Riverton WY Garden Club

09/18/2026

Riverton Garden Club will have a plant sale Saturday 9-11 at City Hall farmers market. We will have plants,( perrinnials) wood chip mulch, planting pots & containers.

09/15/2026

Shout out to the Honey Fly Company in Riverton for hosting the September Garden Club Sip and Paint meeting!
It was lots of fun.

08/17/2026

Have you checked out our website lately? New events and other items are appearing!

Join us to cultivate friendships and beautiful gardens in Central Wyoming.

08/08/2026

Riverton Garden Club awarded August Yard of the Month to Michael & Kenna Sweglar at 547 Broadacres. They have so much color to see as you drive by. They also get a gift certificate from Sweetwater Garden Center. Have a beautiful fall season!

07/31/2026

Some of the Fair entries !

07/30/2026

And the winners are.....Floriculture and Horticulture Fair winners.

07/14/2026

(Riverton, WY) – Each summer, the Riverton Garden Club chooses a Yard of the Month for June, July, and August. For the month of July this year, the Club has awarded the Yard of the Month prize to Mary & Keven Noe at 1213 E Jackson. “Mary & Keven Noe have great curb appeal in their yard,” […]

07/14/2026

With Riverton Chamber & Visitors Center – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

07/12/2026

If your zucchini plant is covered in flowers but producing almost no fruit, or you're watching small zucchinis turn yellow and drop off before they develop, the problem almost certainly isn't the plant. It's pollination, and once you understand how zucchini flowering actually works, the fix becomes obvious.

Zucchini produces two completely separate types of flowers on the same plant, and they have distinct jobs. Male flowers appear on slim, straight stems and exist solely to produce pollen. Female flowers are easy to identify because they have a tiny, unmistakable miniature zucchini at their base, which is the unfertilized o***y waiting to develop into fruit. If pollen never reaches that female flower, that little proto-zucchini yellows and drops off within a day or two. It's not a sign of a sick plant. It's just an unfertilized flower doing what unfertilized flowers do.

Under normal garden conditions, bees handle this transfer automatically. A bee visits a male flower, picks up pollen, then visits a female flower and deposits it. Done. But several things can interrupt this process: cool or rainy weather that keeps bees inactive, a garden with too few pollinators, early morning flowers that close before bees become active, or a plant that opens male and female flowers on different days.

Hand pollination solves every one of those problems in about fifteen seconds flat.

The technique is genuinely simple. Find an open male flower and either pick it entirely or use a small paintbrush to collect pollen from the anther, which is the pollen-bearing structure in the center of the flower. Then find an open female flower and swirl or brush that pollen directly onto the stigma, which is the sticky central structure inside the female flower. One or two passes is sufficient. That's the entire process.

Timing matters significantly here. Zucchini flowers open in the cool morning hours and close by midday or early afternoon. If you're checking your plant at 2pm, you may find that both flowers have already closed for the day. Getting out to the garden in the morning, ideally before 9am, gives you the best window for both natural and hand pollination to succeed.

After successful pollination, the transformation is rapid. That miniature fruit at the base of the female flower begins swelling noticeably within days, and a fully developed zucchini can go from thumbnail-sized to harvest-ready in less than a week under good growing conditions.

If you've been puzzled by flowers dropping and little to no fruit setting, spend one morning checking for open male and female flowers at the same time and do the transfer yourself. The results are usually immediate and satisfying enough that you'll wonder why you didn't start doing it years ago.

07/12/2026

More about the Hunger Initiative...

CHEYENNE — Friday afternoon, the Governor’s Residence hosted a celebration of the Wyoming Hunger Initiative, commemorating the nonprofit organization’s work in conjunction with Gov. Mark Gordon’s two terms in office.