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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
SHARING SECRETS: Rain Revelations
Edited by Tina Ivany. Have there been any surprises in your garden after all the rains this year? For example, are there plants in your...
Jun 30, 2019
GUEST COLUMNIST: It's a Cycad, not a Sago Palm
By Robert Kopfstein. Cycads are perhaps the victim of one of the most common misnomers in the plant world. There are indeed such things...
Jun 30, 2019
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Red-blooming Natives for San Diego
By Clayton Tschudy. Native flowers come in all colors, but yellows, blues, and purples are most common. When red does occur, the plant is...
Jun 30, 2019
MONTHLY MEETING: Kumeyaay Ethnobotany
Join us on July 8 for a presentation by anthropologist and California State University, San Marcos professor, Michael Wilken-Robertson....
Jun 10, 2019
NEWS: The Journey Home: the SDHS Garden Show Display
By Greg Rubin. When the SDHS honored me with a request to design and install their display for the 2019 SD County Fair, and its Wizard of...
May 31, 2019
MONTHLY MEETING: Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens
Christopher Woods, garden consultant and former Director and Chief Designer of Chanticleer Gardens, has recently returned from three...
Feb 11, 2019
SHARING SECRETS: February Bloomers
"It's winter! What's blooming in your garden? Annie Urquhart: Growing chard, spinach and herbs. Started a hydroponics garden, with...
Feb 1, 2019
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