Nancy Finley, Garden Club Publicity Chair The next Garden Club meeting will be on Monday, Jan. 15, at 10:30 a.m. in the Lonestar Room at the Robson Ranch clubhouse. Our speaker will be Lee Ann Yates, Master Gardener with Denton County Master Gardeners. She will present a program on “Indoor Plant Care.” Lee Ann welcomes…
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Clubs & Classes, December 2023
Garden Club: Yard of the Month
Clubs & Classes, November 2023
Garden Club November Meeting
Nancy Finley, Publicity Chair, Garden Club The November Garden Club meeting will be on Monday, Nov. 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Lonestar Room at the Robson Ranch clubhouse. Our speaker will be Lee Ann Yates, Master Gardener with Denton County Master Gardeners. She will present a program on “Fall Gardening,” including pansy planting and…
Clubs & Classes, October 2023
October Garden Club Tour
Nancy Finley, Garden Club Publicity Chair In lieu of a meeting, the Garden Club members are carpooling to Global Spheres Gardens. We will meet up at the clubhouse parking lot on Monday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m., and carpool to Denton for a 10:30 a.m. guided tour of the Global Spheres/Israel Prayer Garden, located at…
Features, August 2023
Yard of the Month
Clubs & Classes, June 2023
Garden Club—Season Finale!

Erminja Maganja, Garden Club Publicity Chair After a couple days of heavy rain, a beautiful spring day awaited us on May 15 as over 45 Garden Club members assembled to close out our club year with the popular RR garden tour. On tour were four very different, lovely gardens. Our hosts were available to answer…
Generals, May 2023
Yard of the Month

Erminja Maganja, Garden Club Publicity Chair Letha Straub, who leads the Garden Club’s Yard of the Month project, has selected the yard of Tim and Amy Bowman as deserving of this honorary award. While Tim hails from Oklahoma and Amy from Kansas, they consider themselves Texans at heart, having lived here “as long as they…
Clubs & Classes, May 2023
Garden Club Trip to Ponder
Erminja Maganja, Publicity Chair Twice yearly, Garden Club members leave the Ranch to enjoy a field trip to local gardens or garden-related establishments. For our April meeting, we visited a unique flower farm in Ponder called Aunt Sue’s Barn. We were greeted by owner Sue Newhouse who purchased the 10-acre property in the mid-1990s with…
Clubs & Classes, April 2023
Garden Club—Let’s Get Growing!

Erminja Maganja, Publicity Chair Garden Club members assembled on March 20 for the always-popular annual Plant Exchange. President Lori Slocum opened the meeting with club business, announcing that two board seats will be vacated this year: vice president and publicity. She asked members to consider serving on the board. Those interested, please contact any board…
Clubs & Classes, March 2023
Garden Club Discusses North Texas Gardening

Erminja Maganja, Publicity Chair For its February meeting, the Garden Club hosted Ed Tavender, nursery manager at the family-owned Fossil Creek Tree Farm & Nursery in Fort Worth, to discuss gardening in North Texas. Ed has worked with owners Terra and Josh Richards since they opened the business in 2011. Ed’s style was friendly and…