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Sun Lakes Garden Club

The audience at the Garden Club meeting listening to the speaker.

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…

Weeders Garden Club meetings resume September 10

Cactus Pavilion at Wallace Gardens, Scottsdale

Debbie Hensley Please come and join our newly elected officers for 2015-2017 at our first Weeders Garden Club meeting on September 10. Our new officers are President Debbie Dunham, Vice-President Lollie Sharpe, Corresponding Secretary Gloria Zarifis, Treasurer Janice Giachino and Recording Secretary Jane Watkins. We have had the summer off from meetings to garden, find…

Sun Lakes Garden Club

Pictured left to right are Vicki McClellan, Elsa Armstrong and Irene Arrigo.

Pauline Lee, Publicity On Tuesday, September 15, the Sun Lakes Garden Club will meet at the Chapel Center in Sun Lakes Country Club at 9:30 a.m. for social time and business meeting. A member of Sun Lakes Fire Department will talk about Elderly Gardening and Safety in the Garden at 10:00 a.m. If you want…

Weeders Garden Club installs new board

Gloria Zarifis, Corresponding Secretary, Janice Giachino, Treasurer, Lollie Sharpe, Vice-President, Debbie Dunham, President and Jane Watkins, Recording Secretary

Weeders Garden Club, based in Sun Lakes, celebrated its 60th birthday with a Garden Tea Party theme at Roberta Sisk Park, Palo Verde Country Club on May 14 and everyone had such a grand time sharing food and beverage and chat! Almost everyone got into the swing of the theme and put on a beautifully…

Garden Club activities

Garden Club Presidents (left to right) Debby McDonald, Margorie Wright, Eleanor Davis, Judy Yaryan and Diane Beatty

Pauline Lee The members of Sun Lakes Garden Club welcomed four past presidents to join their meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 21. President Debby McDonald led the celebration of the 16th anniversary of the club with a brunch at the Chapel Center in Sun Lakes Country Club. In the next regular meeting at…

Conservation Corner – November 2014

Purslane is one of the most nutritious greens on the planet.

Pauline Lee Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) should remind you of a weed we commonly see in the cracks on streets and sidewalks. This plant grows easily in poor soil. Its stem is round and smooth and trails the ground like a small vine. Young plants’ green stems turn reddish upon maturity. Their small, egg-shaped to oblong…