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…
On February 25, Weeders Garden Club Members enjoyed a docent-led tour of Taliesin West, the American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home, studio and architectural laboratory from 1937 until his death in 1959; it is located in Scottsdale. Taliesin West, along with Taliesin in Wisconsin, was Wright’s architectural laboratory. Here he tested design innovations, structural…
Arizona Federation of Garden Clubs presents “Kaleidoscope of Garden Colors” at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel South Mountain, 10831 South 51st Street, Phoenix, Arizona. The event will be held on Friday, April 22 from 10:30a.m.-3:00 p.m. The event will include: Demonstration workshops featuring floral and Ikebana design A luncheon with Chico’s Fashion Show There will…
Debbie Hensley Fifty members of the Weeders Garden Club took a bus trip to the Lawrence Dunham vineyards Wine Gallery in Scottsdale on January 26. Our tour package included five tastes of the Dunham wines and we were treated to a very delicious assortment of snacks and special cookies all made by our President, Debbie…
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…
The speaker for our February meeting will be Steve Sheard, a Master Rosarian of the American Rose Society. He is a member of the Mesa/East Valley Rose Society and is familiar with growing roses in our area. He will give a 45 minute presentation and allow time afterward for questions and answers. Our club members…
Debbie Hensley The Weeders Garden Club held their holiday luncheon for the second time at Old Spaghetti Factory located at the Fashion Mall in Chandler. We also brought unwrapped gifts, monetary donations and gift cards to be given to My Sister’s Place, one of our club supported charities. Everyone had a great time, a winning…
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…
On November 20 members of the Weeders Garden Club met at the Archstone Care Center in Chandler to work on one of the yearly club’s community support projects. Two times a year, right before Thanksgiving and again before Easter, Weeders members meet with residents of the Archstone Care Center to work on flower arrangements for…
Rabbits eating your plants? Coyotes strolling your favorite walking paths? Foxes sleeping in your back yard? Javelinas? Black bears? Come to hear about Sun Lakes wildlife at the Sun Lakes Garden Club meeting held at 9:30 a.m. on November 17 at Chapel House in Sun Lakes. The speaker will be Darren Julian, well-known wildlife biologist…