Presentations and Handouts
Contained within this page are video presentations and/or handouts from guest speaker presentations at the monthly garden club meeting. Additionally, from time to time, content will be added to provide educational opportunities for our club members and visitors to the website.
Common Home-Grown Herbs and their Medicinal Properties
March 6, 2024
Florence Lefranc is a Certified Medicinal Herbalist, Certified Nutrition Therapist, and a Cosmetic and Supplement formulator. She offers health related consultations online. She has developed her own brand of herbal products and formulates and manufactures products for other companies. She also loves to share her knowledge and enjoys hosting workshops.
As our March 2024 guest speaker, Florence spoke about the common herbs we can grow in our garden, how to grow them and their medicinal properties, the different ways of using herbs daily (addition to food, brewed as a tea, skin ointments) and the quality of herbs and how to choose them.
Fungi
Joanne Schwartz is an avid amateur mycologist, having studied fungi since the 1960’s. She has collected and photographed fungi throughout the new and old world and has participated in field studies in Japan, Peru and Bolivia, as well as the Redwoods of Coastal California.
Joanne helped us explore the fascinating world of the kingdom of fungi. She described methods for locating and identifying wild mushrooms in Southern California and beyond.
Part 1:
What Is Upcycled Art
Where Can Materials Be Found To Create Upcycled Art
Where Does Sea Glass and Sea Pottery Come From
Click the following link to view the presentation: Part 1
Upcycled Garden Art
HOT COLOR, DRY GARDEN
COLOR-FILLED & WATERWISE-COLORFUL PLANTS
Designing with color is exciting, but it can also be a little intimidating and challenging to know where to start. Well known author, Nan Sterman, demonstrated all the ways to introduce color into the garden at the October 6, 2021 garden club meeting.
The Handout provides a List of plants that will add Hot Color to a Dry Garden.
Propagating, Dividing and Planting
This informative video will provide you with information and techniques to become successful when propagating and dividing plants. You will learn techniques to utilize when:
Propagating Geraniums, Plectranthus and Begonias
Dividing Plants and Bulbs
Preparing and Planting Succulent Cuttings utilizing the Thriller-Filler-Spiller method
After watching the video, head to your garden and put your newfound knowledge to practice by propagating and dividing your own plants.
Dark Orchids
Fred Clarke has been an avid orchid grower for over 30 years. His plants have received hundreds of awards from the American Orchid Society. He joins us again this year to share his passion and curiosity for Venezuela’s National Flower, the Catteya mossiae.
January 6, 2021
Lotusland
An informative discussion about Lotusland and Organic Gardening with Cory Welles.
Botanical Gardens
A discussion of Botanical Gardens and the Proposed New Gardens in Orange County.