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About
Us 
Welcome
to the Poway Valley Garden Club located in the City
of Poway,
The City in the Country
Organized and federated since September 1961
Member
of...
National
Garden Clubs, Inc., Pacific Region
California
Garden Clubs, Inc.
Palomar
District of CGCI
Affiliate
Member of...
San Diego Botanical Foundations, Inc.
The Nature Conservancy
San
Diego Floral Association
Our
Objectives…
* to promote interest in gardening and related creative activities
* to encourage improvements, beautification of our community
and personal property
Next
Poway Valley Garden Club Meeting to be held
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
location to be announced
October's meeting is: at Templars Hall, Old Poway Park
Check
our calendar
for future programs and field trips.
Next
PVGC Board Meeting to be held
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
1 p.m. at The Parlor, Old Poway Park
What's
New
Poway
Valley Garden Club Newsletter for:
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GRANT FOR TEMPLARS HALL NATIVE PLANT GARDEN
"Dear Garden Club Members:
Congratulations!
California Garden Club, Inc., is extremely pleased to announce that your club's "Let's Go Native" project was automatically submitted for a CALIFORNIA GARDEN CLUB, INC., grant and was awarded $250.00 from the California Garden Club, Inc.
Sincerely,
Robin Pokorski, President
California Garden Clubs, Inc. "
These monies along with funds from the City of Poway will be used to
purchase plants for the garden around Templars Hall. Date for the planting will be advertised as soon as we can make the arrangements.
Useful Information:
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Join
Us
Do
you have the interest to grow things and learn more about
gardening in our area?
Are you interested in meeting and knowing people who like
to garden?
Do you have problems in your yard and garden
you would like to learn how to fix them?
You are welcomed to join Poway Valley
Garden Club organized since 1961.
Membership dues are $20 July-June. Members joining
after February 1 will pay $10 and their membership expires
June 30th.
Poway
Valley Garden Club Membership Brochure
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Co-President's
Message
Welcome to a new year of garden clubbing! This is an exciting time and adventure for me and I hope to have fun, share and celebrate gardening with you. The theme this year is “Garden Passport of the World”. 
This summer members have designed a new yearbook, scheduled exciting programs, reevaluated our projects, publicized our club and added new sections to our newsletter, all to promote the opportunity for our members to share their garden knowledge, plants, friendships and acknowledge and thank the work our members do.
We are starting the year with all our committee chairpersons filled – thank you to all members who agreed to take on these positions. My wish is that all members support and help one another to accomplish the projects and goals our club has decided upon.
A special thank you to Gail Matson who has done a phenomenal job creating our yearbook and getting it printed. Your new yearbook is now a PVGC Passport. Please bring it to all meetings, use it to take notes, post reminders and schedule garden visits. I hope this will be a useful tool, so put your PVGC Passport in your purse and bring it to every meeting.
This year we have exciting, insightful programs including accomplished speakers such as Pat Welsh, Evelyn Weidner, Patrick Anderson, Greg Rubin and Connie Beck.
Let us have a fun year as we get to know one another and grow together in garden club. As our CGCI President, Robin Pokorsky, said “the best part of garden clubbing is YOU.”
-Rosemary Anderson
Executive
Board
| Co-President |
Lucille Rosicky |
| Co-President |
Rosemary Anderson |
| 1st Vice President |
Martha Silvia Griffin |
| 2nd Vice President |
Karen Sanchez |
| Recording Secretary |
Emily Troxell |
| Corresponding Secretary |
Rosemary Anderson |
| Treasurer |
De Anne Cole |
| Parliamentarian |
Lou Ann Unger |
Our
next Board Meeting is Wednesday, Wednesday, September 3, 2008
at the Parlour in Old Poway Park
History
by Judy Nemec and proofed by Betty
Brandow
The Beginning
The Poway Valley Garden Club began in the fall of
1961 with the efforts of Gwen Stockes and 34 other charter
members. The dues were $4.00 a year with a $1 initiation
fee and the Club met twice a month at member homes.
There was much interest and involvement in
the growing community. Contacts were made in regard to unsightly
appearance of shopping centers, and awards were made to
those who had made significant improvements at business
sites.
Civic Activity
One has to be impressed with
the activity of the early Club. There was a need to raise
money, so many plant sales occurred, as-well-as pancake
breakfasts. The money often went to beautification projects.
In return for the use of school or Church facilities, plantings
were made; trees were regularly planted on Arbor Day, and
the grounds of the Poway Valley Riders Association was landscaped
with the advice, help and donations from Club members. Plantings
were also made at the San Pasqual Wild Animal Park. Several
years of discussion about plantings at “Welcome to
Poway” signs in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce
led eventually to the installation of a water supply at
the west entrance to town on Poway Road and a donation toward
the planting. Click on arbor day photo to make larger.
Projects
 Through
the years many projects were supported by the Club. Besides
beautification of Poway, garden therapy – which was
directed toward a retirement home – was a civic activity.
