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November 2025
Monthly Meeting
NEXT MEETING: A Strawberry Is Not A Fruit With The Plant Guy! Chuck McClung Explains Botanical Complexities And More... Nov. 15, 2025, Oasis, RB
In-person at San Diego Oasis, Rancho Bernardo, CA. Online registration required - SD Hort Member (and their guest) registration is FREE and in-person non-member registration is $15.00 (Consider joining or renewing with the San Diego Horticultural Society for $30.00 and attend this meeting for free.) Next meeting: November 15, 2025 At Oasis RB, 1:30p-3p Chuck the Plant Guy! Chuck McClung is a lifelong plant enthusiast, gardening mentor, landscaping consultant, and author. Popu
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Articles
GARDENS OF THE WORLD: Gardens of Northern Italy Near Lake Como
By Frank Mitzel. Starting in 1989, I've visited the Lake Como region of northern Italy five times during the eighteen trips to Italy that...
Jan 1, 2018
FROM THE EDITOR: Lilac Fire Destroys Local Nursery
By Susan Starr. Rainforest Flora’s growing grounds, located at the epicenter of the Lilac Fire, on West Lilac Road, was completely...
Jan 1, 2018
NEWS: Garden-Themed Egyptian Tapestries on Display
For the second successive year, garden-themed tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre in Egypt will be on display at the San...
Jan 1, 2018
TREES, PLEASE: This One's for the Birds
By Tim Clancy. One of the great pleasures of working with trees is the opportunity to observe the relationships of creatures with trees....
Jan 1, 2018
THE REAL DIRT ON: Norbert Rillieux: Engineer, Inventor, and Father of Sugar Processing
By Susan Krzywicki. Sugar production in California has a long and, excuse the pun, lumpy history. But understanding the history of sugar...
Jan 1, 2018
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: How to Grow Woolly Blue Curls
By Lee Gordon. Trichostema lanatum, or woolly blue curls, may be San Diego’s most beautiful native shrub, but it has a reputation for...
Jan 1, 2018
NEWS: 2018 Spring Garden Tour
By John Beaudry. Our 2018 Spring Garden Tour will be in beautiful Encinitas on April 7, 2018. The tour will feature eleven gardens in the...
Jan 1, 2018
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