This Club Year's Progams and Trips
2008 - 2009

Membership Tea, September 9th, 9:30 to noon,
Torrance Airport Meeting Room

The first meeting of the year will welcome new members and show pictures of the tour gardens. The garden tour chairman and the house co-ordinators will speak about their gardens. Special Guest Gina Bush, landscape designer for one of our gardens, will speak on native landscapes.

We are honoring the new members that joined in the 2007-2008 year.

Beyond the Garden Gate,
Fall Garden Tour,
October 18th, 10 to 4

Garden Event – Self Guided Tour – 8 Gardens

Education Booths, Plant Dr. and Refreshments

$25 Presale / $30 Tour Day / Rain or Shine /
Map provided with ticket
Tickets go on sale September 6
and may be purchased at www.RivieraGardenClub.org,
or In person at Bristol Farms, Redondo Beach or
Villa Hermosa, Torrance.
By mail: J. Young, 5105 Via el Sereno, Torrance, CA 90505
(checks made out to RGC).
OR, on Tour Day - look for the signs and festive umbrellas. Info 310.378.9767.

All attendees must be ticketed except infants in front packs. No strollers please.
Sorry restrooms not available.
Comfortable walking shoes recommended, no high heels – thank you.

Trip - UCLA Gardens, Wednesday, November 19th, 9 to 4, leave from Lago Seco

Bus trip to Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and Hannah Carter Japanese Gardens at UCLA. Docent guided tours provided.

This trip is a celebration and a thank you for everyone that worked on the tour.

Christmas Party at the Doubletree Hotel Penthouse in Torrance,
December 7th, Luncheon at 11:30

Pam and Jim have planned another great party.

Geraniums, January 27th, 9:30-noon, Torrance Airport Meeting Room

Donna Leslie Dennis from the South Bay Geranium Society.

Donna will bring scented geraniums, hand outs and books. She will explain what geraniums are good for our area, discuss pruning, fertilizers and answer questions.

Succulents at the Gardiners, February 24th, 10 to 1

Jan and Jim Gardner's garden.

Tour the Gardner’s garden with succulent accents, green house and succulent propagation work area

Succulent Garden Workshop, March 24th, 9:30-noon

Members meet in Pati Johnson's garage for their annual workshop to plant succulent container gardens for the hospital therapy project. Margarine containers containers are filled with soil and succulents brought by the members. One member takes them home and nurtures them for eight to twelve weeks and then they are donated to Harbor General Hospital.

Tour home gardens, April 28th, 9 to 1

Tour home gardens of our members Meredith Grenier and Aleen Houston. At Aleen’s tour her garden with native accents and watch her composting demonstration. Meredith Grenier, gardening columnist for the Daily Breeze, shows us her home garden.

Discovering the South Coast Botanic Garden, May 24th, 9:30-noon, Torrance Airport Meeting Room

Laurel Woodley, retired Biology Professor from LA Harbor College, volunteering at SCBG for last 3 years recently as a member of team identifying tree and plants in the gardens.

The presentation will provide some background regarding the unique history of SCBG. Followed by an introduction to some of the more outstanding plant collections found at this garden located in the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Installation of Officers and Mad Hatter Lunch, June 16th

Our annual hat decorating contest.