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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, September 1 at 9:30 a.m. Because this is Labor Day and attendance may be low, those who are present will have…
According to a paper published in Science in November 2013, the dry regions of the world will become drier, whereas the wet areas will become wetter. This prediction is supported by Grace satellites that have measured declining groundwater reserves worldwide between 2003 and 2012 because of long term droughts. Arizona has been in a drought pattern…
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…