If you are looking to dive into plants not just native to California, but native to San Diego to give your garden a truly local character, t

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Chelsea Garden Show has been cancelled. How tired we all are of reading those words about our favori

I am never without my smartphone because it is how I communicate with my invalid mother who lives with me. She texts me when she needs somet

Even though our San Diego Horticultural Society's big garden tour of Poway was cancelled this year that does not negate all the hard work th

Permaculture promotes that landscaping be 99% design and 1% labor, and if you are working too hard your design is wrong. Yet all of us are g

Editor's note: Since there was no meeting in April 2020 to report about to the membership, this edition of the From The Archives column feat

I feel so fortunate to have a garden at this time. Just sitting in the sun and admiring the Spring flowers cheers me up. I try not to think

Amidst the recent pandemic, the motivators behind the patriotic “victory gardens” of WWI and WWII are resurging. Short supply of staple foo

Although April showers may offer some respite, most yard trees will soon rely solely on you for a drink. Unfortunately, that dependence ofte

The editor of this column wandered into her garden after the recent rains and was immediately confronted by several enormous snails, also ap

Since our garden and meetings are canceled for the time being, we would like to keep you involved in our Horticultural Community.

Even though the garden tour was canceled and our next few meetings are canceled, gardening has NOT been canceled. Get out there!

Oh, Ms. Sessions, why do we all love thee? Your insights, quips, instruction are informed and true. You reach us on so many levels. Reading

A few months ago, we wrote an essay on “Plants that Heal” (*Current Editor’s note: see below). Although both this and the earlier narrative

When I was a teenager, I collected a whole bunch of very small jumping spiders into small, clear, plastic containers and watched them for ho

I had a phone conversation last week with my cousin, the owner/operator of Sunshine Gardens in Encinitas about his invalid wife and my inval

The page, dubbed "Plant life that exists only on April 1st," has 22 "species," i.e. pranks, that date from 1900 through 2019 and are some of

CANCELLED! March 16th, 2020

In July and August of 2004, December of '07 and June and July of '08 I traveled to Ireland for weeks at a time each trip, specifically to st

http://www.sdfloral.org/kos-book.htm Got Green? & TOMATOMANIA! at the San Diego Botanic Garden Saturday, April 4 10 am – 4 pm ~...

When you think about planting your garden, consider California native plants; they can be a perfect fit! Native plants need minimal water,

Recently past Horticulturist of the Year 2017, Debra Lee Baldwin visited with SDHS past-president Jim Bishop, who also is the current Hortic

This article first appeared in Let’s Talk Plants! March 2008, No. 162. While editing this newsletter in 2020, editor Karen England got hungr

For many of us, weeds can be a garden scourge. You step away from the garden only to return to a fortress of dandelions, stinging nettle and

Do you have any general gardening tips for 2020 that might not fit into any particular category, but that you have learned from your own exp

In the world of Urban Forestry one of the concepts we consider is the safe useful life expectancy (SULE) of a tree. There are many component

As I mentioned in my January article, this past September I joined a plant expedition tour to Peru. It was a different type of tour for me.