2023-24 Winter Dec-Feb | SDHS Newsletter

2023-24 Winter Dec-Feb Articles

Feb 1

NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Making Gardening Accessible To All Ages & Abilities With Stephen Cantu On Saturday February 10, 2024, 1:30p At San Diego Oasis In Rancho Bernardo

"Making Gardening Accessible to All Ages and Abilities," San Diego Oasis center in Rancho Bernardo (17170 Bernardo Center Drive) on...

Feb 1

SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Great Oak Visit Report & Brave The Wild River By Melissa L. Sevigny Discussion On February 5, 2024 On Zoom

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2024. Join us on February 5, 2024, at 4:30p/5p on Zoom to discuss the book Brave the...

Feb 1

SPRING GARDEN TOUR: Sustainable Beauty - Gardens For All Life - Coming To North Coastal San Diego County On April 13, 2024

Mark your calendars! For the second year in a row the San Diego Horticultural Society is partnering with the Association of Professional...

Feb 1

MEETING REPORT: New Year, New Venue, New Day, New Time, New HOY! Jeff Moore, Dudleyas, Succulent Cupcakes And More At San Diego Oasis In Rancho Bernardo

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2024. New Year, New Venue, New Day, New Time, New HOY! With over 125 SD Hort members...

Feb 1

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: The Argan Tree

By Ida K. Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. The Argan Tree Let’s begin with a few photos to transport ourselves to Morocco....

Feb 1

TREES, PLEASE! California Rare Fruit Growers

By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. California Rare Fruit Growers I confess. I developed this “Trees, please!”...

Feb 1

PERMACULTURE: Repurposing Household Water

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. Repurposing Household Water The second most important element on Earth is...

Feb 1

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: True Natives Verses Cultivars, Which Is Best?

By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. Reserve these dates in your calendar for a wonderful experience! Image from CNPS...

Feb 1

SHARING SECRETS: The Rain To The Wind Said, ‘You Push And I'll Pelt.'

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. This month’s question - When and if the rain comes, what is your plan of...

Feb 1

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Amazingly Effective Ant Trap

By Ava Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. Originally published February 2011, No. 197. Amazingly Effective Ant Trap Ants...

Feb 1

GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Living And Gardening In A Mediterranean Climate

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. Living and Gardening in a Mediterranean Climate We are lucky and unique that...

Jan 1

NEXT MEETING: 2024 Horticulturist Of The Year, Jeff Moore Of Solana Succulents, January 13, 2024, 1:30pm, In Rancho Bernardo At San Diego Oasis

Congratulations to author Jeff Moore of Solana Succulents, in Solana Beach, who has been named the San Diego Horticultural Society's...

Jan 1

WE HAVE A NEW MEETING PLACE, DAY & TIME! 2nd Saturdays Of The Month, 1:30 pm to 3 pm, At Oasis In Rancho Bernardo.

By Karen England, on behalf of the SDHS Board for Let's Talk Plants! January 2024. This state-of-the-art meeting facility is easy to...

Jan 1

SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Announcing The Next Three Books To Read For February, March And April 2024.

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2024. Please join the SD Hort Book Club and read some great horticulturally imbued books...

Jan 1

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Plantas de Patagonia

By Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2024. In December, Scott Borden, eight friends and I visited Patagonia on a Natural Habitat...

Jan 1

TREES, PLEASE! COE Tree ID Five Four Six Four

By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. COE Tree ID Five Four Six Four In the City of Encinitas (COE) most of the city owned...

Jan 1

FROM THE PALOMAR DISTRICT: New Year Of Gardening, Learning And Friendship

By Sharon Tooley, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. Hello everyone and welcome to a new year of gardening, learning and friendship....

Jan 1

GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Winter Garden Harvesting Tips

By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/close-up-view-basket-full-onion-with-purple-ca...

Jan 1

COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Good Meals And How To Prepare Them

By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. Good Meals and How to Prepare Them In 1997 at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in...

Jan 1

ReWILD: Fascinating Native Bees

By Sharon Reeve, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2024. Melissodes species on Eriogonum fasciculatum. Photo credit: Sharon Reeve....

Jan 1

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Yarrow - The 2024 Herb Of The Year™

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2024. Excerpted from Karen's contributions to the International Herb Association's...

Jan 1

SHARING SECRETS: Do The Plants Growing In Your Garden Remind You Of Wonderful People?

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. Question for this month… … Hope you all are enjoying happy holidays with...

Jan 1

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Herbs And Spices – A Family Affair

By Carl Price and Ellen Reardon, first published in Let’s Talk Plants! January 2009, No. 172. Republished January 2024. Herb and Spices:...

Jan 1

GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: New Year, Fresh Start

By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. New Year, Fresh Start Gosh, already it is January 2024! How time flies. The new...

Dec 1, 2023

REMINDER: No December Meeting

Just to remind everyone, there will be no general meeting in December. Meetings will resume in the new year. . .

Dec 1, 2023

NEXT MEETING: 2024 Horticulturist Of The Year, Jeff Moore Of Solana Succulents, Jan. 13, 1:30p in RB

Congratulations to author Jeff Moore of Solana Succulents, who has been named the San Diego Horticultural Society's Horticulturist of the...

Dec 1, 2023

SD HORT BOOK CLUB: December 4 – The Last Garden In England By Julia Kelly

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2023. Please join the SD Hort Book Club and read some great horticulturally imbued...

Dec 1, 2023

WE HAVE A NEW MEETING PLACE, DAY & TIME! 2nd Saturdays, 1:30 to 3p, At Oasis In Rancho Bernardo.

By Karen England, on behalf of the SDHS Board for Let's Talk Plants! December 2023. This state-of-the-art meeting facility is easy to...

Dec 1, 2023

BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech

Words and pictures by Ida K. Rigby unless otherwise noted, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2023. Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech Because our...

Dec 1, 2023

ReWILD: Do You Know Bougainvillea 'Torch Glow'?

By Sharon Reeve, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2023. Do you know Bougainvillea 'Torch Glow'? It is a cool plant! This is unlike any...

Dec 1, 2023

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Homegrown National Parks

By Susan Lewitt, for Let's Talk plants! December 2023. Homegrown National Parks If you are transitioning to or have a native landscape,...

Dec 1, 2023

TREES, PLEASE! Sharing Mark Twain’s Favorite Fruit

By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2023. Sharing Mark Twain’s Favorite Fruit Holiday season is upon us. Have you been a...

Dec 1, 2023

CHRISTMAS TREES, PLEASE! Part 1 - Are You A Real Tree Or Fake Tree Person? It's Living Trees For Me!

By John Clements, for Let’s Talk Plants! Reprinted with permission from a November 25, 2023, Facebook post appearing on San Diego...

Dec 1, 2023

CHRISTMAS TREES, PLEASE! Part 2 - San Diego County Cut-Your-Own Tradition

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2023. My family, mom, dad, grandma, and myself, moved to Encinitas in 1970 when I was...

Dec 1, 2023

SHARING SECRETS: Late Bloomers

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2023. Current Question: What is blooming in your garden now, did it just get...

Dec 1, 2023

GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Planting A Madrone

By Francesca Filanc, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2023. Planting a Madrone, Arbutus menziesii This autumn I had the outside of my...