Defranco garden named March 2024 Selection of the Month

Palm Coast Observer
Neighbors

Laura Defranco of Fordney Place, Palm Coast has been recognized as March 2024 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.

Defranco found her interest in gardening as a young girl following her Italian grandparents around the garden in Connecticut. Defranco moved to Palm Coast in 2013. Defranco has an eye for color and her garden beds are a way of expressing herself artistically.

She has over 30 different varieties of plants, bushes, and trees, with a century plant as focal point in her front bed. Her favorites are bromeliads, kalanchoes, and especially the coral-colored geraniums that she was given by a former member of the Garden Club, Marian Handshur.

Handshur passed away in 2018, but her memory and flowers live on in Defranco's yard and flower beds, especially these very hardy geraniums, and they seem to bloom almost year-round. Handshur had also given her a crinum lily and cardboard palm.

This yard represents a true passion and love for gardening in Florida.

The Garden Club meets monthly on the second Monday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the 51 Club, 51 Old Kings Road, Palm Coast, Sept. through May. The plant sale is open to the public 11:30-1:00 p.m.