The Wellington Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, Oct. 7 at the Wellington Community Center, located at 12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd. The meeting will feature a presentation at 10 a.m. by Tom Ramiccio on bromeliads and how to propagate them.
When Ramiccio ran out of space for bromeliads in his Lake Worth yard, he planted them on trees, creating a vertical garden of the colorful, water-holding “vase” plants. He estimates that he has about 7,000 bromeliads in his collection. Ramiccio brings with him more than 40 years of professional marketing and public relations experience. He served three terms as mayor of the City of Lake Worth and was the president/CEO of the Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce for 10 years. As the marketing manager for Banyan Printing, he oversaw all major marketing campaigns for large corporate clients and several sports franchises. He served as the marketing director for the Palm Beach County Visitors and Convention Bureau, governor of the Florida District of Kiwanis International and was a Salvation Army board member.
The community is invited to join the club for coffee, snack items and to partake in an amazing plant raffle at 9:30 a.m. Visitors are asked to check-in at the guest table. To reserve a spot, contact Carol Ralph at caroltaylorralph@gmail.com.
The Wellington Garden Club, founded in 1981, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating its members and the public in the fields of gardening, horticulture, floral design, landscape and landscape design. It also works to promote conservation of natural resources, civic beautification and youth education.
For more information, visit www.wellingtongardenclub.org.
