Color-magnitude diagram based on Gaia DR3 photometry showing the location of the sample stars using blue star markers as well as red diamonds for the two published planet hosting giants ι Dra and ν Oph. We also plot the location of the remaining 361 giant stars within the Lick sample in purple. For comparison, we overplot the fifth catalog of nearby stars (CNS5) (Golovin et al. 2023) in dark blue and three adjacent evolutionary tracks for 1 M_⊙ (green), 2 M_⊙ (black), and 3 M_⊙ (purple) taken from PARSEC (Bressan et al. 2012).