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December 2025
Monthly Meeting
NEXT MEETING: Celebrating The Horticulturist Of The Year 2026, Nancy Carol Carter, On January 17, From 1:30p - 3:30p At Oasis Rancho Bernardo (Upstairs In The Grand Assembly Hall)
Nancy Carol Carter Celebrating the Horticulturist of the Year for 2026 Nancy Carol Carter. Reminder, there is no meeting in December. Join us on January 17, from 1:30p - 3:30p, at Oasis Rancho Bernardo (Note: this meeting will be held upstairs in the Grand Assembly Hall and not in our regular room downstairs.) Click here to register to attend. About Nancy - After a long and rewarding career in legal education, Nancy Carol Carter retired as a Professor of Law and Director o
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Articles
THE REAL DIRT ON: Edna Walling: A Progressive Australian Landscape Designer
By Carol Buckley. One of Australia’s foremost garden designers was born in York, England, in 1895. Edna Margaret Walling began her love...
Oct 1, 2017
THE REAL DIRT ON: Ynés Mexía: A Short (but Impressive!) Career in Botany
By Susan Krzywicki. There seems to be no end to the fascinating characters that have contributed to our state’s botanical and...
Aug 31, 2017
THE REAL DIRT ON: Horace Mann Jr.
By Carol Buckley. Perched on a slope high above the Pacific Ocean on Kauai, 20-year-old Horace Mann Jr. collected a fern (to be named...
Aug 1, 2017
THE REAL DIRT ON: Peter Raven, Biodiversity Maven
By Susan Krzywicki. Peter Raven is the beloved American botanist and environmentalist who has advised the Pope, run the famed Missouri...
Jul 1, 2017
THE REAL DIRT ON: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann
By Carol Buckley. As a daughter of 19th century Massachusetts, Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, born in 1806, was exposed to the...
Jun 1, 2017
THE REAL DIRT ON: Katharine Brandegee
By Susan Krzywicki. Mary Katharine (Layne) Brandegee was born in 1844 in western Tennessee and frequently moved westward with her parents...
May 1, 2017
THE REAL DIRT ON: Dame Sylvia Crowe
By Carol Buckley. In these times of growing concern about land use and the need for development, the British landscape architect Dame...
Apr 1, 2017
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