{"id":549,"date":"2022-04-09T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=549"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:52:32","slug":"home-garden-tour-presented-by-calusa-garden-club-of-marco-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Home Garden Tour Presented by Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island – #2 – –"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]

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Submitted By:\u00a0 Sara Wolf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island – Publicity Chairperson<\/p>\n

April 9, 2022<\/p>\n

On Saturday, April 9, Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island hosted a limited admission home garden tour, with 50 guests enjoying four diverse home gardens on Marco Island.\u00a0 The half-day tour was repeated in morning and afternoon sessions, with gardening demonstrations presented to the guests at each home.\u00a0 Both tours concluded with a reception at Calusa Park Butterfly Garden, where guests were welcomed by Club President Susan Neustadt, gifts were given to guests of the Month-By-Month Gardening Guide produced by the Club, and drawings were held for 7 door prizes at each reception.<\/p>\n

The four home gardens included a 2020 Marco In Bloom Award winner: Janice Engel.\u00a0 Engel\u2019s beautiful hillside garden displays large planting areas filled with tropical plants that surround trees and border her front driveway as well as her lanai.\u00a0 One of Engel\u2019s planting areas is centered on a large banyan tree with staghorn ferns hanging from its branches.\u00a0 Surrounding the tree are bromeliads, mother-of -millions, and ginger plants, among others.\u00a0 Another featured garden was Donna Kay\u2019s home, where sunshine mimosa plants replace the front lawn and mature hardwood trees form a canopy for a variety of pollinator plants such as firebush.\u00a0 Kay\u2019s plantings included a collection of varieties of croton plants and a dragon fruit plant that looks like a cactus and climbs on a host tree.\u00a0 Janet Watson offered her home garden for the tour, and her waterside lot features colorful planting beds with several seating area.\u00a0 Watson also cultivates fruit trees and looks forward to harvesting her ponderosa lemons and avocados.\u00a0 The fourth gardener to give tours of her home garden was Sue Oldershaw, who calls her landscape \u201cAn English Cottage Garden\u00a0 — but with Subtropical Plants.\u201d\u00a0 Oldershaw was a 2014 Marco in Bloom Award winner, and her garden features subtropical plants that are either native Florida plants or Florida-friendly plants, arranged along paths and over trellises in a natural manner.\u00a0 She uses very little fertilizer and no water other than what our natural rainfall provides. \u00a0 Highlights of Oldershaw\u2019s garden included unusual native trees: Lignum vitae, chaya and moringa, and a beautiful Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac<\/em>) plant in full flower that filled the air with heavy perfume.<\/p>\n

At each of the four homes, Calusa Garden Club members presented gardening or floral design demonstrations.\u00a0 Monica Doyle worked at Janice Engel\u2019s home where she showed guests how to cut, slit and roll leaves from landscape plants to make unusual shapes that would form the basis for a flower design, or that would add interest to a bouquet.\u00a0 At Donna Kay\u2019s home, Barbara Messner, assisted by Gwyn Goodman and Marsha Riss, illustrated how to cut new plants from \u201cmother\u201d bromeliad plants, and how to pot them or plant them.\u00a0 They answered many questions about the variety and growing habits of bromeliads, whether sun, shade or part-sun.\u00a0 Another demonstration was given by Sharon Lewis at Janet Watson\u2019s home, where she showed the guests how to choose greenery and flowering plants for a planter by using the motto \u201cThriller, Filler and Spiller.\u201d \u00a0 And at Sue Oldershaw\u2019s home, Linda Schwoeppe demonstrated how to glue tillandsia plants to a grapevine wreath in order to make a striking outdoor display.\u00a0 Schwoeppe also educated the guests on cultivation of tillandsias, including their light and water requirements.<\/p>\n

Calusa Garden Club members were thrilled with the positive responses of their guests at the Home Garden Tour and plan to hold another Home Garden Tour in 2023.\u00a0 As the guests and club members mingled at the Calusa Park Butterfly Garden after the two tours, the guests gave the members feedback about what they enjoyed about the event, and club members were able to answer any questions the guests had about the tour gardens, gardening on Marco Island, and the activities of Calusa Garden Club.<\/p>\n

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Submitted By:  Sara Wolf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island - Publicity Chairperson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 9, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, April 9, Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island hosted a limited admission home garden tour, with 50 guests enjoying four diverse home gardens on Marco Island.  The half-day tour was repeated in morning and afternoon sessions, with gardening demonstrations presented to the guests at each home.  Both tours concluded with a reception at Calusa Park Butterfly Garden, where guests were welcomed by Club President Susan Neustadt, gifts were given to guests of the Month-By-Month Gardening Guide produced by the Club, and drawings were held for 7 door prizes at each reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four home gardens included a 2020 Marco In Bloom Award winner: Janice Engel.  Engel\u2019s beautiful hillside garden displays large planting areas filled with tropical plants that surround trees and border her front driveway as well as her lanai.  One of Engel\u2019s planting areas is centered on a large banyan tree with staghorn ferns hanging from its branches.  Surrounding the tree are bromeliads, mother-of -millions, and ginger plants, among others.  Another featured garden was Donna Kay\u2019s home, where sunshine mimosa plants replace the front lawn and mature hardwood trees form a canopy for a variety of pollinator plants such as firebush.  Kay\u2019s plantings included a collection of varieties of croton plants and a dragon fruit plant that looks like a cactus and climbs on a host tree.  Janet Watson offered her home garden for the tour, and her waterside lot features colorful planting beds with several seating area.  Watson also cultivates fruit trees and looks forward to harvesting her ponderosa lemons and avocados.  The fourth gardener to give tours of her home garden was Sue Oldershaw, who calls her landscape \u201cAn English Cottage Garden  -- but with Subtropical Plants.\u201d  Oldershaw was a 2014 Marco in Bloom Award winner, and her garden features subtropical plants that are either native Florida plants or Florida-friendly plants, arranged along paths and over trellises in a natural manner.  She uses very little fertilizer and no water other than what our natural rainfall provides.   Highlights of Oldershaw\u2019s garden included unusual native trees: Lignum vitae, chaya and moringa, and a beautiful Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac<\/em>) plant in full flower that filled the air with heavy perfume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At each of the four homes, Calusa Garden Club members presented gardening or floral design demonstrations.  Monica Doyle worked at Janice Engel\u2019s home where she showed guests how to cut, slit and roll leaves from landscape plants to make unusual shapes that would form the basis for a flower design, or that would add interest to a bouquet.  At Donna Kay\u2019s home, Barbara Messner, assisted by Gwyn Goodman and Marsha Riss, illustrated how to cut new plants from \u201cmother\u201d bromeliad plants, and how to pot them or plant them.  They answered many questions about the variety and growing habits of bromeliads, whether sun, shade or part-sun.  Another demonstration was given by Sharon Lewis at Janet Watson\u2019s home, where she showed the guests how to choose greenery and flowering plants for a planter by using the motto \u201cThriller, Filler and Spiller.\u201d   And at Sue Oldershaw\u2019s home, Linda Schwoeppe demonstrated how to glue tillandsia plants to a grapevine wreath in order to make a striking outdoor display.  Schwoeppe also educated the guests on cultivation of tillandsias, including their light and water requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calusa Garden Club members were thrilled with the positive responses of their guests at the Home Garden Tour and plan to hold another Home Garden Tour in 2023.  As the guests and club members mingled at the Calusa Park Butterfly Garden after the two tours, the guests gave the members feedback about what they enjoyed about the event, and club members were able to answer any questions the guests had about the tour gardens, gardening on Marco Island, and the activities of Calusa Garden Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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