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November 2025
Monthly Meeting
NEXT MEETING: A Strawberry Is Not A Fruit With The Plant Guy! Chuck McClung Explains Botanical Complexities And More... Nov. 15, 2025, Oasis, RB
In-person at San Diego Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, CA. Online registration required - SD Hort Member (and their guest) registration is FREE and in-person non-member registration is $15.00 (Consider joining or renewing with the San Diego Horticultural Society for $30.00 and attend this meeting for free.) Next meeting: November 15, 2025 At Oasis RB, 1:30p-3p Chuck the Plant Guy! Chuck McClung is a lifelong plant enthusiast, gardening mentor, landscaping consultant, and author. Popu
Nov 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
Mar 31, 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
Mar 31, 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
Mar 31, 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
Mar 31, 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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