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TVGC Activities for November 2019

General Meeting
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 – 9:00 am
Temecula Community Recreation Center (CRC)
30875 Rancho Vista Road, Temecula, CA  92592

Guests are Welcome

Holiday Craft Boutique!
14 members will be sharing their talents at our Holiday Craft Boutique.
Stop by and get a head start on your holiday shopping. Starts at 9:00 am.


Program: Techniques for Taking Better Pictures in the Garden            Speaker: Clayton Fogle
Clayton Fogle is a regular guest speaker and instructor of workshops all over the U.S. He holds a B.A. and M.Sc. Degree from
Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California and a Certificate in Digital Multimedia from Technology Development Center.
He will share some of his amazing photos and the tips and techniques anyone can use to take excellent pictures.
Books etc. may be available for purchase.

CGCI Floral Design Forum
November 4, 2019 - Robert L. Gordon AIFD, Ornamental Horticulture Professor and Garden Club member for many years,
is joined by George Speer, NGC Master Judge to answer "Are there still differences between Professional and Garden Club designs?"


Garden Workshops



Trips and Tours

Our next trip will be December 12, 2019.
Go to the Trips and Tours page for details.







Riverside County Master Gardeners Upcoming Events
It's time for Fall Plant Sales


Upcoming Events at Temecula Valley Rose Society
Meetings are held the third Thursday at 10:00 am at the Temecula Library, Community
Room, 30600 Pauba Road. A light potluck lunch is served after the meeting. (April
is reserved for our members Rose garden tours and there is no meeting in July).
Guests are welcome!

Please check out our Newsletter at our website for monthly tips and features on roses, as
well as Frank Brines’, Master Consulting Rosarian, monthly column, ”Rose Care
FUNdamentals” at http://temeculavalleyrosesociety.org/nl/NL201812.shtml.


November Meeting , 10 am, Thursday, November 21, 2019
Topic – Growing Poinsettias at Home
Speaker - Lois Whyde, Horticulturist, UCR Botanic Gardens
Lois has spent 28 years in wholesale nurseries serving as foreman, distribution
manager, production coordinator, inventory supervisor and her most favorite
position-grower. Lois has also worked as a reporter for a small daily newspaper
in Ohio where she started a landscape/horticulture program at an adult education
center retraining adults for careers in landscaping/ nurseries. She was the
coordinator and main teacher of the 13 modules that ranged from propagation,
pruning, turf, irrigation, landscape maintenance, and installation.
For the last 2 years Lois has also been teaching nursery production at Mira
Costa College, Oceanside. This class grows poinsettias, using her experience
growing 150,000 poinsettias at an Armstrong wholesale nursery in Fallbrook.
Please check our Facebook Page Temecula Valley Rose Society for event updates
and our Families in the Garden for our third Saturday of the month.


Families in the Garden will continue their third Saturday of the month programs.
(hiatus during June, July, and August)
Families in the Garden programs are held at Rose Haven garden at
30592 Jedediah Smith Rd in Temecula in the Tree of Life garden area.
@ 9:30-10:30am
Any questions or additional info: Alicia R. Cline at 951-234-2218


 https://www.facebook.com/Temecula-Valley-Rose-Society-180801795279929/

https://www.facebook.com/temecula.rosesociety  (I don't know why they have 2 FB pages.)




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To view the "2018-19 Year in Review" Photo Presentation by Bob Boyd, go to

To view the "2017-18 Year in Review" Photo Presentation by Bob Boyd, go to

To view the "2016-17 Year in Review" Photo Presentation by Bob Boyd, go to

To view photos of the Flower Show and Sale, go to



Introducing New Invitation Card

for members to hand out to prospective new members

"a convenient tool to spread our seeds, cultivate our passion, and grow our membership"

---Bob Boyd, TVGC photographer