The Palisades Garden Club will meet via Zoom at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 3. The speaker will be Diana Roy of the Resendiz Brothers Nursery. Her talk will focus on protea, pincushions, lecadendrons and other flowers that the nursery raises.
Born and raised in Southern California, Roy has been passionate about flowers her entire life. “I am a flower farmer, mostly protea and Australian wildflowers,” said Roy, who is the business manager at Protea Growers. “I’ve been at Resendiz Brothers for 21 years and love it.”
Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers was launched in 1999 with a passion for growing exotic flowers and providing customers the highest quality products and service. Growers started as a family business focused on proteas and has grown into a “boutique” type flower farm. More than 350 variety of flowers and foliage are now cultivated.
Other Garden Club speakers planned for this year are those who will address Spiny Succulents (November 7), Botanical Art (December 5), Garden Design (January 9) and Bee Raising (March 6).
The Garden Club is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Each year the group hosts a Spring Garden Tour to raise funds to support local gardening and beautification project. New members are sought (Visit: pacpalgardenclub.org).
If a resident would like to attend the Zoom meeting, please send an email to pacpalgardenclub@gmail.com.