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…
Erminja Maganja, Garden Club Publicity Chair The Garden Club Board has selected the yard of Letha and Jay Straub as the recipients of the honorary Yard of the Month award for February 2023. The Straub’s yard is consistently one of the best tended and beautiful in Robson, and the board wanted to recognize their efforts.…
Erminja Maganja, Garden Club Publicity Chair The Garden Club’s November meeting was attended by about 40 members, with several new members and guests. Our guest speaker was Cheryl Huckabee, a Master Gardener and president-elect of the Denton County MGA. She presented “The Promise of Spring,” all about bulbs. Bulbs are perennial plants that store their…
Erminja Maganja, Garden Club Publicity Chair Each October, Garden Club members enjoy a field trip to a local botanical venue. This year, nearly 40 Garden Club members enjoyed a field trip to Clark Gardens, tucked away down a country road between Weatherford and Mineral Wells, Texas. It is the story, vision, and hard work of…
Erminja Maganja, Garden Club Publicity Chair The Garden Club held its first meeting of the 2022-23 club year on Sept. 19. Our group learned a great deal from our dynamic speaker Tammie Manley-Gurley, a Denton County Master Gardener (DCMA), as she discussed what we can do to help butterflies survive. Tammie also had some reference…