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NEXT MEETING: Zoom Only – 04/10/’23 The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf

Please join us on April 10, 2023, at 6 p.m. (PST) on Zoom only for this month’s SDHS General Meeting featuring a talk about one of the...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Smart Irrigation = $aving Water In The Landscape

By Will Johnson. (First published in Let’s Talk Plants! August 2008, No. 167.) Studies demonstrate just how much water different types of...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Dirt On Water

By Jeanne Meadow. First published in Let’s Talk Plants! June 2015, No. 249. The California drought is serious. Our state’s mild climate...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Pittosporum undulatum Stories

When you live in Southern California, especially near the coast, you learn to appreciate the subtle signs of the seasons. Japanese Maple and

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Going Wild With Natives - Magical Manzanitas

I can’t think of a group of plants more underappreciated than our native manzanitas. The genus Arctostaphylos encompasses an astonishing arr

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Going On A Water Diet – The 30% Solution, Parts One, Two & Three

What if you had to cut back your water usage this year by 30%? With everything from big droughts to little fish limiting our water supplies

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tomato Fruits - Choose Your Size

The fruits of wild-type tomatoes are yellow and green, and barely the size of the tip of one’s little finger. The tomato probably originated

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Trees, Please! - Premature Obituary

On June 2nd, 1898 American humorist Mark Twain was quoted as follows: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” If trees could talk the