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June 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Right Tree, Right Place, Right Fire Zone: A Look at San Diego’s Trees and Their Future, With Tony Gurnoe, June 20, In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Native trees are all the rage, with municipalities such as Encinitas passing regulations that require new landscape development projects to include native species. Which trees count as native? Are they good choices for your yard? How do native trees relate to fire and California's new zone 0 regulations? We'll talk about all of these things while profiling some of San Diego's unique and often underappreciated local trees. Tony Gurnoe has conducted research related to native t
Jun 1
Articles
FALLBROOK FOOD FOREST: Plant Guilds.
Fallbrook’s Finch Frolic Garden is a food forest begun in 2011. A food forest is a collection of useful plants arranged in relationships
Dec 1, 2019
TREES, PLEASE: Do You Pine - Fir a Cedar?
Evergreens you might choose, but no larches, spruce or yews… Araucarias: Eye-catching as a towering species, the Norfolk Island pine is ope
Dec 1, 2019
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Parasitic, or not so Parasitic, Plants.
The Broomrape family are parasites with specialized structures on the roots for taking food, water and nutrients from the host plants.
Dec 1, 2019
SHARING SECRETS: Cut Flowers or Potted Plants?
Which of these do you give more often as a gift: cut flowers or potted flowers/plants?
Dec 1, 2019
EDITOR'S LETTER: December Roses.
British playwright and author, James M. Barrie, 1860-1937, is attributed with saying “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in
Dec 1, 2019
MEETING REPORT: Palms For San Diego.
Palm tree lovers were treated to a visual feast when Gregg Opgenorth, head grower of Grubb & Nadler Nurseries (formerly East West Trees)
Dec 1, 2019
PUBLIC SCHOOL GARDEN GRANTS: Abraxas High School.
In the November newsletter, Pioneer Elementary in Escondido was featured as the first $1000 recipient of the San Diego Horticultural Society
Dec 1, 2019
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