The Gardening Group meets designated months of the year, 4th Thursdays, 10 am – noon, to tour gardens or hear a presentation, and share knowledge and ideas with fellow gardeners. As you can see from photos below, they are always doing something interesting! Contact Brett McWilliams or Carol Raynsford, Gardening Group leaders, for information and to be included on their mailing list.
Activities listed below are for the 2025-26 year, with Carol & Brett splitting responsibilities among them:
- September 25: Plant exchange; Patricia Wolfe, 117 Low Hills Rd, NC, Carol
- October 23: Native plant talk, care, & sale; Justin Maciulis; Carol
- October 30: Pumpkin/succulent Deco, Shanti Emerson; Carol
- November 20: Wreath or basket making; TBD, Carol
- December 18; Holiday luncheon @ Highland Nursery Cafe; Brett
- January 22: Master Gardening speaker; TBD, Brett
- February 26: Making Kokadama; Teri McConnell; Carol
- March 26: Dawn’s Garden Tour; Barry Friesen, 14446 Perimeter Rd., GV; Carol
- April 23: Member garden tours; Jennifer Wilkerson, et.al.; Brett
- May 28: Park-like evergreen garden tour; Patty & Bob Park; 10775 Banner View Dr., GV
- June 25: Sierra Harvest; 16200 Lake Vera, Purdon Rd., NC; Brett
May 2025: Visit to a member’s herb garden.
May 2024: The Gardening Group visited native plants garden off of Lost Lake Road.
December 2023 (below) – The group returned once again to High-Hand Cafe for a holiday luncheon.
November 28, 2023
Here you see the group gathered in Janine Martin’s garage to create holiday wreaths. As is obvious from the photos, they knew what they were doing! Beautiful, colorful, and handily crafted holiday wreaths!!
On October 26, 2023, the group’s purchased tickets gave them an afternoon of champagne, coffee, scones, fruit, sandwiches, and a creative session in learning how to assemble beautiful pumpkin centerpieces at New Life Nursery in Penn Valley.
May 25, 2023, the Gardening Group visited Empire Mine, where they were given a tour by fellow AAUW member and Empire Mine docent Kris Vasser.
Orchid presentation, February 2023; 15 in attendance!
The group met twice in December. On December 5, 2022, they gathered at Janine’s to assemble Christmas wreaths: Mid-December, they met for lunch at High-Hand Cafe in Loomis.
