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Dec 1

NO MEETING IN DECEMBER: See You In January For The Next Meeting - Presentation Of Horticulturist of the Year!

On Saturday, January 18, 2025, 1:30p - 3p, at a very special Poway home garden, we will be having our Horticulturist of the Year...

Jan 1, 2023

GUEST COLUMN: A Homegrown National Park

By Joan Herskowitz. Article reprinted in Let’s Talk Plants! January 2023, from "The Lagoon Flyer" newsletter by permission of the Buena...

Apr 30, 2022

GUEST COLUMN: Super-Easy Lazy Composting

By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. I've tried many composting methods over many years of gardening, but in late 2021 I...

Dec 1, 2021

GUEST COLUMN: A Garden Of Felicity In Del Mar

By Jason Chen and Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. Now in her mid nineties, Felicity Drukey, has been gardening in...

Sep 30, 2021

GUEST COLUMN: Dragon Fruit – A Grower’s Comments

By Richard Frost, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2021. The Guatemalan dragon fruit, S. guatemalensis, harvest from a plant in the SE...

Apr 1, 2021

GUEST COLUMN: Camellia Eye Candy

"The recent rains made waste to some (camellia) blooms but also refreshed the soil for new blooms." - Jason Chen, Facebook San Diego Gardene

Feb 1, 2021

GUEST COLUMN: Rose Pruning Time

For climbers, if you have space, the goal is to fan the canes, radiating out. (photo Caption Here, there are some overlapping of branches be

May 31, 2020

GUEST COLUMN: Recognize this Wildflower?

That's how Jim Booman began a post of a photo of the yellow flower seen above on his Facebook wall recently. Jim has been a presenter to the