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February 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Riley Black, When The Earth Was Green, February 21, Oasis, RB And Zoom
Riley Black is the bestselling and award-winning author of When the Earth Was Green , The Last Days of the Dinosaurs , and more. A regular contributor to National Geographic , Smithsonian , and Slate , as well as a repeat guest on NOVA and Science Friday , Riley has spent more than fifteen years bringing the public the latest about the deep past. When not enthusing over fossils in articles and books, Riley regularly volunteers with museum field teams to uncover new
Feb 1
Articles
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Off to Keukenhof
By Jim Bishop. This May, Scott and I finally decided it was time to visit the tulip fields at Keukenhof in the Netherlands – described as...
Jul 31, 2019
NEWS: Enrich Your Life! Take a Class at SDBG
By Lisa Reynolds. As summer begins, our education classes at San Diego Botanic Garden really heat up! This month we invite you to try one...
May 31, 2019
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Borrego Bonanza, Part II
By Jim Bishop. We made a visit to Borrego in February and another in March to check out this year’s super-bloom. Part I, which appeared...
May 31, 2019
MEETING REPORT: The Future of Botanic Gardens
By Jeannine Romero. Our May speaker was Dr. Ari Novy, President and CEO of the San Diego Botanic Gardens. Novy recently replaced Julian...
May 31, 2019
SHARING SECRETS: Game of Thorns
Edited by Tina Ivany. Are you waging battle against any invasive plants or animals in your garden? How did these intruders come into...
May 31, 2019
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Those Yellow Hills are Alive with…..?
By Linda Jones. I drove up Interstate 5 at the end of March to central California and everything was so alive with color and greenery....
May 31, 2019
GUEST COLUMNIST: The Marvels of Medicinal Herbs
By Mike Blanco, Mary Friestedt, and Lan Lin. Herbs! We love them. We grow them for food, for their scent, and as ornamentals. However,...
May 31, 2019
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