TVGC Activities for February 2025
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
General Membership Meeting
Temecula Community Center
28816 Pujol Street
Temecula, CA 92590
Guests are always welcome
Program: Welcoming Nature to your Garden
Speaker: George Spiliotis
Welcoming Nature to Your Garden presented by George Spiliotis. George is a Master Gardener, a docent at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens, and serves on the board of the Rivers & Lands Conservancy. He will show us a practical introduction to using unique and diverse native plants in landscapes, including their importance to pollinators and other wildlife. The discussion will address things to now and do before planting, basic planning and design considerations, and planting maintenance requirements. Welcoming Nature presentation is a mix of wildlife that can be attracted with native plants and basics of gardening with native plants.
Kate Ensign handles the Grow It and Give It program and delivers our donations each month
to the Murrieta United Methodist Church Food Pantry.
So, please check your pantry for any extra canned or packaged food and bring it to the meeting.
Trips and Tours for Members
Our next trip is in February to the Olive Hill Greenhouse, 1990 Green Canyon Rd. in Fallbrook.
This is a fascinating tour of a commercial greenhouse, with development history and inventive processes.
Lunch will follow the tour at Garden Center Cafe in Fallbrook.
See pictures on Trips and Tours page.
CGCI Floral Design Forum
For more details, go to the Palomar District page.
Let Ruth Lozano know if you want to attend.
The first three of TVGC’s Garden Guide Booklets are available for sale for $5 each.
The first booklet lists trees that grow readily in the Temecula Valley, along with beautiful color photos,
and much information about each species and a location where you can see a real tree of each variety.
The second booklet is on Shrubs for our area, and the third is about Succulents.
These beautiful booklets make great gifts.
Tree Care
This is from a past Master Gardener Workshop. This and more can be found at:
https://www.wmwd.com/539/Master-Gardener-Workshops
June 11, 2022
Speaker: John Huddleston, Owner, Precision Tree Experts
Trees are valuable! Did you know that a healthy and well-placed tree with a good structure could be worth tens of thousands of dollars...sometimes hundreds of thousands?! And think about the wildlife, aesthetics, and shade trees bring to the landscape. According to the study, the right amount of tree cover can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Let's discuss how to keep our trees healthy in this drought period and beyond.
Workshop Handouts: Practical guide to tree trimming | Waterwise tree care
Riverside County Master Gardeners
Here is the link to their website, which contains a huge amount of information and links to other resources:
https://ucanr.edu/sites/RiversideMG/
They also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ucmgriversidecounty/
The West County Events e-Blast is published monthly by the UC Master Gardeners of Riverside County.
Articles highlight upcoming events of Master Gardener Volunteers throughout the western and southern areas of Riverside County.
Great info on MG Training Classes AND Home Gardening Basics
Click on the following link to take you to the archives,
and if you are interested, you can register to receive the e-Blast monthly via your email:
https://ucanr.edu/sites/RiversideMG/News/West_e-Blast/
The Master Gardener e-Blast and website includes information on websites and videos of interest to gardeners,
and garden tips for the current month.
Classes, workshops, schedule of Master Gardeners at Farmers' Markets, and more.
Master Gardener Workshops
Western Municipal Water District partners with the University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardener Program of Riverside County
to host FREE monthly workshops that focus on gardening and efficient outdoor water use.
Workshops are hosted on the second Saturday of each month.
Many of the past presentations can be replayed from the website:
https://www.wmwd.com/539/Master-Gardener-Workshops
March 10, 2023
Speaker: Kathy Steckman
Home Composting — Build a five-star hotel for your worms!
For a replay of this workshop, click on this link: https://youtu.be/6ciBwfO_cA4
Vermicompost has a number of benefits.
Learn the ins and outs of home composting and what an enormous difference it can make in your own home garden.
Healthy soil holds more water than a nutrient deficient soil.
This is an easy money and water-saving practice available to all.
Learn how to create and maintain your own five-star hotel for worms and many other beneficial bugs.
Upcoming Events at Temecula Valley Rose Society
TVRS Monthly Member Program
Date: Third Thursday of the Month, Time: 10:00 a.m.
Place: Temecula Library, Community Room, 30600 Pauba Rd., Temecula
(note: there may be an occasional change)
Refreshments and socializing start at 10am and our program will start at 10:30 a.m.
Guests are welcome!
Please check out our Newsletter at our website for more information about this month's Member Meeting
and for monthly tips and features on roses, as well as
Frank Brines’, Master Consulting Rosarian, monthly column, ”Rose Care FUNdamentals”
at https://www.temeculavalleyrosesociety.org/
To view the "2023-24 Year in Review" Photo Presentation by Bob Boyd, go to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuT6N_WEsM
To view the "2022-23 Year in Review" Photo Presentation by Bob Boyd, go to
To view the "2021-22 Year in Review" Photo Presentation by Bob Boyd, go to
For 2020-21, the COVID pandemic curtailed most in-person gatherings.
As things began to open up... on May 11, 2021, three TVGC members opened their Gardens for a tour.
Here is a link to some video taken by Bob Boyd that day:
At our End of Year meeting in June 2021, (via Zoom), members were shown
'A Virtual Flower Show' prepared by Susan Puma and Bob Boyd,
featuring 150 beautiful photos submitted by TVGC members of their plants
growing in their own gardens.
You can view the Flower Show on You Tube at any time by clicking this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Ip3hTUIpg
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