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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.

Calusa Garden Club presented a Home Garden Tour on Saturday April 9 to 50 interested public guests.  The half-day tour featured four extremely varied home gardens on Marco Island owned by Garden Club members.

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members attended a workshop on February 21 on making tillandsia wreaths.  Horticulture chairperson Linda Schwoeppe presented a brief information session on growing requirements for tillandsias.

The Calusa Garden Club committee went to work. Sharon Lewis, Eva Kubinsky, and Monique Doyle were the main committee members who provided the designs in 2020 and planted the container plants in 2021-2022.

Speaker Alice White addressed the members on Planting Native Trees.  White is President of People for Trees, Inc., a 501(c) 3 charitable and educational organization with its headquarters in North Port, Florida. 

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members hosted a Christmas flower arranging workshop at Marco Island Library.  The workshop is underwritten by Friends of the Library and is free to the participants who register through the Library.

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members celebrated the holidays with a “Black and White” Gala at the Marco Island Yacht Club on Tuesday, December 7. Members and their guests dressed in black and white.

Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members Gadabouts group visited Fort Myers on Tuesday, December 9, 2021 to enjoy a docent-led tour of the Ford and Edison Estates.  The Gadabouts group visits destinations of interest to garden club members every month

On Tuesday, November 22, 2021, Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island held a Plant, Thanksgiving Arrangement, and Succulent Dish Garden Sale for the public. The sale was held outdoors at Marco Lutheran Church parking lot. What a success!

On Monday, October 18, Calusa Garden Club members met at Linda Schwoeppe’s home for an educational workshop on orchid cultivation. Schwoeppe, who is the Horticulture Chairman for the club, is a member of Gulf Coast Orchid Society and has grown hundreds of orchids and displays them at her home.