From the Editor

NEXT MEETING: Zoom Only – 04/10/’23 The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf

Please join us on April 10, 2023, at 6 p.m. (PST) on Zoom only for this month’s SDHS General Meeting featuring a talk about one of the...

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

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

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

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

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

EDITOR'S LETTER: Quarantine Snailpocalypse

While the rest of the world learned to make sourdough bread with little or no ingredients or started a victory garden with a clay pot that t

EDITOR’S LETTER: Smartphone Gardening - There’s an App for That!

I am never without my smartphone because it is how I communicate with my invalid mother who lives with me. She texts me when she needs somet