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BY SUE ERWIN Sitting in his summer home near Asheville, North Carolina, Boca Grande seasonal resident Edd Dean wrote a book called “The Secret Fortune.” The fictional book is about Boca Grande and a powerful secret going back 500 years, telling a story that leads to the present time.The book is inspired by decades of […]
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SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB Do you know what a “potager” is? It is the French word for kitchen garden and literally means “for the soup pot.” So the potager is a thing, a kitchen garden, but it is more than that. It is a philosophy of living connected to the garden, or […]
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To the Editor: The Island School would like to thank Hazeltine Nurseries and Leonardo Garcia for helping us prep our new children’s gardening area. We hope to learn a lot from this new endeavor! Karen KelleyThe Island School
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SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB – The holidays are off to a “Grande” start at the Boca Grande Garden Club! On Wednesday, at its annual luncheon, the Club’s designers showed we can celebrate with everything from red roses and berries, to orange or blue coral with white orchids, to red bromeliads and candy […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE Sometimes, change is good. Ronica Davis talked about change as she puttered around the new location for her business, Native Gardens, on East Railroad Avenue where she is scheduled to open in late September. In the last 15 years she has gone from waitressing to owning her own business, and to make […]
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Diane Johnson and Melanie Sullivan, Co-Chairs of the Boca Grande Garden Club Community Services Committee and committee members Gina McFadden and Priscilla Masselink, spearheaded the drive to install those” Caribbean blue” benches surrounded by palms and bamboo on both sides of the Post Office building. Marc Spurgeon of Boca Grande Realty supplied three benches and five […]
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SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB Beautiful Boca Grande sunshine and exceptionally gorgeous gardens made last Wednesday’s Annual Garden Tour of the Boca Grande Garden Club a very special treat for the Club’s members. Co-chairs Carol Forrester and Peggy Saewert arranged a day showcasing one breathtaking vista after another. This year’s tour focused on […]
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SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB The Boca Grande Garden Club teamed up with the Boca Grande Art Alliance last weekend to present an Art in Bloom Spring Show sponsored by Italiano Insurance. Members of both organizations shared their incredible artistic talents, proving just how lucky we are to have these gifted people in […]
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SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB The Boca Grande Garden Club bused down to the Naples Botanical Garden last week to view “Gardens with Latitude,” a showcase of gardens encircling the globe between the 26th latitudes north to south where some of the most diverse plant communities exist. Founded in 1993 by eight residents […]
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Robert Vanden Bosch of Chicago, IL and Boca Grande passed away on March 22, 2026 at Brighton Gardens Assisted Living in Chevy Chase MD. Robert grew up in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago, where he enjoyed an old-fashioned childhood of the sort we don’t see anymore. When not playing stickball in the streets with the […]