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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


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...
Jul 1, 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...
Jul 1, 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...
Jul 1, 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...
Jun 1, 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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