President’s Message
🌼 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 🌼
Well, our 2026 annual Plant Sale is history. We will have worked about 27 Saturdays, plus the 5 weekdays before Sale Day. We averaged about 20 DIG’ers at each Saturday who worked, laughed, made new friends, and had fun each week. Sale day was all hands-on deck and we had about 45 DIG’ers, family members and students working the Sale. The Board and I want to extend our sincere thank you to each and everyone who helped this year, whether you worked one or every workday! We had a little over 5,000 plants and sold a lot. We also had a lot of plants left over. I have no report yet on what we grossed, but I’m confident we had another successful Sale. If you are wondering what happens to all the left-over plants, we offer them to nonprofit organizations in East County including schools, a food bank, churches, etc., and our members for free. What is left over after that is either composted or members plant sit perennials for next years sale.
Now you can put more time in your own garden, travel, enjoy your summer. Many of you will quickly miss our Saturday workdays and look forward to September, when we start our propagation program all over again and prepare for our 2027 Annual Plant Sale.
Thank you again for your hard work over the last eight months.
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Our next regular meeting is Monday, May 18 , 2026, 7:30pm at the Brentwood Community Methodist Church, 809 Second Street, Brentwood, CA
The public is welcome to attend. Our Program will be:
Join us this month to welcome and learn from Master Gardener Anna Wendorf for an inspiring discussion of Pollinator Gardens! Pollinator gardens offer nectar, host plants, as well as a variety of nesting sites, that are beautiful through all seasons of the year. We’ll get curious about native bees, honeybees and other insects – identifying a few of the most common garden visitors and talk about creating a habitat to support them. We’ll cover tips for planning, planting and maintaining a garden that is alive and healthy.
Anna Wendorf has been a Master Gardener for 6 years. She teaches about pollinators and native plants and has created several demonstration gardens. She has been a practicing landscape designer for 40 years in the bay area.
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