SV Garden Club Officers

	Sierra Vista Area Gardeners Club
Back to Home Page	2010-2011 Officers President: Janie Fix Many years ago in our "Mother Earth" days in Southern California, we raised a variety of vegetables - potatoes in a trash can, sweet pumpkins for pies, corn, zuchini, tomatoes. That's when we also raised chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigs, a steer and horses. I've been here in my own home for a year. I'm trying to salvage the ornamental plants from the weeds - and sometimes I'm not sure exactly which are weeds. However at this point I could supply the entire world with tumbleweed!!! Oh, yes, horses are still part of my life. Vice-President:Eugenie Juve My mother was a gardener, mostly flowers, but some vegetables, and I enjoyed helping her as a child. We had a garden at our first home in Citrus Heights, CA, more my husband’s work than mine; we raised some atomic jalapenos; so hot no one could eat them!! Didn’t do much gardening in Scottsdale, AZ just native trees and shrubs in the landscaping. Then on to Littleton, CO where I had mostly flowers, but did raise some catnip, which disappeared slowly and mysteriously until one day I found a neighbor’s cat draped over the fence, stoned. Mystery solved. Then on to Texas, where we had a herb garden and both my husband and I enjoyed tending the yard. While there I got my Texas Master Gardeners certification, but I think all I learned from that is that I know so little about gardening!! Now to Sierra Vista, where if we ever get the hardscaping done in our yard, and decorative plantings, we’ll take a shot at a vegetable garden here. Over all, I’ve always felt that working with plants, etc. is most therapeutic, and much cheaper than a psychiatrist!!! Secretary: Diane Levine As an ex-city girl from the Northeast, I first got interested in gardening when I arrived in Sierra Vista. Consequently, I had no prior garden experiences that I wanted to reproduce here. I first started gardening in the desert! Joining both the Garden Club and the Master Gardeners in the mid-90’s and hiking in the Huachucas, I became most interested in wildflowers with my favorite being the cardinal flower (brilliant red flower blooming in canyon creeks in August). The gardening area that I am most interested in is adding to the flowering shrubs in our yard that attract birds and butterflies. My husband Bob and I enjoy watching deer come close to our bird-feeding station in our backyard as well as watching the bunnies race around. In our one fenced-in area I plan to plant rose bushes next January. We’re in the middle of a major outdoor home improvement to our front yard – new driveway, low wall marking driveway and property boundary. Once hardscape is done, I get to have the fun of planning and then planting new flowering shrubs for our front yard. Emphasis will be on gold and purple flowering shrubs. Treasurer: Donna Blackburn Donna is a certified Master Gardener graduating in 2007, and an expert on roses. Donna and her husband Cliff (also a certified Master Gardener) have been growing roses in the high desert since 1979. There are currently over 250 rose plants in their yard in Sierra Vista, including Grand Floras, Hybrid Teas, Florabunda, Miniature, Micro Miniature, Climbing, and Tree roses. Donna is also growing dwarf Japanese maples in containers, Bougainvilla, and believe it or not, in this dry, high desert, Hostas! A lover of humming birds, Donna always has something growing in her yard to attract the hummers: Agastache, Penstemon, and Salvia. Donna and Cliff, have a yard that is a work in progress, with ever changing landscapes matching ever changing attitudes. “There is always room for one more rose plant.” Member-at-Large: Dorothy Adams

Many years ago in our "Mother Earth" days in Southern California, we raised a variety of vegetables - potatoes in a trash can, sweet pumpkins for pies, corn, zuchini, tomatoes. That's when we also raised chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigs, a steer and horses. I've been here in my own home for a year. I'm trying to salvage the ornamental plants from the weeds - and sometimes I'm not sure exactly which are weeds. However at this point I could supply the entire world with tumbleweed!!! Oh, yes, horses are still part of my life.

My mother was a gardener, mostly flowers, but some vegetables, and I enjoyed helping her as a child. We had a garden at our first home in Citrus Heights, CA, more my husband’s work than mine; we raised some atomic jalapenos; so hot no one could eat them!! Didn’t do much gardening in Scottsdale, AZ just native trees and shrubs in the landscaping. Then on to Littleton, CO where I had mostly flowers, but did raise some catnip, which disappeared slowly and mysteriously until one day I found a neighbor’s cat draped over the fence, stoned. Mystery solved. Then on to Texas, where we had a herb garden and both my husband and I enjoyed tending the yard.

While there I got my Texas Master Gardeners certification, but I think all I learned from that is that I know so little about gardening!! Now to Sierra Vista, where if we ever get the hardscaping done in our yard, and decorative plantings, we’ll take a shot at a vegetable garden here. Over all, I’ve always felt that working with plants, etc. is most therapeutic, and much cheaper than a psychiatrist!!!

As an ex-city girl from the Northeast, I first got interested in gardening when I arrived in Sierra Vista. Consequently, I had no prior garden experiences that I wanted to reproduce here. I first started gardening in the desert! Joining both the Garden Club and the Master Gardeners in the mid-90’s and hiking in the Huachucas, I became most interested in wildflowers with my favorite being the cardinal flower (brilliant red flower blooming in canyon creeks in August). The gardening area that I am most interested in is adding to the flowering shrubs in our yard that attract birds and butterflies. My husband Bob and I enjoy watching deer come close to our bird-feeding station in our backyard as well as watching the bunnies race around. In our one fenced-in area I plan to plant rose bushes next January. We’re in the middle of a major outdoor home improvement to our front yard – new driveway, low wall marking driveway and property boundary. Once hardscape is done, I get to have the fun of planning and then planting new flowering shrubs for our front yard. Emphasis will be on gold and purple flowering shrubs.

Donna is a certified Master Gardener graduating in 2007, and an expert on roses. Donna and her husband Cliff (also a certified Master Gardener) have been growing roses in the high desert since 1979. There are currently over 250 rose plants in their yard in Sierra Vista, including Grand Floras, Hybrid Teas, Florabunda, Miniature, Micro Miniature, Climbing, and Tree roses. Donna is also growing dwarf Japanese maples in containers, Bougainvilla, and believe it or not, in this dry, high desert, Hostas! A lover of humming birds, Donna always has something growing in her yard to attract the hummers: Agastache, Penstemon, and Salvia. Donna and Cliff, have a yard that is a work in progress, with ever changing landscapes matching ever changing attitudes. “There is always room for one more rose plant.”