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June 2026
Monthly Meeting


NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Right Tree, Right Place, Right Fire Zone: A Look at San Diego’s Trees and Their Future, With Tony Gurnoe, June 20, In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Native trees are all the rage, with municipalities such as Encinitas passing regulations that require new landscape development projects to include native species. Which trees count as native? Are they good choices for your yard? How do native trees relate to fire and California's new zone 0 regulations? We'll talk about all of these things while profiling some of San Diego's unique and often underappreciated local trees. Tony Gurnoe has conducted research related to native t
Jun 1
Articles


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Strine Outback Bush Walk – Part 3
Fabulous Fitzgerald, Heavenly Hakea, and the Best Banksia By Jim Bishop. This is part three of a series about a Sept 2016 trip to view...
Feb 1, 2017


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Strine Outback Bush Walk – Part 2
By Jim Bishop. This is part two of a series about a September 2016 trip to view the wildflowers and scenery of Southwestern Australia....
Jan 1, 2017


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Strine Outback Bush Walk – Part 1
By Jim Bishop. This is part one of series about a September 2016 trip to view the wildflowers and scenery of Southwestern Australia. At...
Dec 1, 2016


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Agavaceae Part 2 – the Aggravation
By: Jim Bishop. This is a continuation of last month’s article “The Adoration”, Part 1 about growing agaves. Agaves are great garden...
Nov 1, 2016


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Agavaceae Part 1 – the Adoration
By Jim Bishop. We have a lot of agaves in our garden. However, it took me a while to warm up to agaves. One of the first ones I grew was...
Oct 1, 2016


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: More Plants go in!
By Jim Bishop. This is a continuation of columns from May and July 2016 about planting the casita gardens back in 2003. You may recall...
Sep 1, 2016


MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: O Canada! Revisited
By Jim Bishop. I wrote in my November 2013 column that a 1984 family trip to several gardens in British Columbia, Canada, was the...
Jul 1, 2016
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