Yearly Events:
Flower Show and Scholarship Luncheon
 Flower Show
Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6, 2012
Show open Saturday 2:00 until 5:00 pm,
Sunday 10:00 am until 4:00 pm
Plant Sale open Sat from
12:30 to 5:00 pm, Sun from 10:00 am to 4:00pm
The public is urged to participate in this
free and fun
event.
The Flower
Show,
held at the Brengle Terrace Park Recreation Center, (1200 Vale Terrace, Vista)
provides the public an opportunity to compete artistically and technically by
showing their horticulture and floral designs.
All
amateur gardeners are encouraged to enter
.
Click
here
to see the 2012 schedule
There
is no entry fee and
the show is free and open to the public. We refer to it as "Our gift to the
community." To see a slide show of some of the entries in one of our shows
click
here
Horticulture
There
are 13 sections and over 50 classes of horticulture to which
participants may enter their specimens. The sections for container plants
include flowering plants, those grown only for foliage, succulents/cacti and
orchids. The sections for cut specimens include a great collection of the many
varieties of plants that grow in this area. Many awards of excellence are presented.
Design
There are nearly 40 displays of interesting floral designs in nine different
classes. The miniatures are always a show stopper. The smallest is 3
inches or less in any dimension. The show is a Standard Flower Show and is
judged by accredited judges and many awards are presented.
There is a Plant Sale in the Patio area from noon
until 6:00 on Saturday and from 9:30 until 4:30 on Sunday. Most of these plants are
grown and propagated by club members and are donated
and offered for sale to help defray the expense of the show. This
sale is a very popular community event. It is organized and
supervised by one of our members who is a professional horticulturist and can
give reliable advice about the plants.
Scholarship Luncheon
November 4, 2011
The Club awards scholarships to area college students majoring in
horticulture or related fields. To finance these awards we hold what we
have come to call a Scholarship Luncheon. This affair is put on entirely
by members. They cook and
serve the food, make the decorations, collect or
donate items for a drawing and an auction and clean up after lunch.
This
year (2011/2012) the luncheon will be held at the Grace Presbyterian Church, 1450
East Vista Way in Vista. Lunch will be
served at noon and tickets are $20.
Since this program started in 1994 the Vista Garden Club has donated
over $45,000 in scholarships to students of
Mira Costa College. The 2010 luncheon was so well attended and
the generous donations by members netted enough profit to provide four $1000 scholarships to Mira Costa College Horticulture students.
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or write to us at
P.O. Box 44,Vista,
CA 92085-0044
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