HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – The Hidden Valley Lake Garden Club is accepting applications from qualified Middletown or Lower Lake High School seniors for its second annual scholarship.

The purpose of the $750 scholarship is to assist the student who plans to attend either a community college or a four-year college majoring in one of the following certificate or degree programs: horticulture, landscape, botany, viticulture, plant science, crop or soil science, forestry, floristry, natural resource management, environmental science or agricultural production.

In order to apply, students must plan to attend a community or four-year college in the 2013-14 school year and to be involved in one of the above certificate or degree programs; must have a 2.5 cumulative grade point average; must submit the application by the March 29 deadline; and must submit transcripts, three letters of recommendation and a recent photograph.

Application requirements and materials are available from counselors of scholarship coordinators a Middletown and Lower Lake high schools.

Further information can be obtained from scholarship chair Marsha Willard at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The selection process includes a paper screening and a possible interview for finalists.

The committee will look at the applicant’s high school classes, activities and community service related to their planned field of study.