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February 2025
2023-24 Winter Dec-Feb Articles

Feb 1, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
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