From the Editor

NEXT MEETING: John Clements, Horticulturist Of The Year Presentation @ SDBG On Tue Oct 11 3pm

The San Diego Horticultural Society's Horticulturist of the Year for 2022 honoree, John Clements, Director of Gardens at the San Diego...

EDITOR’S LETTER: Yet The Lilac With Mastering Odor Holds Me

By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d - By Walt Whitman When lilacs last in the...

NEWS: Saying Goodbye To Two Longtime Sponsors & One Horticulturist Of The Year

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Some of the sad news of 2021 is that the SDHS and the San Diego community at large...

MEMBERS GARDENS PHOTOS: July 2021

Edited by Ken Gland. President and newsletter editor-in-chief, Karen England, asked at the last meeting for members to send in current...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Miss American Green Cross of 1928 Pleads "Help Save Our Trees"

By Karen England. Historically the Green Cross has had many different iterations from meaning "First Aid," or a "Medical Marijuana...

EDITOR'S LETTER: You Heard It Here First … Roses Are Easy To Grow

By Karen England. First published in 2012 on edgehillherbfarm.blog. The rose was the Herb of the Year™ for 2012 and when folks find this...

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

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