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March 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: 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. Photo Credit: Walkers Wildlands – California Native Plant Nursery 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
Mar 1
Articles
BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Mashatu (Nyala) Tree
Words and photographs by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Mashatu (Nyala) Tree Let’s set the scene for the Mashatu...
Dec 1, 2024
TREES, PLEASE! New Tree Taxes? Don’t Laugh.
By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Public domain: United States Botanical Garden. (Accessed 11/16/24)...
Dec 1, 2024
PERMACULTURE: Creating Small Scale Fish Scale Swales
By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2024. Creating Small Scale Fish Scale Swales This article was inspired after a...
Dec 1, 2024
NOVEMBER 2024 MEETING REPORT: Preserve Today, Relish Tomorrow with Master Food Preservers of San Diego County.
For everyone who attended this meeting, an aside report is that Karen gave away all 400 (!) of the Hachiya persimmons that she brought...
Dec 1, 2024
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES ARCHIVE: Hedges For Edges
By Pat Pawlowski, originally published in Let’s Talk Plants! December 2014, issue No. 243. Reprinted December 2024. Narrowleaf Milkweed...
Dec 1, 2024
SHARING SECRETS: Pumpkin Time And Fall Colors
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Sharing Secrets question – November is pumpkin time and fall colors. Do you...
Dec 1, 2024
HERITAGE HAUNTS: Gods And Goddesses In The Garden - Greco-Roman Mythology And The Scientific Names Of Plants & The Story Of The Root-Children
Book review from the archives originally published December 2008, curated by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants! December 2024. Gods and...
Dec 1, 2024
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Storybook Land Inspires Miniature Gardens
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/storybook-land-canal-b...
Dec 1, 2024
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: November 16 -"Preserve Today, Relish Tomorrow" UCCE of San Diego Introduces UC Master Food Preservers Of San Diego County.
Unless otherwise stated, we meet the third Saturday of the month at 1:30p at San Diego Oasis in Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center...
Nov 1, 2024
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: November 4, 4:30p/5p, The Garden Against Time By Olivia Laing
By Karen England, SD Hort Book Club head muckety-muck, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing...
Nov 1, 2024
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS - Front Garden Refresh
Words and pictures by Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. In 1998, when we moved into our 1939 Spanish Colonial Revival...
Nov 1, 2024
LUNAR GARDENING: Gardening By The Moon
By Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox. Originally published in The Herbarist 2009, a publication of The Herb Society of America....
Nov 1, 2024
TREES, PLEASE! Pines In Oakcrest Park, Encinitas, California
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Pines In Oakcrest Park Sometime in the last approximately 35 years some Torrey...
Nov 1, 2024
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Savoring Summer's Best—Growing Tomatoes All Winter
By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Savoring Summer's Best—Growing Tomatoes all Winter After spending the summer...
Nov 1, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: A Tomato Dish To Make For Thanksgiving Dinner
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. A Tomato Dish to Make for Thanksgiving Dinner I own a ©2001 cookbook by Diane...
Nov 1, 2024
SHARING SECRETS: Did You Put Up A Garden Structure?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. The current Sharing Secrets question… Did you put up a structure in your...
Nov 1, 2024
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