Pauline Lee On January 19, Ron Parker will present an entertaining and educational talk about Agaves at the monthly meeting of Sun Lakes Garden Club. Ron fell in love with agaves after he moved to Fountain Hills with awe-inspiring views of Four Peaks and the McDowell Mountains. During that first year, he dreamed big and…
Pauline Lee Beverly Tall will present a very informative program about orchids at the Sun Lakes Garden Club meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 17. She is an American Orchid Society judge who travels all over the world to judge international orchid shows, as well as those in the U.S. Ms Tall will speak…
Pauline Lee On August 15, the Sun Lakes Garden Club will present Jo Setliff, a Maricopa County Master Gardener. She will cover the basics of vegetable gardening in the low desert to prepare us for planting in the fall. She will focus on the Master Gardener resources available for everyone, provided by the planting calendar…
Pauline Lee Our July 18 meeting will feature Jackie Rich, a Phoenix native and a Master Gardener. In 2010, Jackie’s yard was included in the Real Gardens for Real People Tour, organized by the University of Arizona Maricopa County Cooperative Extension Service Master Gardeners. At that time, she was interviewed by a reporter with Arizona…
Pauline Lee During April, our club had two extra activities besides our usual monthly meeting. On April 8, our club members enjoyed a morning tour to five Sun Lakes gardens, each being different in size, utility and ambience. Each garden was beautifully developed by the homeowner whose artistry and creativity were amazingly different from one…
Pauline Lee Our March 17 meeting will feature Ken Roberts, a member of Phoenix Bonsai Society. Ken and his wife have a collection of approximately 50 trees of various size, from the smallest, approximately four inches tall, to the largest, approximately three feet tall. The trees vary greatly in age also. The oldest, collected in…
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…