For a time there was support of Girl Scout troops and the
world gardening project collected money for seeds and implements
and scholarships to help Korea. During the whole history
of the Club, money has been collected to plant trees in
the Cleveland National Forest. As of September 2005, 50
one-acre plantations have been planted. A special community-wide
effort to collect money for this was made in September 1970
because of a forest fire. In 2004 the Club to ok
on responsibility for planting and maintaining three raised
beds in a periodmotif at the Nelson House in Old Poway Park.
Traditions
For many years there was a Husband’s
Night potluck dinner. Continuing to the present is the annual
December holiday party with the gift exchange, silent auction
and food collection. Another continuing activity since 1967
is the weekly donation of arrangements to the Library.
Activities
The early Club was very interested in birds
and developed an extensive list of the birds in the area,
as-well-as built feeding stations to sell. From the start
through the 1990’s they participated in the Pow Wow
Days activities, sometimes having a parade entry, exhibit
or produce show and competition. 
From the late 60’s through 1975 the
Club was responsible for the Colorful Gardens feature in
the PowayNewsChieftain. At various times there was involvement
in tree recycling and clean-up campaigns – the Club
even has its own 30 gallon garbage can!
Meetings
During the 1st two decades, the Club was so
interested in flower design that there were often two meetings
a month – one of which was a workshop. During the
first years the meetings were held at a variety of member
homes. The Community Church was used for large occasions
and later for regular meetings. For many years the club
met in a large room in the trailer home of Linnie Haley.
The Haleys also stored Club properties and the Library materials.
In 1986 the trailer park was sold and the Club began meeting
at the Lake Poway Pavilion. Because of the rose garden maintenance
done by the Club, the rental fee there was waived. Increasing
membership was almost always a desire; but while the Club
was meeting at the Haley’s there was a proposal to
limit membership to 50 because of the space available. Teas
were held, sometimes twice a year to attract people. Those
who did join were given small plants during some of the
years.
The Rose Garden
The Rose Garden at Lake Poway was started
with 16 bare-root bushes being planted in 1973. Over the
years many roses had to be replaced because of inadequate
watering, being eaten by pests, being destroyed during re-landscaping
and road construction. A drip system was finally installed
by Club members in the late 90’s, and the Park overhauled
the system and took responsibility for it in 1999. Various
fences were put in place, one in 1975 as a result of large
personal donations. In the earlier years the annual January
rose pruning was a big activity that attracted lots of people.
The North County Rose Society gave instructions and our
Club either held a potluck luncheon for those involved or
provided sandwiches, dessert and drinks to the attendees.
The demonstrations terminated with the arrival in town of
Anderson’s Nursery in 1999 and their demonstrations.Click
on rose pruning photo to make larger.
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1973 Rose Garden
at Poway Lake |
2005 Rose Garden
at Poway Lake |
Visit
our Rose Garden Project...
Donations
 The
Club treasury never got anywhere near $1000 in the early
years. Money was donated to many causes. A big one of the
70’s was the building of a sensory trail for the blind
at the Cabrillo National Monument. They also donated for
the placement of Blue Star Memorial markers and to the American
Land Trust and several other organizations. Since before
the new Library was built, the Club has donated money for
a subscription to Sunset Magazine and/or California Gardens.
The Club gave up its primary money maker – spring
and fall plant sales – because they could not compete
with the offerings in the grocery stores as of 1979. At
the end of the 90’s the treasury balance was averaging
just over $1000. Selling Visions of Beauty calendars was
then a major source of money.
Flower Shows
Flower Shows began in l962. There
were 15 annual shows, and then members began to vote against
the effort in much of the 80’s and most of the 90’s.
The sites have been Valley Elementary School, Poway High
School, Meadowbrook Middle School, the Poway Community Center
and finally Old Poway Park. To finance the early shows,
ads were sold for the Schedule, and then in 1965 they listed
donors. Few shows occurred in the 80’s and 90’s,
but resumed when the City of Poway offered generous support
in combination with the Earth/Arbor Day celebrations. There
have been 28 shows in the 43 year history (2005). Click
on photo to make larger.
Save
the Eagles
A long-time project until recently was the
collection of commemorative cancelled stamps. The stamps
were sold to dealers and the money raised went to saving
eagles.
We look forward to more years of interesting
programs and tours, the increase of membership and the involvement
of all in the activities of the Club.
To-date we have...
- Contributed to 55 Pennies
Pines Plantings
- Held twenty-eight Standard Flower Shows
- Contributed toward purchase of Pygmy Forests
and Save the Torrey Pines
- Participated in many other projects pertaining
to horticulture, for example check out Projects.
Contact
Us
We would like hearing from you at powayvalleygardenclub
at hotmail dot com
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to @ and "dot" to a . and remove
all spaces. This will help us to avoid spam email. Thank
you!
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