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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
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Steep Challenge
By Jim Bishop. While we were working on remodeling the house, I was desperate to create a garden. However, there were a few challenges to...
Mar 1, 2015
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Make a Home
By Jim Bishop. Last month I wrote about finding and buying our current home in Mission Hills. However before we could move, we had to...
Mar 1, 2015
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: On the Move
By Jim Bishop. I met Scott Borden in September of 1994. November of that year we visited Maui. In June of 1995 we spent my 40th birthday...
Feb 1, 2015
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Raising the Roof
By Jim Bishop. In October of 1983, when I bought my house in Encinitas, I assumed I’d be living there only a few years. Encinitas was...
Jan 1, 2015
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Uncle Harry
By Jim Bishop. A watercolor painting hangs in our T.V. room that everyone has always referred to as “The Sheik”. It was painted by my...
Dec 1, 2014
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Holy Basil
By Jim Bishop. While I’ve mostly been written in this column about the ornamental landscaping of my home in Encinitas, I also had a...
Nov 1, 2014
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: We're Legal Now
By Jim Bishop. As this month's column marks the start of our 21st year and my 4th year as president, I thought now would be a good time...
Oct 1, 2014
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