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NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Agave Restoration And Corridor Conservation For Bats And People Of The American Southwest And Mexico - June 21, 2025, 1:30p - 3p, SD Oasis, Rancho Bernardo & Zoom

Horizonline Pictures, Bat Conservation International. NOTE: This is a hybrid in-person meeting and in this instance the speaker will be...

Jun 1

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

Jul 1, 2021

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

Jun 1, 2021

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

May 1, 2021

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

Apr 1, 2021

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

Mar 1, 2021

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

Feb 1, 2021

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

Jan 1, 2021