Botanical Encounters

NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Tips For Improving (Or Starting) Your Rose Garden W/SD Rosarian Beth Van Boxtel

Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on November 13, 2023, at 6 pm at CBI in-person or 6:30 pm on Zoom for our next hybrid...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Farming In The High Atlas Mountains Of Morocco

Words and pictures by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2023. Farming in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco I had planned to...

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Acacias Of Southern Africa - Part 1

By Ida Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. Acacias of Southern Africa - Part 1 Acacias are the iconic trees of the semi-arid...

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...