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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
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Herbal Succulents - Aloe Vera Blossom Sauté
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. Vista, California. Sunset through Aloe vera blossoms. Flowers destined for tacos! A...
May 1, 2022
ABRAXAS HIGH SCHOOL: Plant Sale Fundraiser Saturday May 7, Poway
Abraxas Garden Abraxas High School in Poway was one of the eight great stops on the SDHS Peaks & Valleys Garden Tour in March 2022. And...
May 1, 2022
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The World’s Most Abundant Protein
By Carl Price and Ellen Reardon, originally published in Let’s Talk Plants! May 2008, Issue No. 164. Reprinted May 2022. Springtime is...
May 1, 2022
APRIL 2022 MEETING REPORT: How to Grow Epicactus & Help Them Bloom
Epiphyllum Vogelii.jpg × Disophyllum 'Vogelii' (Probably not the same 'Vogelii' as published in Blühende Kakteen or Iconographia...
May 1, 2022
PEAKS & VALLEYS POWAY GARDEN TOUR 2022 REPORT: Part 1 - Artist's In The Gardens
Part 1 Submitted by Barbara Raub, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. Part 2 Coming next month. Here is the beautiful art created during the...
May 1, 2022
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Four Ways to Beat the Summer Heat
By Sommer Cartier, for Let's Talk Plants! May 2022. If you’ve ever cared for a garden during the late summer months in San Diego, you...
May 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE! Tiki Carved Trees
By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! May 2022. Almost 100 years ago the tiki culture became popular in the United States. One of the...
May 1, 2022
NEXT MEETING: May 2022 In-person Meetings Resume at Congregation Beth Israel!
Rebecca Sweet is a garden designer with her design firm 'Harmony In The Garden', located in Northern California. Her gardens have been...
May 1, 2022
GUEST COLUMN: Super-Easy Lazy Composting
By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. I've tried many composting methods over many years of gardening, but in late 2021 I...
May 1, 2022
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Lady Banks Roses
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. Lady Banks Rose has been grown for 2,000 years in gardens in China. It has no...
May 1, 2022
NEXT MEETING: May 2022 In-person Meetings Resume at Congregation Beth Israel!
Rebecca Sweet is a garden designer with her design firm 'Harmony In The Garden', located in Northern California. Her gardens have been...
Apr 12, 2022
NEXT MEETING: 04/11/22 - How to Grow Epicactus & Help Them Bloom
With Gretchen Ward. Zoom Only. Photo credit: Gretchen Ward. Join the SDHS on April 11, 2022, at 6 pm on ZOOM only for the General Meeting...
Apr 1, 2022
PRESIDENT’S LETTER: Oh, How I Love An April Fool!
By Gosh and by Golly. (Actually, by Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022) “April 1. This is the day upon which we are...
Apr 1, 2022
MARCH MEETING & POWAY GARDEN TOUR REPORTS: Coming In May
March 2022 was crazy busy for the San Diego Horticultural Society and in order to report on all the wonderful things that happened; the...
Apr 1, 2022
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: First Monday Of Every Month On Zoom At 5pm
You are invited to join the SD Hort Book Club – everyone welcome. SDHBC meets the first Monday of every month on Zoom at 4:30pm for Happy...
Apr 1, 2022
BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: New Bi-monthly Column By Ida Rigby
By Ida K. Rigby for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. We must begin with this column’s origin story. Our SDHS Book Club read Jonathan...
Apr 1, 2022
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