Summer garden tours

By Denise Stewart

Evening tours of local gardens bring local plant enthusiasts together each month during the warm weather. To enjoy and share the products of their efforts, Scripps-Mesa Garden Club has a schedule of monthly garden visits.

In May, Sal Castillito hosted the club at his garden. Castillito is an epiphyllum lover and dazzled the group with more than 300 plants, many of which were in extravagant bloom. His garden is also home to several rare fruit trees and tropical flora.

In June, Karen Lopez will share her buds and blooms with the club. In August, a tour of the Glenn’s outdoors will include both the areas of professionally designed landscape and the wooden growing boxes used by the residents for their personal crops. Karen Nickel will host that event.

When the weather cools and the days shorten, the Garden Club will return to the local library Community Room on the fourth Tuesdays at 6 p.m. for monthly meetings. Each month a speaker will share their gardening knowledge with the group. Master gardeners are often featured.

Information about the club and local garden interests are featured on the website: scrippsmesagardenclub.com.