SV Garden Club Officers

	Sierra Vista Area Gardeners Club
Back to Home Page	2008-2009 Officers President: Weegie Correia Vice-President: Linda Gleason Linda got started in gardening when she convinced her parents to let her take care of a small strip of dirt next to a window well on the north side of their house in Wisconsin. She planted nastursiums and added some color to that side of the house. Before you knew it. She inherited the entire side of the house. A gardening neighbor down the block took her under her wing and showed her how to raise flowers. She was given some perennial daisies that grow to this day in her mother's garden. Linda started vegetable gardening in her 20s and laments the good black Wisconsin soil hat she left behind when she moved to Mesa AZ in 1984. She gradually conquered low desert gardening and moved to Hereford in 2004. Wanting to learn about high desert gardening, she became a certified Master Gardener. She also joined the Gardeners Club. She now grows vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and herbs on part of her 8 acres of land in Hereford. Secretary: Meg Rickard Treasurers: Bob & Timmie Palm Bob and Timmie are more than a team on our Board. They are also a team in their garden and on their vast acreage. They own 10 acres on the Babocomari River in southeastern Arizona and love their views and their wildlife. If Timmie is the artist, Bob is the caregiver. He's often seen building berms and swales to help with drainage or racking up the leaves from the enormous trees around their home. Bob has an amazing sense of color and balance, which complements his wife's artistic love of color, so their home is always surrounded with a changing color palatte. Bob also recently researched a bought a greenhouse and assembled it with his wife and son. He said it was quite a project. However, it will allow him and Timmie to save some of their potted plants for spring as well as get a head start on next season's flowers. Historian:Angel Rutherford Angel is a nature lover and photographer. She has taken photos all over the world, but one of her favorite places is in her own yard. She keeps her camera on a counter near her back door, so it's handy if she sees an interesting subject. She has had exhibits of her photos in several places around Cochise county and won several awards. She has a front and back yard that is full of native plants and ponds. She also runs a business, called Angel Frogs from her side yard. She grows and sells plants for ponds and educates clients on how to create and plant their own ponds. Angel is a long time Master Gardener and is often sought out by other garden club members for her knowledge and advise. We are also treated to various columns telling us about native plants that grow in her yard in a monthly column in our local paper. Angel's yards are full of plants that are colorful and attract wildlife. She's always got numerous quail and other birds using her yard as a haven in the city. Her plants always produce volunteers and Angel is one of the chief contributers to our twice a year club plant sales.

Sierra Vista Area Gardeners Club

2008-2009 Officers

President: Weegie Correia

Vice-President: Linda Gleason

Linda got started in gardening when she convinced her parents to let her take care of a small strip of dirt next to a window well on the north side of their house in Wisconsin. She planted nastursiums and added some color to that side of the house. Before you knew it. She inherited the entire side of the house. A gardening neighbor down the block took her under her wing and showed her how to raise flowers. She was given some perennial daisies that grow to this day in her mother's garden. Linda started vegetable gardening in her 20s and laments the good black Wisconsin soil hat she left behind when she moved to Mesa AZ in 1984. She gradually conquered low desert gardening and moved to Hereford in 2004. Wanting to learn about high desert gardening, she became a certified Master Gardener. She also joined the Gardeners Club. She now grows vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and herbs on part of her 8 acres of land in Hereford.

Secretary: Meg Rickard

Treasurers: Bob & Timmie Palm

Bob and Timmie are more than a team on our Board. They are also a team in their garden and on their vast acreage. They own 10 acres on the Babocomari River in southeastern Arizona and love their views and their wildlife. If Timmie is the artist, Bob is the caregiver. He's often seen building berms and swales to help with drainage or racking up the leaves from the enormous trees around their home. Bob has an amazing sense of color and balance, which complements his wife's artistic love of color, so their home is always surrounded with a changing color palatte. Bob also recently researched a bought a greenhouse and assembled it with his wife and son. He said it was quite a project. However, it will allow him and Timmie to save some of their potted plants for spring as well as get a head start on next season's flowers.

Historian:Angel Rutherford

Angel is a nature lover and photographer. She has taken photos all over the world, but one of her favorite places is in her own yard. She keeps her camera on a counter near her back door, so it's handy if she sees an interesting subject. She has had exhibits of her photos in several places around Cochise county and won several awards. She has a front and back yard that is full of native plants and ponds. She also runs a business, called Angel Frogs from her side yard. She grows and sells plants for ponds and educates clients on how to create and plant their own ponds. Angel is a long time Master Gardener and is often sought out by other garden club members for her knowledge and advise. We are also treated to various columns telling us about native plants that grow in her yard in a monthly column in our local paper. Angel's yards are full of plants that are colorful and attract wildlife. She's always got numerous quail and other birds using her yard as a haven in the city. Her plants always produce volunteers and Angel is one of the chief contributers to our twice a year club plant sales.