How to Grow Cacti

Master Gardener, Vegas Voice columnist, and Chair of our House Call Committee—Howard Galin—will entertain us on March 9 with a “penetrating” talk titled “I’m Stuck on Cactus, and Cactus Is Stuck on Me.” Come listen and learn about when and how to plant, water, and fertilize these drought-tolerant plants with beautiful but short-lived flowers. On the other hand, their wicked spines reveal their passive-aggressive alter ego and warn us away like Clint Eastwood’s character Dirty Harry: “Go ahead. Make my day.”

In April, David Bilik of Twilight Designs will illustrate the DOs and DON’Ts of landscape lighting so that we can relax and entertain in our gardens at nighttime as well the daylight hours. May brings us the highly anticipated, annual gardens tour, followed by our annual luncheon in June and field trip in October. The lecture series in the fall includes useful presentations on tree selection and care, Nevada’s native plants for the garden, and, by popular demand, an updated reprise of a comprehensive talk on our hummingbirds and their garden plants in Nevada.

Don’t miss out on all these events. Join the club or renew today to take advantage of the members-only benefits, such as our free house calls to answer gardening questions and address plant problems in your yard. All those who join or renew for 2024 can also pick up a FREE tote bag with the Club’s eye-catching new logo at any meeting; they cannot be mailed. Be the first among your friends to own one and make them critically envious.

We meet in the Penn/Morris/Nelson Rooms of the Independence Center from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the second Monday of each month except July and August. Free coffee, tea, and cookies are available from 9:00 a.m. Sun City residents are welcome to attend two meetings/year without joining. Dues for 2024 are $15; checks may be made payable exactly to: Sun City Anthem Community Association, Inc. with “Garden Club’ on the memo line. Enrollment forms are also available at the Anthem Center kiosk and on our website (https://garden.scaclub.org) and can be placed in the Garden Club mailbox located outside Anthem's Fitness Center along with your check payable as above. Feel free to email any questions about the Club to its president, Dr. Alec Pridgeon (apridg1@gmail.com).