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Apr 1

NEXT MEETING: Gabriel Frank, Striking Succulent Gardens, May 10, 2021 at 6pm on ZOOM.

Join with us on Zoom May 10th at 6pm for a Striking Succulent Gardens presentation with Gabriel Frank. The Zoom link is emailed to the...

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Apr 1

EDITOR'S LETTER: I'm just an April Fool . . .

Well, I can't resist posting just one more April Fool's Day Botany article, even though I tried using restraint by only posting one such pr

Feb 1

EDITOR'S LETTER: Tomatoes, Worthy of the Mania

Like all events everywhere, the Vista Garden Club's May 2020 Annual Flower Show and Plant Sale was canceled. And, as a result, the plant sal

Dec 1, 2020

EDITOR'S LETTER: The Garden in the Carols

For a very long time now, decades really, I have been working on an idea for a gardening book called “The Garden in the Carols", all about t

Nov 1, 2020

EDITOR'S LETTER: Come Into The Garden, Cook

During this pandemic I have been chipping away indoor and out at my home projects list, comfortingly it turns out, much as I have been doing

Oct 1, 2020

EDITOR'S LETTER: The "Set" (Song) List from the Horticultural Concert

Will the roses bloom where she lies sleeping Will the flowers shed their petals there Will the dewdrops fall upon the roses Where my darling

Sep 1, 2020

EDITOR'S LETTER: Dos and Don'ts of Power Pole Gardening

Do you have a power pole in your garden? I do. And, for the last 19 years I have successfully gardened around mine. I say successfully becau

Jul 1, 2020

EDITOR'S LETTER: Dogs in the Garden

One of the unexpected outcomes of the Covid-19 quarantine is the remarkable number of pets that have been rescued from shelters worldwide. M

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