Dec 1, 2017 THE REAL DIRT ON:Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist Landscape Architect By Carol Buckley. The story of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx pivots on a paradox of colonialism. Born in 1909 in São Paulo, and ...
Dec 1, 2017 MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Jardin Exotique d'Èze By Jim Bishop. I first became aware of the Jardin Exotique from the 1990s TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, hosted by Robin Leac...
Dec 1, 2017 SHARING SECRETS: Minding the Garden in November Edited by Dayle Cheever* and Lisa Marun. The question for this month was: Pat Welsh identifies November as the first month of the rainy s...
Dec 1, 2017 GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? By Linda Jones. When Spanish galleons sailed up the coast in the 1700s, the explorers called Alta California “la tierra del fuego,” not b...
Dec 1, 2017 TREES, PLEASE: Does Money Really Grow on Trees? By Robin Rivet. t was there, and then it was gone—my favorite tree in all of San Diego. I went into shock. Then anger. Although most tree...
Dec 1, 2017 BOOK REVIEW: Founding Gardeners Reviewed by Evelyn Torre-Bueno. Andrea Wulf's Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American N...
Dec 1, 2017 BUGS AND BUGABOOS: The Scent of Christmas Past By Vincent Lazaneo. Remember when cut fir trees used for Christmas décor had a pleasant, piney scent? That seasonal aroma you enjoyed in ...
Dec 1, 2017 NEWS: 2018 Spring Garden Tour By John Beaudry. Next year’s SDHS garden tour will feature an assortment of exquisite private gardens of Encinitas in and around the Oliv...
Dec 1, 2017 NEWS: Discounts for SDHS Members As an SDHS partner, Pacific Horticulture offers SDHS members a special membership rate of $24/year using discount code: SDHSPARTNER. You’...
Dec 1, 2017 PLANT OF THE MONTH: Kalanchoe 'Elk Antlers' By Sherrill Leist and Lisa Marun. At each monthly meeting, members bring in plants, cuttings, or flowers and put them in blue bottles on ...
