The Understory

NEXT MEETING: The Horticultural History Of San Diego Presented By John Clements, May 17, 2025, 1:30 p.m. In-person, Oasis Rancho Bernardo

This vintage photo of San Diego is a favorite of John Clements'. The dark dot just to the left of the middle of the photograph is a large...

May 1

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

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

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

By Susan Starr. This is the first in a series of occasional columns providing further information from the scientific literature on...

Apr 1, 2017