Calendar

Sierra Vista Area Gardeners Club

Upcoming events

Following are the events happening at the Sierra Vista Gardeners Club.

August 2008

Thursday, August 14: Board Meeting, 10am at the Sierra Vista Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St. The meeting will be held in one of the small meeting rooms (located past the checkout desk, on the left wall, as you enter). All members are welcome!

Thursday, August 21: Gardeners Club Meeting, 1pm in the Auditorium at the Oscar Yrun Community Center, 3020 E. Tacoma St. Speaker: Angel Rutherford, Habitat Gardening: Build it and They will come.

September 2008

Thursday, September 11: Board Meeting, 10am at the Sierra Vista Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St. The meeting will be held in one of the small meeting rooms (located past the checkout desk, on the left wall, as you enter). All members are welcome!

Thursday, September 18: Gardeners Club Meeting, 1pm in the Auditorium at the Oscar Yrun Community Center, 3020 E. Tacoma St. Speaker: to be determined.

October 2008

Thursday, October 9: Board Meeting, 10am at the Sierra Vista Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St. The meeting will be held in one of the small meeting rooms (located past the checkout desk, on the left wall, as you enter). All members are welcome!

Thursday, October 16: Gardeners Club Meeting, 1pm in the Auditorium at the Oscar Yrun Community Center, 3020 E. Tacoma St. Speaker: to be determined.

November 2008

Thursday, November 13: Board Meeting, 10am at the Sierra Vista Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St. The meeting will be held in one of the small meeting rooms (located past the checkout desk, on the left wall, as you enter). All members are welcome!

Thursday, November 20: Gardeners Club Meeting, 1pm in the Auditorium at the Oscar Yrun Community Center, 3020 E. Tacoma St. Speaker: to be determined.

Upcoming Garden-related Events in Southeastern Arizona

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Hours: March - September: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm (no entry after 4:15 pm). There's also 40,000 plants (not counting the grasses in our grassland exhibit), representing 1300 species (including varieties) on the grounds of the museum. Free Butterfly Walks from 10-11am every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in August, September & October. Meet at the front patio.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: August 21, Prickly Pear Harvest class 7am-1pm. Class will harvest the fruit, make jelly, syrup and frozen sorbet, and find out about how this food is important to many desert animals and peoples.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: September 27 & 28, Butterfly Festival and Plant Sale. There will be butterfly walks, a plant sale, puppet show, children's activities and gardening classes happening throughout the day.

Tucson Botanical Gardens: Digs Prehistoric Gardens: Imagine our planet in a pre-historic era where continents were filled with bizarre plants and gianormous creatures. Step into that ancient and alien world this summer. Take a self-guided tour through the Gardens and come face-to-face with a life-sized flesh eating dinosaur or see a giant dragonfly flying overhead. Stand next to a giant T-Rex footprint or touch a Dinosaur Egg. Discover bizarre carnivorous and ancient plants that are truly living fossils, changing little over time. Find out what the dinosaurs ate and which plants survived and thrive in present times. Dig in a fossil quarry or go on a scavenger hunt and take a fascinating walk through history. Included with Gardens Admission. Open Daily 8:30am-4:30pm. Closed July 4th. Special extended hours during Twilight Thursdays, June 5-August 28, open Thursdays til 9pm.

Tucson Botanical Gardens presents: Twilight Thursdays, Open every Thursday until 9pm June 5th through August 28th. Cool evening events all summer long – International nights with live music and dancing, outdoor movie, flashlight tours, pajama night, treasure hunts and more.

Tucson Botanical Gardens: Saturday, October 4, Plant Sale.

Tohono Chul Park: Fall plant Sale: October 9-Member Only Preview; October 11& 12 public sale.

Link to Various Tucson Garden Clubs: http://www.tucsongardener.com/Miscellaneous/Gardenclubs.htm