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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
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Medicinal Plants
A few months ago, we wrote an essay on “Plants that Heal” (*Current Editor’s note: see below). Although both this and the earlier narrative
Apr 1, 2020
THE BUG MAN: Jumping Spiders - One of the Good Guys
When I was a teenager, I collected a whole bunch of very small jumping spiders into small, clear, plastic containers and watched them for ho
Apr 1, 2020
EDITOR'S LETTER: Gardening Boom Comes From COVID-19
I had a phone conversation last week with my cousin, the owner/operator of Sunshine Gardens in Encinitas about his invalid wife and my inval
Apr 1, 2020
APRIL FOOL'S DAY BOTANY: Echinocereus dahliaeflorus
The page, dubbed "Plant life that exists only on April 1st," has 22 "species," i.e. pranks, that date from 1900 through 2019 and are some of
Apr 1, 2020
MARCH MEETING: Cancelled!
CANCELLED! March 16th, 2020
Mar 12, 2020
EDITOR'S LETTER: "Irish Peony"
In July and August of 2004, December of '07 and June and July of '08 I traveled to Ireland for weeks at a time each trip, specifically to st
Mar 1, 2020
MEETING REPORT & NEWS:
http://www.sdfloral.org/kos-book.htm Got Green? & TOMATOMANIA! at the San Diego Botanic Garden Saturday, April 4 10 am – 4 pm ~...
Mar 1, 2020
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