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October 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Ferns and Lycophytes of San Diego County, With Jon Rebman, October 17, In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., Curator and Chair of Botany, San Diego Natural History Museum. Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., is Curator/Chair of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum (since 1996) and a plant taxonomist who conducts extensive floristic research in Baja California and in San Diego and Imperial counties. He leads field classes and botanical expeditions and directs the San Diego County Plant Atlas project (sdplantatlas.org). Personal scientific collections: 37,000+ plant
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Articles
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Ferns and Lycophytes of San Diego County, With Jon Rebman, October 17, In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., Curator and Chair of Botany, San Diego Natural History Museum. Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., is Curator/Chair of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum (since 1996) and a plant taxonomist who conducts extensive floristic research in Baja California and in San Diego and Imperial counties. He leads field classes and botanical expeditions and directs the San Diego County Plant Atlas project (sdplantatlas.org). Personal scientific collections: 37,000+ plant
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NEXT SHARING GARDEN: Vista Sharing Garden: Saturday, November 7, 2026, With Group Tours From 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2026. Photo credit: Member Sherry Simmons, used with permission. Registration for members to open soon: https://sdhort.org/FeaturedGarden Saturday, November 7, 2026, Group 1 – 10 AM to 11:30 AM Group 2 – 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Group 3 – 2 PM – 3:30 PM Julian Duval (the SDHS Horticulturist of the Year in 2014) was the first President/CEO of Quail Botanical Gardens (now San Diego Botanic Garden) from 1995 until 2019,
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FROM THE MASTER GARDENERS: A Case for California Native Plants
By Lucy Warren, UCCE Master Gardener of San Diego County, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2026. A Case for California Native Plants As gardeners, we are drawn to the latest, brightest varieties of exotic species for our gardens, always chasing the new and unusual. But as our world heats up with climate change, more and more water-thirsty lawns are being sacrificed for moonscapes of rocks and cactus, or spiky, heat-intensive green plastic “lawns.” Neither of these alternatives
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GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Beat the Heat: Smart Fall Gardening in San Diego
By Sommer Cartier, for Lets Talk Plants! October 2026 Shade cloth example. Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeyz51/ Jo Zimny Photos. Beat the Heat: Smart Fall Gardening in San Diego Fall always gets me excited about the garden. I'm ready to start pulling out tired summer plants, refreshing beds and making room for lettuce, broccoli, carrots and all the other cool- season vegetables I love to grow. But if you've gardened in San Diego for any length of time, you kno
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TREES, PLEASE! Ten Common Myths of Trees – Need a Reminder?
By Robin Y Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2026. Myth #1: “Topping” and “Lacing” are valid arboricultural pruning terms… They are not. DO NOT TOP YOUR TREES! Topping is destructive tree mutilation. You won’t find either term in the older ANSI A300 tree care standards or the 2023 updates. Although heavy crown-reduction in orchards may appear to ease fruit harvesting, the wounds increase risk of disease, sun scald and incur yearly high-maintenance - assumed by a grower
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GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Bonsai - The Art of Making the Mighty into ‘Miniatures’ Even with Native Plants!
By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2026. This Coast Live Oak is approximately 100 years old and has small leaves. Typically, bonsais have leaves that are smaller than full size trees of the same species. Photo by Susan Lewitt. Bonsai - The Art of Making the Mighty into ‘Miniatures’ Even with Native Plants! Do you want more native trees, but you have no space for them? How about having ‘miniature’ trees, or Bonsais, instead. There are many native plants that may d
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PLANT FORUM: At The August 2026 Meeting
By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2026. In July 2025 Anne Murphy brought in a delightful bouquet of nine species of flowering California native plants for the Plant Forum. Graphic made by Karen England on Canva. For over two decades a meeting highlight was the Plant Forum, where a horticultural expert spoke about plants brought in by members. These descriptions appeared in the newsletter and are available free to the public on our website at...
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