Projects & ACTIVITIES
We have a number of events, including lectures, workshops, tours and field trips. We also offer the opportunity for community involvement and civic beautification as well as scholarships. Join us!
Native Plants Study Group
Fallbrook Garden Club's new study group on Native Plants will discuss plants that grow naturally in a particular area or ecosystem. The study group will discuss how over time, native plants have evolved and adapted to the soils, climate, and other native plants and animals in Fallbrook and surrounding areas.
SUCCULENT WORKSHOPS
This group conducts workshops and field trips for those in the Garden Club interested in succulents. Workshops consist of using succulents for home and garden décor. Each year the group creates decorated pumpkins to be distributed to local house-bound persons in cooperation with the Sheriff’s Senior Volunteer Patrol. Another special event is creating Holiday succulent covered candy tins.
TOURS/FIELD TRIPS
JOIN US AT OUR NEXT MEETING!
Fallbrook Community Center, 341 Heald Lane, Fallbrook
Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month from September through June except December.
The agenda is as follows:
12:45 Social Time & Refreshments
1:00 Business Meeting
2:00 Program
Please join us at our next scheduled meeting. Visitors are welcome!
Club Projects & Activities
Member Education
COFFEE IN THE GARDEN: Individual members open their gardens for informal tours by Club members. The Club provides light refreshments.
NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION: The Board hosts a social event to welcome and acquaint new and prospective members with Club activities and volunteer opportunities.
STUDY GROUPS & WORKSHOPS: Informal, hands-on sessions that enable members to increase their knowledge of horticulture, floral design, wildlife, and other garden-related topics.
TOURS & FIELD TRIPS: Periodic visits to public or private gardens, nurseries, or other garden-related facilities throughout the area to provide the opportunity for members to learn about horticulture, landscaping, and commercial agriculture.
Community Beautification
LIVE OAK PARK GARDENERS: Volunteer crews have four to eight members working monthly daily, tending to the native plants garden.
SEASONAL SPLENDORS: The Club provides landscaping support and seasonal flowers that members place in large permanent containers at the Fallbrook Senior Center entrance.
LIBRARY GARDENS: Volunteers work one or two days per month, tending to the container plantings in the two outdoor patios at the Fallbrook Library.
MEMORIAL DAY FLOWERS: Members contribute flowers and arrange bouquets on Memorial Day morning. More than one hundred bouquets are created, taken to the Masonic Cemetery, and made available for visitors to place on graves.
Community Outreach
ARTS IN THE PARK: Hosting a booth at the annual children’s festival.
GARDEN TOUR: A tour of private home gardens in the Fallbrook area is arranged by the Club. Proceeds benefit the scholarship fund, community service efforts, and the general fund.
NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK (1st week in June): Members promote the week's observance in June and bring public attention to garden clubs and gardening through specially planned activities.
PENNY PINES: Penny Pines was established by the National Garden Clubs, Inc., by which California Garden Clubs, Inc. adopted the program in 1957. Fallbrook Garden Club joined the program in the 1960s. Pocket change is collected from members at the General Meetings. When the minimum of $68.00 is collected, it will be used to purchase seedlings for one acre of cedar, fir, redwood, oak, and various pine varieties for restoration work in Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Club fundraising projects support scholarships for students currently enrolled in local area schools pursuing degrees in horticultural or agricultural-related fields of study. Donations may also be made to local school garden programs.
YANA (Sheriff's Volunteer Program): Members create beautiful succulent-topped pumpkins for the fall season for shut-ins in the community. The Senior Volunteer Patrol distributes the gifts.
Ways & Means
BIRTHDAY RAFFLE: Each member is asked to donate a plant or garden-related item for the raffle at General Meetings held during their birthday month.
GREEN THUMB TABLE: Plants, bulbs, seeds, and produce donated by members are sold at General Meetings.
PLANT SALE & RAFFLE: Plants and garden-related items donated by members and local merchants are sold and/or raffled. Proceeds help to benefit community projects and scholarship funds.
Of Special Note
In 1994, the club placed a Blue Star Byway Marker in the Village Square (just behind the flag pole) in the center of the Fallbrook Veterans Honor Roll Wall. The Blue Star Byway Marker is a project of the National Garden Clubs, Inc. The Village Square Blue Star Byway Marker is one of 16 memorials and markers in San Diego County. For information on the Blue & Gold Star Memorial program, go to http://californiagardenclubs.com/sites/default/files/Projects/BlueStarPage.pdf