcoming Garden Tour which is scheduled for Thursday, May 16, 2024! We have four beautiful gardens on this year's tour, but would love to have one more, hint, hint! Tour cost for members is $5.00, non-members $10.00. Garden tour fee helps offset costs associated with our tour. Please invite your friends!
Bring cash/checkbook to sign up for the garden tour and our June end of year brunch. Please check your email for more details to come.
We will be having a raffle this month, so bring your wallet! The bouquet created by our speaker will be among the raffle items!!
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march general meeting, Thursday, march 21, 2023 note: signups for this event are closed
We are in for a special treat this month. We have arranged for a private tour of the farm/garden at the beautiful Ranch Restaurant in Laguna Beach. This property includes a golf course, overnight accommodations, and a restaurant. The on-site garden provides greens and other edible specialties that are used in the restaurant, as well as flowers to beautify the tables. A collection of fancy chickens provides eggs that are used in the fresh pasta made daily. Gardener Leo will treat us to a private tour and explain how he manages his little garden from seed starting, growing, harvesting, and finally using left-overs from the restaurant to create compost to help the gardens grow even better! We will be shuttled from the main restaurant area past the golf course to his unique 'Garden by the Sea'. After our tour, we will enjoy lunch together at the nearby Ruby's on PCH. Bring your checkbooks to sign up for this fun activity! There will be carpool sign-up sheets at our February meeting as well.
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february general meeting, Thursday, february 15, 2023, 9am
Welcome to our February meeting! This month, we will enjoy a presentation by a representative of the "Growing Kindness Project (GKP). The GKP in a non-profit organization that works to support thousands of volunteers who want to share kindness by growing and giving away flowers. They provide support, education, and resources to help members be better gardeners and learn ways to share them with their communities. Find out more about this wonderful organization at: https://www.growingkindnessproject.org/
A short business meeting will precede our presentation.
We will also have sign-up sheets for our upcoming Field Trip in March so bring your checkbooks!
Doors open at 9:00. Visitors are always welcome and refreshments will be served!
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january general meeting and craft, Thursday, January 18, 2023
Please join us for our first meeting of 2023. Remember that ALL future meetings will be on the third THURSDAY of each month, same time and location.
In addition to a short business meeting, we will be creating "Pocket Posies" from 28 oz. cans. Please start saving your cans as we are hoping to have two per participant. Please remove the labels and glue, and contact Donna M. to get them to her prior to our meeting (donnajmilazzo@gmail.com). You may bring a special decorative paper napkin for decoupage, or several choices will be available at the meeting. Silk flowers are not included.
Pre-registration is required for this project. Please get your payment to June Little (junelittle12@gmail.com, 27222 Arena Lane, MV) by Monday, January 15, 2023.
