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November 2025
Monthly Meeting
NEXT MEETING: A Strawberry Is Not A Fruit With The Plant Guy! Chuck McClung Explains Botanical Complexities And More... Nov. 15, 2025, Oasis, RB
In-person at San Diego Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, CA. Online registration required - SD Hort Member (and their guest) registration is FREE and in-person non-member registration is $15.00 (Consider joining or renewing with the San Diego Horticultural Society for $30.00 and attend this meeting for free.) Next meeting: November 15, 2025 At Oasis RB, 1:30p-3p Chuck the Plant Guy! Chuck McClung is a lifelong plant enthusiast, gardening mentor, landscaping consultant, and author. Popu
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Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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