May 2026 MGOC Garden Tour

Garden Tour with the Christensens These pages are for self-guided tour information on some of the…

The larger of the two staghorns in the Magnolia tree belonged to Kim’s grandma Elmina. We…

We built the raised beds after kids were no longer using the yard. Shortly after we…

My wife Kim went to high school and college in Hawaii. We still have many friends…

My mom remarried in the mid-1970’s, to an eccentric retired gentleman of means who enjoyed spending…

Our son Glen was taken from us by melanoma in 2015 at the age of 25.…

We have three Hawaiian palms in our front yard. The two nearest the front door are…

Kim’s grandmother on her father’s side was Elmina, who lived all her adult life in South…

I volunteer at the Orange Coast College Horticulture department. I advise them on their cycad plantings,…

In 1983, Kim and I spent part of our honeymoon in Kailua, her home town for…