Ceres Garden Club of California

Past Projects

  • Collaborated with Monica Perrone, ASLA (landscape architect) on entry gardens and front driveway of historic Whitmore Mansion for Designer's Showhouse 2007 benefiting Community Hospice.

  • Trees at Ceres Riverbluff Regional Park.

  • Daniel Whitmore House. Assist the City of Ceres with pruning rose garden.

  • Daniel Whitmore House - donated flag pole and flag.

  • Workdays to help maintain landscaping at the Masonic Family Center Garden.

  • Donations to Alexander Cohen Hospice House Garden.

  • Water Wise Project.

  • Donations to Ceres High School Sober Grad Night Fund.

  • Donations to Ceres High School Scholarship Fund.

  • Waterford Box and Fruit Gardeners, Waterford Middle School.


  • Grizzly Gardeners, Sinclear Elementary School.

Pine tree

Penny Pines Plantations

  • The Ceres Garden Club purchased its first Penny Pines Plantation in May 2001 in memory of Irmie Barnes, the founder of the original club.

  • Additional Penny Pines Plantations to date: In memory of Esther Gnesa; in honor of Ceres Masonic Family Center; Ceres Garden Club Members; City of Ceres; Jim and Colleen Bergamaschi; in memory of Shelly Ann Calhoun; in memory of Sergeant Howard Stevenson; in honor of Ceres Servicemen and Servicewomen; Larry and Pat Askew; Shirley Davis and Margie Bogard.