Garden Club meeting features Boddaert talk

FALLBROOK – The first Fallbrook Garden Club meeting of the year was held Sept. 25 at the Fallbrook Community Center and members gathered to hear its program, "Reverence for Nature." The center-stage tables were festooned with flowers and plants from all over the world.

The "Tree Man of Fallbrook and Maker of Gardens," Roger Boddaert, began by holding up a globe of the earth and saying, "This is where we live. This is where we shall pass, but in the interim, let's take better care of Mother Earth and be respectful of all that lives here."

Boddaert recounted the long history of his gardening pas...