Laguna Beach Garden Club Monthly Meeting and Speaker Series on October 10
The next monthly meeting of the Laguna Beach Garden Club (LBGC) will be held on Friday, Oct. 10 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. featuring Holiday Decorating with Plants with Greg Salmeri and Laurie Resnick.
Salmeri and his partner Resnick have spent decades transforming indoor environments using plants, furnishings and decorative flourishes. The pair began their 32-year partnership as interior “plantscapers,” an element of their business they still maintain, along with the Associated Group, which produces large-scale holiday decorations.
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Laurie Resnick and Greg Salmeri will be featured on October 10
They are the owners of Rolling Greens, which is comprised of two acres of landscaping, garden and a home design emporium in the Arts District in Los Angeles, in addition to two additional stores in Studio City and Beverly Grove.
Salmeri and Resnick spent three years planning and constructing the 15,000-square-ft. showroom that contains various smaller spaces ranging from a prep kitchen to a gallery, and the other adapted into a greenhouse. This store is the flagship of Rolling Greens, which is where they developed the concept of a full-service gardening store that then developed into an event space as well.
Resnick began her college career at UC Irvine as a pre-med student before shifting her focus to political science, earning a B.A. from Cal State Fullerton in 1977. Her father had a background in urban planning and was the first mayor of La Mirada, so the political science influence came from her dad. She went on to work as a political analyst in Garden Grove, but soon her connection to the plant world sparked a different passion. In 1979, she founded Laurie’s Plants, an interior-scape company that quickly established her as an entrepreneur in the growing L.A. market. In 1984, she met Salmeri in a Newport Beach greenhouse, and the rest is history.
Salmeri loves to collect eclectic items from around the world and then find perfect homes for each piece – from opium beds, French wrought iron chairs to fountains and everything in between. He loves French modern and creating a super eclectic space in his own spectacular home garden. Salmeri states that his love of the garden came from his mother, who was an avid gardener. He is an incredible friend of the Laguna Beach Garden Club; he opened his magnificent Emerald Bay Garden to the club for the 2019 Gate & Garden tour. That began the legacy of tours being sold out, thanks to his incredible generosity. This meeting will surely be a packed house to see these speakers show attendees how to decorate like they do for their celebrity clients.
Join the LBGC on Friday, Oct. 10 from 9:30-10 a.m. for social time and refreshments – the meeting begins promptly at 10 a.m. Meetings are held at Laguna Presbyterian Church in Tankersley Hall located at 415 Forest Ave., Laguna Beach. Non-members are invited to attend for free on their first visit. For more information on the garden club, go to www.lagunabeachgardenclub.org.
There is no parking in the church parking lot, but there is plenty of street parking available.
