From 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, the Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island invites the Marco Island community to gather at the Marco Lutheran Church parking lot for the Annual Plant and Floral Design Sale.
More than just a marketplace for green thumbs and garden lovers, this event has blossomed in 2025 into a celebration of nature, creativity, and community spirit, with the club inviting families with children to experience the beauty of plants while cultivating memories together through the addition of a Family Fall Festival to the day’s events.
The Sale: A Kaleidoscope of Colors and Scents
The focus of the Calusa Garden Club Plant Sale in 2025 is butterfly host plants. This year’s Plant and Floral Design Sale Chairman Rhonda Gloodt is a well-known “butterfly whisperer.”
The sale will offer vibrant and colorful host and nectar plants for butterflies and other pollinators. But the club’s members will also be presenting ever-popular bromeliads in all shapes and sizes, staghorn ferns, succulents, and other healthy gardener-grown plants for landscapes, lanais, and living rooms. And orchid grower Charlette Roman will once again offer her multiple species of orchids for sale…