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April 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Sat., April 18, 2026 - Walker Wilson - Conservation Through Cultivation - Growing A Local Ecotype Nursery. In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Viguiera laciniata - San Diego Bush Sunflower, a San Diego endemic species that happens to be excellent for garden conditions. Evergreen, tough and made for full sun conditions, it will still stay green with just once a month or less watering. Trim off dead flowers for another round of blooms. A great choice for almost any San Diego garden, and to showcase local species. Walker Wilson is the founder of Walker's Wildlands nursery in Fallbrook. Walker Wilson - Conservation thr
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Articles
FINCH FROLIC GARDEN PERMACULTURE: Three Reasons
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. An excellent permaculture method of evaluating your landscape is to use a...
Dec 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Prepare For Water Harvest Now!
By Diane Kennedy for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. One inch of rain falling on one acre in an hour is 27,154 gallons of pure, free,...
Oct 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: The Ethics of Permaculture
By Diane Kennedy. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term permaculture in the 1970’s, and with the term they defined the...
Aug 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Composting for Everyone
Turning organic materials into rich soil for food production isn’t a mystery. Organic stuff is eaten by creatures of diminishing sizes, poop
Mar 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: What is a Plant Guild?
Permaculture encompasses methods of gardening, horticulture and agriculture based on observations of nature. While that sounds very prosaic,
Jan 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Hügelkultur - Burying Wood
Hügelkultur (hoo-gull culture) has ancient origins in the mountains of Germany, where warmth is treasured and rain is frequent. There they
Nov 1, 2020
PERMACULTURE: Be a Soil Farmer
Permaculturists are soil farmers first and plant growers second. All the world’s wealth is in its soil and the real gold is the microorganis
Sep 1, 2020
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