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…
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Clubs & Classes, October 2015
Weeder’s Garden Club meets 2nd Thursday each month
Debbie Hensley The Weeders’ Garden Club had a very successful meeting to start our season on September 10, 2015. Several visitors came, had a good time and were very happy to attend their first club meeting. We hope they will become new members! Our succulent presentation was done by member Pattie Langton and it was…
Clubs & Classes, September 2015
Weeders Garden Club meetings resume September 10
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…
Clubs & Classes, September 2015
Sun Lakes Garden Club
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…
Clubs & Classes, August 2015
Weeders Garden Club installs new board
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…
Features, August 2015
Weedless landscaping with 15 minutes of work per month
George Abernathy, Sun Lakes resident Not only do my neighbors and I enjoy my weedless yard, my plants absolutely love it. I accomplish this by spending an average of 15 minutes of non-physical labor per month, year round and its real simple! I know a lot of people have huge gardens that need some serious…
Clubs & Classes, June 2015
Garden Club activities
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…
Clubs & Classes, December 2014
Sun Lakes Garden Club moves its meeting day in 2015
Donna Haugland, Publicity Beginning in January the Sun Lakes Garden Club will meet on the third Tuesday of the month. The January meeting will be on January 20. 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…
Features, November 2014
Conservation Corner – November 2014
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…