The Fremont Garden club provides opportunities to learn and share information about gardening with others who have a passion for and interest in gardening. Members come from throughout the Tri-City Area (Fremont, Newark and Union City, CA).
Monthly meetings are usually on the third Tuesday of each month (usually), February through October.
We meet in member homes and gardens. In addition, we tour several public and private gardens and nurseries each year.
To join or learn the address of our meeting to attend as a guest, contact fremontgardenclubCA@gmail.com. We welcome you!
Next meeting Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – our final meeting of 2025
EARLY MEETING TIME
Socializing and refreshments at 5:00 pm
Program at 6:00 pm Alan Berling will talk about our Winter Gardens
Meet at the LEAF Garden, enter through the Mission Valley Veterinary Clinic Parking lot – drive through the gates onto the LEAF property.
Visitors are always warmly welcome to attend a meeting, and you may join at the meeting. To receive the address for this month’s meeting please email us at fremontgardenclubca@gmail.com. Please contact us by the Monday before the meeting. The day of the meeting we may be too busy to check the club email.
For more information (but it may take a while to get a reply) email us at fremontgardenclubCA@gmail.com
Yearly membership is $30 for individuals and $50 for couples.
Active members may attend all meetings and special events.
Guests are always welcome and may attend one meeting. At the second meeting guests are invited to become club members.
From 1998 – 2001: A few garden enthusiasts in the Glenmoor area of Fremont had been organizing and holding a “Glenmoor Garden Tour”. In 2000 and 2001, Patti Born, Sandy Leonhardt, Kathy Hesser, and Madeline Holmes (with the help of a few other Glenmoor residents) helped with the organization of these tours. Patti Born’s home was showcased on the last “Glenmoor Garden Tour” in 2001. In her passion for gardening, she put out a sign-up sheet for those interested in joining a “Fremont Garden Club”. There were about 12 charter members our first year, 2002. The Glenmoor Tour group transferred the funds from the previous two tours as seed money to get the club started and to be used in the future to beautify our city. (The monies for the “Tree Grants” will come from this generous donation.)
This “new” garden club was formed around our passion for gardening, with an emphasis on having FUN first and foremost, and a “no pressure” to work on projects philosophy. Many areas of our lives expect service and Patti’s vision for this club was to allow as much pleasure as possible and leave the service part to other endeavors the members might be involved in. Patti’s philosophy is: “many hands make light work, and if the work is already light and simple, this should be a pleasure”. Planning and events are meant to be a “team effort” so that no one person is overburdened. Our hope and desire was that this “Fremont Garden Club” could feed all members passion and give you great pleasure.
The first two years, 2002 and 2003, we held the “Fremont Garden Tour” with great success. It was great fun, but also a lot of work. In the years since, we have focused on activities for the group to enjoy. Meetings and tours are centered around learning, sharing, and enjoying every aspect of gardening.