This Oregon Coast garden club is celebrating its 75th anniversary

At 83, retired teacher Jean Turner still loves to get down and dirty in the garden. Her yard is an oasis of apple blossoms, birds and daffodils.

Turner said she inherited her green thumb from her grandmother, who helped start the Seal Rock Garden Club on the Oregon Coast back in 1948.

“The ladies were real different then,” Turner said. “They wore gloves. They wore long, usually floral kinds of dresses. Scarves. Oh and a hat. It’s different than now. We show up in Levi’s.”

This spring, as people across the Pacific Northwest plant their perennials, members of the Seal Rock Garden Club are also celebrating their 75th anniversary. That’s a long time for a little gardening club.