Nancy Finley, Garden Club Publicity Chair Yard of the Month: December Yard of the Month is in the Diamond Woods section at 9701 Salford Way, the home of Candace J. Anderson. She built her home in 2020 after years in Round Rock, Texas. Time spent in Santa Fe, N.M., influences her home décor and the…
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…
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…
Letha Straub, Chair, Yard of the Month The Garden Club Board has selected the yard of Doris and Joe Hazewski as the recipients of the honorary Yard of the Month award. Doris and Joe stated, “Our journey began in early 2020 with our decision to relocate from our home in Missouri City, Texas, to a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Erminja Maganja, Publicity Chair The Garden Club’s first meeting of 2023 was held on Jan. 16. Club members and guests learned a great deal from our guest speaker, Ann Athey, with the Denton County Master Gardener Association, presenting “Yes! You Can Grow African Violets!” After raising a family and retiring from her nursing career, Ann…