September 10th Meeting

Hello everyone and welcome to the 23nd season of the Ramona Garden Club. After talking with many of you over the past several months, I can see and feel the positive energy about the 2025-2026 year. I believe it will result in an impressive list of accomplishments thru increased collaboration and appreciation for new and innovative ideas. 

Our theme this year “Supporting the Native Bees in Our Community” provides for numerous tangible activities for both individual gardeners as well as club initiatives to support and help educate our community. By a wide margin, the number one group of pollinators in San Diego County is the 700 species of native bees, most of which also reside in the Ramona Valley. 

Your Executive Board will continue requesting occasional input via surveys to ensure we provide the programs you want. Utilizing the speaker survey results from May, Bonnie Crawford, VP – Programs, has worked tirelessly this summer to bring us an impressive line-up of guest speakers. And, she is always looking for interesting field trip venues, so please reach out to her with any ideas, especially ones you have enjoyed visiting.

The fall plant & crafts sale is scheduled for Saturday, November 1, 2025, and plans are already under way in preparation for the spring 2026 Garden Tour, and plant sale. This is our major fund raiser for the year, and will take place on Saturday, May 2, 2026. 

These events are a terrific opportunity for new and existing members to build the critical relationships, and have fun doing it, our club needs to continue “giving back” to our community.

Thank you in advance, for what I know will be a very successful, and rewarding year.

Robert Holton