Starla Kramer The Sun Lakes Garden Club invites visitors to attend our meeting and presentation on March 20 at 9:30 a.m. at the Sun Lakes Chapel Center. The photo tour will be the Chelsea Flower Show and English Gardens. The Chelsea Flower Show is the world’s most prestigious flower show that inspires millions through…
Pauline Lee In our meeting on November 21, Gail Latour, Vermiculturist and Master Gardener, will show us a fun and easy way to compost. She will demonstrate the difference from “hot and cold” composting and how we can “amend” the soil to produce great vegetables and flowers. You will find out how worms can turn…
The Sun Lakes Garden Club will enjoy a photographic journey of very old gardens by Jim Anderson for the September 19 monthly meeting. Visitors are always welcome – “Green Thumbers” or hopeless “Brown Thumbers.” Jim is a retired professor at ASU in engineering. He has traveled the world and enjoys photographing castles and gardens from…
The Sun Lakes Garden Club will be learning about marijuana crops grown here in Arizona at the June 20 meeting. The featured speaker this month is David Grandon from “Harvest of Arizona.” Members and guests will see a slide presentation of the crops and learn about the horticulture of the plants and how botanical research…
Pauline Lee On April 18, our club will present speaker Josh Waltemeyer from Treeland Nurseries to help us prepare for a garden with summer blooms. He will also tell us how to use container plants for effective decoration in our landscape. Bring any questions that you have to become a successful gardener in the desert.…
Pauline Lee At our December meeting, we enjoyed a beautiful, tasty and fun potluck brunch, and our president Diane Beatty presented a donation check of $300 to Neighbors Who Care. Carol Bowers, Volunteer Services Coordinator for NWC, accepted the check. In our January meeting, our speaker Ilene O’Meara, a master gardener and a resident of…
Diane Beatty The Sun Lakes Garden Club learned about growing rare fruits here in the East Valley at their July meeting. Doug Jones, President of the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers Association, shared some of the fruits he grows with us, and has invited members to visit his garden when the weather cools a bit. His…
Members of our club visited Mesa Community College on April 25 to learn about their sustainable gardening and Urban Horticulture Program from program director Peter Conden. The temporary greenhouse kept the temperature and humidity at optimal conditions for seeds to germinate and plants to grow in containers, in hydroponics and in aquaponics setups. We also…
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…
Pauline Lee In the two past months, the Sun Lakes Garden Club has focused attention at our meetings to safety in our garden and what to do in case wild animals visit our neighborhood. In October, four firemen from Sun Lakes Fire Department told us about rescuing our residents in their garden from heat exhaustion,…