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April 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Sat., April 18, 2026 - Walker Wilson - Conservation Through Cultivation - Growing A Local Ecotype Nursery. In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Viguiera laciniata - San Diego Bush Sunflower, a San Diego endemic species that happens to be excellent for garden conditions. Evergreen, tough and made for full sun conditions, it will still stay green with just once a month or less watering. Trim off dead flowers for another round of blooms. A great choice for almost any San Diego garden, and to showcase local species. Walker Wilson is the founder of Walker's Wildlands nursery in Fallbrook. Walker Wilson - Conservation thr
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Articles
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Growing Nightshades (Solanaceae) - What To Know For A Healthy, Productive Garden
By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2026. Nightshades (Solanaceae), photo credit: Sommer Cartier. Growing Nightshades (Solanaceae) - What To Know For A Healthy, Productive Garden If your summer garden revolves around fresh salsa, pasta sauce, or anything grilled and colorful, chances are you’re already growing from the nightshade family, whether you realize it or not. Tomatoes ripening on the vine, glossy peppers in every shade of green to red, eggplant soaking up
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SHARING SECRETS: What’s New That Helps You?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2026. Current question: Are you using a new tool, implement, piece of hardware or structure to assist you to accommodate your garden? What is it and what does it do to assist you? Susi Torre-Bueno of 92084 created something… …It's not a new device, but I have used those cone-shaped wire tomato cages in a new way. I was gifted some large heavy bromeliad plants and put a tomato cage around each one to help it stay upright unti
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NEW WEBSITE TO VISIT: Kate O. Sessions Information https://KateOSessions.Info
A new website offers freely accessible, authoritative information about Katherine Olivia Sessions (1857-1940), a San Diego horticulturist and businesswoman known as “The Mother of Balboa Park.” Biographical information, a detailed timeline of Sessions’ life and annotated lists of published articles are included, along with an inventory of Sessions photographs and guides to archival sources, oral histories and memorials. More content will be added to the site. The website is p
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NAME TAG: You're It!
Name tags ready for pick up at the next meeting... Photo credit: Karen England. Have you ordered a name tag? If your name is listed below (alphabetically by last name if there is one...), then your name tag is done and can be picked up at the next meeting: Mike Binder Katheryn Blankenship Betsy Buckner Claudia Chan-Shaffer Christel Chase Darin Chiu Shirley Chiu Carol Costarakis Carina Courtright Ciela Courtright Elyse Crone Shannon Cummins Gene Darby Michelle Darby Debbie Mi
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: April Fool's Day Botany
By Golly, (really by Karen England), originally published in Let's Talk Plants! April 1, 2020. Reprinted April 1, 2026. WiX stock photo. APRIL FOOL'S DAY BOTANY: Echinocereus dahliaeflorus What would April be without a Prank? The Museum of Hoaxes has a page dedicated to April Fool's Day Botany. 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 the best April Fool's Day jokes ever p
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GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Alive With Purple In The Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2026. Photo credit: Francesca Filanc. Alive With Purple in the Garden “April showers bring May flowers” is an old adage, but nowadays things are different. With the advent of climate change that many people predicted would happen including the King of England years ago, when he was a young Prince, advocating against fossil fuels, and for growing vegetables organically, which he has done in his own gardens, and working to make
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MEETING REPORT: February 2026 Meeting Recording Featuring Riley Black Presenting When The Earth Was Green Now On SDHS YouTube Channel
https://youtu.be/IxRedVyh2IU?si=Zd3LVQd8nvk6iRd3 GOOD TO KNOW: On April 6th, 2026, the SD Hort Book Club is discussing this book! Head over to the SD Hort Book Club article in this edition of the Let's Talk Plants! newsletter to learn more...
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