In 1977, The Lake Chapala Garden Club was founded in Ajijic, Mexico. Ajijic is on the shores of Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest fresh water lake. We are an international garden club with members from many different countries. Our members and meetings explore the many garden species and practices unique to our area of Mexico.

This non-profit organization exists for the purpose of promoting an interest, appreciation and better understanding of botanical subjects including but not limited to all plant materials, their care and use in the home and garden.

Click here to reserve now for this month's meeting!

Our own Board member Nancy Web was our speaker in July. She gave a wonderful talk on "Herbs for Health" and here is a link to her talk (as a word document).

Many people have been asking where to get good soil amendments here at lakeside. Well, we finally have a source for real honst to goodness compost! Senor Sabas Lopez does the composting himself and has large bags available for 30 pesos. This is COMPOST, not 'hal'. His cell phone number is 333 597-9498.

A garden club in New Zealand has sent us a link for gardens to visit. So if anyone is tripping there look them up!

October 2007 - We took a field trip to see the wild flowers. Click here for the details to see map and directions.

Plaza planting: A big thank you to Trudie Nelson for nurturing the plaza project and to Beb Hord our Plaza Chairwoman and.... Thanks to all the members who come to weed, prune and plant! Check out the pictures on the Plaza page

Check out the Good Gardening page for new links to articles on a a host of lakeside gardening projects. This month's feature is Plants that Can Take the Heat . You can also read Months in the Garden for what to prune, plant or buy this month.

Check Monthly Meetings for details of this month's meeting and highlights of recent meetings. The handouts have their own page if you missed getting one. Ross Mitchell's notes on Growing Vegetables is now there. Reta Brae's herb notes are also there. We have "tree plaga" now in several trees in the plaza and it is still increasing at a rapid rate here in town. This is the orange flowered or spaghetti type parasite that attacks our trees.

Visit our Photo Gallery for photos of last month's garden visit, and our Botanical Information page for this month’s featured flower.