My Life with Plants

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...

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: The Plants start to go in!

By: Jim Bishop. This is a continuation of columns from September, October, and November 2015 newsletters about filling in our swimming...

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: South Africa – The Garden Route

By: Jim Bishop. The last two months I’ve written about the Northern Cape of South Africa and Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden....

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Kirstenbosch, South Africa – This is the place!

By Jim Bishop. Last month I wrote about visiting the bulb fields at of the Western Cape area of South Africa this past September....

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Nieuwoudtville, South Africa

By Jim Bishop. As some of you may know, I turned 60 this year. As part of the celebration, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling to places...

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Pool Be Gone – Part 3

By Jim Bishop. The last 2 months, I discussed how we came up with a design to replace our pool with a casita, stair tower and several...

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Pool Be Gone – Part 2

By Jim Bishop. Last month, I discussed how we came up with a design to replace our pool with a casita, stair tower and several garden...

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Pool Be Gone - Part 1

By Jim Bishop. By 2000, we had completed most of the remodel of the rooms inside the house. When we had started to do the remodel one of...