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June 2025
Monthly Meeting
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Agave Restoration And Corridor Conservation For Bats And People Of The American Southwest And Mexico - June 21, 2025, 1:30p - 3p, SD Oasis, Rancho Bernardo & Zoom
Horizonline Pictures, Bat Conservation International. NOTE: This is a hybrid in-person meeting and in this instance the speaker will be...
Jun 1
Articles
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Agave Restoration And Corridor Conservation For Bats And People Of The American Southwest And Mexico - June 21, 2025, 1:30p - 3p, SD Oasis, Rancho Bernardo & Zoom
Horizonline Pictures, Bat Conservation International. NOTE: This is a hybrid in-person meeting and in this instance the speaker will be...
Jun 1
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Next Book - June 2 , 2025, Elderflora By Jared Farmer On Zoom
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2025. Have you heard how much fun the SD Hort Book Club is? It's amazing, and I'm not just...
Jun 1
IN MEMORIAM: Remembering Yvonne Mao, San Diego Horticultural Society Member And Friend
By Jim Booman, reprinted from Facebook with permission, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2025. Yvonne Mao, San Diego Horticultural Society...
Jun 1
BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Rewilding In Southern Africa - The Kalahari Dunes
Words and pictures by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Rewilding In Southern Africa - The Kalahari Dunes The Kalahari...
Jun 1
FROM THE BOARD: Please Welcome Our Two Newest Board Members – John Clements And Susi Torre-Bueno
Please Welcome Our Two Newest Board Members – John Clements and Susi Torre-Bueno Great News! At the most recent board meeting on May 19,...
Jun 1
PLANT FORUM: Please Welcome Back The Plant Forum To The Monthly Meetings
By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Plant Forum Returns to Monthly Meetings From our first SD Hort meeting in 1994...
Jun 1
TREES, PLEASE! Life Is Alive And Well In Our Urban Trees
By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Close-up of the enormous Moreton Bay Fig – San Diego’s Balboa Park - SDNHM I t’s...
Jun 1
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: San Diego Is Not A Desert, But…
By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Beavertail Pricklypear in bloom. Photo courtesy of Calscape. San Diego is Not a...
Jun 1
FROM THE MASTER GARDENERS: Lavender
By Lee Somerville, UCCE San Diego Master Gardener. This article first appeared in May 2024 in the “Garden Mastery” column of the Union...
Jun 1
PERMACULTURE: Edible Flowers
By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Crocus Flowers. Artist is bernswaelz. Provided by pixabay.com . This article is...
Jun 1
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Wildflower In Bloom Now
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Wix stock photo. This month’s question: Do you have a favorite flower, plant or...
Jun 1
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Inviting People To Enjoy The Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. "If you build it, they will come." Inviting People to Enjoy the Garden There is a...
Jun 1
NEXT MEETING: The Horticultural History Of San Diego Presented By John Clements, May 17, 2025, 1:30 p.m. In-person, Oasis Rancho Bernardo
This vintage photo of San Diego is a favorite of John Clements'. The dark dot just to the left of the middle of the photograph is a large...
May 1
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Next Book - May 5, 2025, Nature's Best Hope By Douglas Tallamy On Zoom
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! April 2025. Have you heard how much fun the SD Hort Book Club is? It's amazing, and I'm not just...
May 1
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Blue-eyed Grass - San Diego's New Official Flower
Text and photos by Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! May 2025. It's official. Blue-eyed grass is now the official flower of San Diego....
May 1
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: The Magic Of Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2025. Photo credit: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. The Magic of Growing Heirloom...
May 1
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