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Dec 1

NO MEETING IN DECEMBER: See You In January For The Next Meeting - Presentation Of Horticulturist of the Year!

On Saturday, January 18, 2025, 1:30p - 3p, at a very special Poway home garden, we will be having our Horticulturist of the Year...

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Dec 1

NO MEETING IN DECEMBER: See You In January For The Next Meeting - Presentation Of Horticulturist of the Year!

On Saturday, January 18, 2025, 1:30p - 3p, at a very special Poway home garden, we will be having our Horticulturist of the Year...

Dec 1

SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Announcing Next Three Books For The New Year & A Reminder There Is No Meeting In December

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2024. LOOKING AHEAD: Please note: We are taking December off. It's official! The voting...

Dec 1

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Mashatu (Nyala) Tree

Words and photographs by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Mashatu (Nyala) Tree Let’s set the scene for the Mashatu...

Dec 1

TREES, PLEASE! New Tree Taxes? Don’t Laugh.

By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Public domain: United States Botanical Garden. (Accessed 11/16/24)...

Dec 1

PERMACULTURE: Creating Small Scale Fish Scale Swales

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2024. Creating Small Scale Fish Scale Swales This article was inspired after a...

Dec 1

NOVEMBER 2024 MEETING REPORT: Preserve Today, Relish Tomorrow with Master Food Preservers of San Diego County.

For everyone who attended this meeting, an aside report is that Karen gave away all 400 (!) of the Hachiya persimmons that she brought...

Dec 1

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES ARCHIVE: Hedges For Edges

By Pat Pawlowski, originally published in Let’s Talk Plants! December 2014, issue No. 243. Reprinted December 2024. Narrowleaf Milkweed...

Dec 1

SHARING SECRETS: Pumpkin Time And Fall Colors

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Sharing Secrets question – November is pumpkin time and fall colors. Do you...

Dec 1

HERITAGE HAUNTS: Gods And Goddesses In The Garden - Greco-Roman Mythology And The Scientific Names Of Plants & The Story Of The Root-Children

Book review from the archives originally published December 2008, curated by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants! December 2024. Gods and...

Dec 1

GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Storybook Land Inspires Miniature Gardens

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/storybook-land-canal-b...

Oct 31

NEXT HYBRID MEETING: November 16 -"Preserve Today, Relish Tomorrow" UCCE of San Diego Introduces UC Master Food Preservers Of San Diego County.

Unless otherwise stated, we meet the third Saturday of the month at 1:30p at San Diego Oasis in Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center...

Oct 31

SD HORT BOOK CLUB: November 4, 4:30p/5p, The Garden Against Time By Olivia Laing

By Karen England, SD Hort Book Club head muckety-muck, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing...

Oct 31

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS - Front Garden Refresh

Words and pictures by Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. In 1998, when we moved into our 1939 Spanish Colonial Revival...

Oct 31

LUNAR GARDENING: Gardening By The Moon

By Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox. Originally published in The Herbarist 2009, a publication of The Herb Society of America....

Oct 31

TREES, PLEASE! Pines In Oakcrest Park, Encinitas, California

By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Pines In Oakcrest Park Sometime in the last approximately 35 years some Torrey...

Oct 31

GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Savoring Summer's Best—Growing Tomatoes All Winter

By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Savoring Summer's Best—Growing Tomatoes all Winter After spending the summer...