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October 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Ferns and Lycophytes of San Diego County, With Jon Rebman, October 17, In-Person, Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, 1:30p -3:30p
Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., Curator and Chair of Botany, San Diego Natural History Museum. Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., is Curator/Chair of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum (since 1996) and a plant taxonomist who conducts extensive floristic research in Baja California and in San Diego and Imperial counties. He leads field classes and botanical expeditions and directs the San Diego County Plant Atlas project (sdplantatlas.org). Personal scientific collections: 37,000+ plant
Oct 1
Articles
THE UNDERSTORY: Hummingbirds and Their Friends
By Susan Starr. Hummingbirds have found my garden. I have to confess that it wasn’t intentional. When I introduced more drought-tolerant...
Aug 1, 2019
THE UNDERSTORY: The Tequila Agave
By Susan Starr. At our January meeting, Jeff Chemnick took us on a photographic tour of the plants of the Sierra Madres, which included...
Mar 1, 2019
THE UNDERSTORY: Blighted Camellias
By Susan Starr. Almost all of us are familiar with that most common of camellia diseases, camellia flower or petal blight. At our...
Mar 1, 2018
THE UNDERSTORY: Phosphorus and Australian plants
By Susan Starr. This is the first in a series of occasional columns providing further information from the scientific literature on...
Apr 1, 2017
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