Next Meeting – August 16, 2025 – 1:30p -3p – Oasis RB Poisonous Plants and Beyond: What's Lurking in Your Landscape? with Dr. Megan...

SD HORT BOOK CLUB

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Rewilding The Kalahari - The Land

TREES, PLEASE! Your Nose Knows to Sense Scents

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: How About Investing In Hedge Fun, And Shady Screening Contenders For Privacy!

PERMACULTURE: Blue Oyster Mushrooms - A Powerhouse Worker

FROM THE MASTER GARDENERS: Climate Change And Our Gardens

Glorious Fabulous Summer

PLANT FORUM: July 2025 Meeting

GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Nighttime Temperatures Determine When Flowers Bloom

The newly reinstituted Plant Forum (to learn more, please read the Plant Forum article by Susi Torre-Bueno in this newsletter) will be...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2025. Have you heard how much fun the SD Hort Book Club is? It's amazing, and I'm not just...

Text and photos by Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2025. Moon gate in my home garden, June 2025, framing the white blooms of...

By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Photo credit: Lincoln National Forest Christmas Tree Permit in New Mexico -...

By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Photo by jwvein https://pixabay.com Common and Often Overlooked Gardening Mistakes...

By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Dry Swale in garden in San Diego from the SDHS garden tour of 2025. Photo by Susan...

By Susan Krzywicki, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Republished from Going Wild with Natives, Let’s Talk Plants! July 2015, No. 250....

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Hops grow on a broken wooden ladder. Photo credit: Rachel Cobb. Current question...

By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. PLANT FORUM For over two decades a meeting highlight was the Plant Forum , where a...

https://youtu.be/8_k03opXrNo See the fascinating presentation here: https://youtu.be/8_k03opXrNo About Bat Conservation International...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Salad with borage from the garden. Photo credit: Francesca Filanc. Borage, All...

Horizonline Pictures, Bat Conservation International. NOTE: This is a hybrid in-person meeting and in this instance the speaker will be...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2025. Have you heard how much fun the SD Hort Book Club is? It's amazing, and I'm not just...

By Jim Booman, reprinted from Facebook with permission, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2025. Yvonne Mao, San Diego Horticultural Society...

Words and pictures by Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Rewilding In Southern Africa - The Kalahari Dunes The Kalahari...

Please Welcome Our Two Newest Board Members – John Clements and Susi Torre-Bueno Great News! At the most recent board meeting on May 19,...

By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Plant Forum Returns to Monthly Meetings   From our first SD Hort meeting in 1994...

By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Close-up of the enormous Moreton Bay Fig – San Diego’s Balboa Park - SDNHM I t’s...

By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Beavertail Pricklypear in bloom. Photo courtesy of Calscape. San Diego is Not a...

By Lee Somerville, UCCE San Diego Master Gardener. This article first appeared in May 2024 in the “Garden Mastery” column of the Union...

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Crocus Flowers. Artist is bernswaelz. Provided by pixabay.com . This article is...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Wix stock photo. This month’s question: Do you have a favorite flower, plant or...

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. "If you build it, they will come." Inviting People to Enjoy the Garden There is a...