Community Projects

Community Projects
- ARBOR DAY -
March 2007 - A California Sycamore tree was planted at Applegate Park in Mission Viejo in celebration of Arbor Day.		National Arbor Day is the last Friday in April. Canyon Crest Garden Club celebrates Arbor Day by ceremonial plantings close to that date in April. Thus far, our Club has planted California Pepper trees at Rancho Canada Elementary School in Lake Forest, Biloxi Crepe Myrtles and Brisbane Box trees along the Oso Creek Trail, Liquid Amber trees in Montbury Park and Sycamore trees in Applegate Park. Our club has also honored Mission Viejo City Landscape Architects with a CGCI award for their outstanding landscape design for the new city library. The presentation was made by the CGCI President and Landscape Chairman and attended by the Mayor and City Council.
- - - - -		- FLORENCE JOYNER OLYMPIAD PARK -
Members working to maintain the roses at Florence Joyner Olympiad Park.		The Canyon Crest Garden Club helped to plant and maintains the 300 plus roses at Florence Joyner Olympiad Park. "This garden, in collaboration with Canyon Crest Garden Club, a member of National Garden Club, is an ongoing educational project. Members volunteer their time and talent tending the roses, bringing beauty and joy to the residents of Mission Viejo."
- Garden Therapy -
The Garden Therapy Team was privileged to provide flowers for the Special Olympics that were held this year at Saddleback College . (Photo) The Garden Therapy Team is planning to participate with Habitat for Humanity on a project in San Juan Capistrano later this year. We also have two ongoing projects which are providing flowers/plants on a monthly basis for hospice patients in South Orange County through Asera Hospice and monetary support for projects sponsored by Heifer International. We are also available to help our members with gardening chores on an as needed basis.
ARTES DE LA VIDA (Arts of Life)		- - - - -
A ten-year community project created by the City of Mission Viejo as an extension of the recently completed “Tierra Nativa – Celebration of the Native Land”. Mission Viejo ’s commitment to the environment will resume as this new event will blend the Arts and the Environment. The program will continue to be celebrated as the City’s Earth Day, Arbor Day and Volunteer Connection Day and will also partner with the Imagination Celebration of Orange County. As in the past, residents will also have the opportunity to assist in landscape renovation through planting.
- - - - -		- PENNY PINES -
		The national forests in California cover some 20 million acres, or about 1/5 of the state. That is equal to an area just slightly larger than the state of South Carolina . Stretching from the Mexican border to Oregon , these forests include a variety of terrain and vegetation types. These areas of great beauty and majestic stature are plagued by divesting problems, such as natural and man-caused fire, pests and disease. These cause vast depletion and destruction of the national forests in California . It takes thousands of firefighters and hundreds of pieces of specialized equipment working long hours to control these blazing infernos. Fires like these leave total destruction in their wake. As destructive as fires are, disease and insect infestation destroy seven times more forest vegetation annually than fires because forests pests are scattered and not easily detected, so are harder to control. In time some land may recover naturally. Penny Pines provides a helping hand. It is a conservation program in which everyone can participate.