May 2, 2020GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: May Wildflowers in San DiegoIf 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
May 1, 2020MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Malvern Spring Festival & Chelsea Garden Show 2019Due 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
May 1, 2020EDITOR’S LETTER: Smartphone Gardening - There’s an App for That! 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
May 1, 2020MEET THE SDHS BOARD: John Beaudry, Spring Garden Tour ChairmanEven 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
May 1, 2020FALLBROOK FOOD FOREST: Permaculture Design for Every YardPermaculture 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
May 1, 2020APRIL MEETING REPORT is FROM THE ARCHIVES: Can a Massage Oil Help Prevent Global Warming?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
May 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: What’s the good news from your garden? 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
May 1, 2020GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Fast Growing, High Yielding, Money Saving CropsAmidst the recent pandemic, the motivators behind the patriotic “victory gardens” of WWI and WWII are resurging. Short supply of staple foo
Apr 1, 2020TREES, PLEASE: Are Your Trees Drinking Enough? Calculate…Although April showers may offer some respite, most yard trees will soon rely solely on you for a drink. Unfortunately, that dependence ofte
Apr 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Snails and SlugsThe editor of this column wandered into her garden after the recent rains and was immediately confronted by several enormous snails, also ap
Apr 1, 2020PHOTO CONTEST: Have You Entered?Since our garden and meetings are canceled for the time being, we would like to keep you involved in our Horticultural Community.
Apr 1, 2020MEETING REPORT: Gardening Has NOT Been CanceledEven though the garden tour was canceled and our next few meetings are canceled, gardening has NOT been canceled. Get out there!
Apr 1, 2020BOOK REVIEW: The Complete Writings of Kate Sessions in California Garden, 1909-1939 New EditionOh, Ms. Sessions, why do we all love thee? Your insights, quips, instruction are informed and true. You reach us on so many levels. Reading
Apr 1, 2020FROM THE ARCHIVES: Medicinal PlantsA few months ago, we wrote an essay on “Plants that Heal” (*Current Editor’s note: see below). Although both this and the earlier narrative
Apr 1, 2020THE BUG MAN: Jumping Spiders - One of the Good GuysWhen I was a teenager, I collected a whole bunch of very small jumping spiders into small, clear, plastic containers and watched them for ho
Apr 1, 2020EDITOR'S LETTER: Gardening Boom Comes From COVID-19I had a phone conversation last week with my cousin, the owner/operator of Sunshine Gardens in Encinitas about his invalid wife and my inval
Apr 1, 2020APRIL FOOL'S DAY BOTANY: Echinocereus dahliaeflorusThe 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
Mar 1, 2020EDITOR'S LETTER: "Irish Peony"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
Mar 1, 2020MEETING REPORT & NEWS: http://www.sdfloral.org/kos-book.htm Got Green? & TOMATOMANIA! at the San Diego Botanic Garden Saturday, April 4 10 am – 4 pm ~...
Mar 1, 2020GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: "The Artful California Native Gardens of East County" CNPS-SD TourWhen you think about planting your garden, consider California native plants; they can be a perfect fit! Native plants need minimal water,
Mar 1, 2020GUEST COLUMN: SDHS Horticulturist of the Year 2017, Debra Lee Baldwin, visits HOY '19, Jim Bishop.Recently past Horticulturist of the Year 2017, Debra Lee Baldwin visited with SDHS past-president Jim Bishop, who also is the current Hortic
Mar 1, 2020FROM THE ARCHIVES: Garden Gourmet - Behold The Humble PotatoThis article first appeared in Let’s Talk Plants! March 2008, No. 162. While editing this newsletter in 2020, editor Karen England got hungr
Mar 1, 2020GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Edible Weeds in the GardenFor 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
Mar 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: General Gardening TipsDo 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
Mar 1, 2020TREES, PLEASE! Dead as a DoornailIn 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
Mar 1, 2020MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Machu PicchuAs 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.