Kirti Mathura, Horticulturist, will be the featured speaker at the November 15 meeting of the Sun Lakes Garden Club. Kirti worked at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix in different capacities for over 17 years, after serving six years as a Garden volunteer. Most currently she teaches plant materials for the Landscape Architecture Program at…
Diane Beatty The Sun Lakes Garden Club will have a seed and cutting exchange at their Tuesday, October 18 meeting. Bring seeds and/or cuttings you have to share. Many of the plants in the garden at the Sun Lakes Chapel Center are from shared starts from Garden Club members. We all enjoy seeing plants in…
The Sun Lakes Garden Club recently heard a message on The Future of Water in Arizona from Rebecca Garrett of the Arizona Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. She gave an encouraging talk about using the power of nature to restore river flows and secure Arizona’s water future. She told us about the Salt-Verde Valley Water…
On the beautiful early afternoon of April 1, Nancy Mumpton, our club Treasurer, treated 25 of us members with a tour of her desert garden. She has a huge variety of desert adapted plants; she filled us with details of each plant’s developmental peculiarities, blooming schedule and special needs. She is a fountain of knowledge…
The topic for our April program is “Low Water Gardens Can be More Than Rocks and Cactus.” Cathy Rymer, Water Conservation Coordinator for the City of Chandler, will be our speaker. She is a Master Gardener and has been gardening in the East Valley for many years. She will show us how to have a…
Pauline Lee Want to grow plants that have been used for centuries, from melon (Tohono O’odham yellow, crisp and sweet watermelon) to basket-making (from fibrous devil’s claw pods) and candy (made with amaranth seeds, popped and mixed with honey)? Come and learn in the March meeting of Sun Lakes Garden Club. Speaker Kevin Dahl, an…
Pauline Lee On the morning of December 5 our club members visited the Singh Farm in Phoenix to appreciate how an organic farm makes use of landscape discards to make compost and nitrogen fixating roots of many Mesquite and Palo Verde trees to nourish the vegetable gardens without adding any chemical fertilizers. The great variety…
Donna Haugland, Publicity The next meeting of the Sun Lakes Garden Club (SLGC) will be held at the Chapel Center 9240 N. Sun Lakes Blvd. across from the Sun Lakes Country Club on Monday, June 2 at 9:30 a.m. The June program will be “Container Gardening,” specifically how to plant a salsa garden and all…