Botanical Encounters

NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Water Wisdom, Plants & Rebates On June 12, ‘23

Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on June 12, 2023 at 6p at CBI in-person/6:30p Zoom for our next hybrid meeting. Water...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Palms of the Okavango Delta

Words and pictures by Ida Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Palms of the Okavango Delta Two palms, the real fan palm, Hypnaena...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: The Art Of Container Gardening In Vietnam

Words and pictures by Ida K. Rigby for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2023. The Art of Container Gardening in Vietnam As a follow up to the...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Vietnamese Lunar New Year, 2012

Words and photos by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2023. On January 22 we celebrated the Lunar New Year, so for this...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Okavango Delta Wetlands, Part 2

Text and photos by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2022. Okavango Delta Wetlands, Part 2 In the last column we glided...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: The Okavango Delta - The Wetlands

Text and photos by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2022. Botanical Encounters 4 Before we make the transition from our last...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Mopane Woodlands

Text and photos by Ida Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2022. Mopane Woodlands The mopane woodlands of southern Africa are usually...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Baobab Is A Superherb!

Text and photos by Ida Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2022. Baobab, the African baobab “tree”, Adansonia digitata, is in fact a...