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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
Nov 1
Articles
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Agavaceae Part 1 – the Adoration
By Jim Bishop. We have a lot of agaves in our garden. However, it took me a while to warm up to agaves. One of the first ones I grew was...
Oct 1, 2016
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: More Plants go in!
By Jim Bishop. This is a continuation of columns from May and July 2016 about planting the casita gardens back in 2003. You may recall...
Sep 1, 2016
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: O Canada! Revisited
By Jim Bishop. I wrote in my November 2013 column that a 1984 family trip to several gardens in British Columbia, Canada, was the...
Jul 1, 2016
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: The Plants start to go in!
By: Jim Bishop. This is a continuation of columns from September, October, and November 2015 newsletters about filling in our swimming...
May 1, 2016
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: South Africa – The Garden Route
By: Jim Bishop. The last two months I’ve written about the Northern Cape of South Africa and Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden....
Feb 1, 2016
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Kirstenbosch, South Africa – This is the place!
By Jim Bishop. Last month I wrote about visiting the bulb fields at of the Western Cape area of South Africa this past September....
Jan 1, 2016
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Nieuwoudtville, South Africa
By Jim Bishop. As some of you may know, I turned 60 this year. As part of the celebration, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling to places...
Dec 1, 2015
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