Garden Surroundings

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Bombus vosnesenskii on California poppy, Eschscholzia californica. Photo credit: Sharon Reeve. JUNE 2022 PROGRAM - SHARON REEVE Bees In...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. Lady Banks Rose has been grown for 2,000 years in gardens in China. It has no...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. ‘April Showers Bring May Flowers’ The expression originates from a line in an...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. Traditionally March is a work horse month in our gardens. My mum, Pat Welsh,...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. ‘Rose is a rose is a rose’ was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Succulents have long been good plants for San Diego County. Although many...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. Cassia splendida. As this year draws to a close I am reminded once again of...

By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Several years ago, a landscape designer friend of mine in the Olivenhain Garden...