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Oct 31, 2024
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: November 16 -"Preserve Today, Relish Tomorrow" UCCE of San Diego Introduces UC Master Food Preservers Of San Diego County.
Unless otherwise stated, we meet the third Saturday of the month at 1:30p at San Diego Oasis in Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center...


Oct 31, 2024
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: November 4, 4:30p/5p, The Garden Against Time By Olivia Laing
By Karen England, SD Hort Book Club head muckety-muck, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing...


Oct 31, 2024
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS - Front Garden Refresh
Words and pictures by Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. In 1998, when we moved into our 1939 Spanish Colonial Revival...


Oct 31, 2024
LUNAR GARDENING: Gardening By The Moon
By Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox. Originally published in The Herbarist 2009, a publication of The Herb Society of America....

Oct 31, 2024
TREES, PLEASE! Pines In Oakcrest Park, Encinitas, California
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Pines In Oakcrest Park Sometime in the last approximately 35 years some Torrey...


Oct 31, 2024
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Savoring Summer's Best—Growing Tomatoes All Winter
By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Savoring Summer's Best—Growing Tomatoes all Winter After spending the summer...

Oct 31, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: A Tomato Dish To Make For Thanksgiving Dinner
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. A Tomato Dish to Make for Thanksgiving Dinner I own a ©2001 cookbook by Diane...


Oct 31, 2024
SHARING SECRETS: Did You Put Up A Garden Structure?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. The current Sharing Secrets question… Did you put up a structure in your...

Oct 31, 2024
HERITAGE HAUNTS: Book Review "Hardy Californians: A Woman’s Life With Native Plants" By Lester Rowntree
Reviewed by Caroline McCullagh, for Let's Talk Plants! Originally published in October 2010, republished November 2024. Book Review:...


Oct 31, 2024
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Mexican Sage And Japanese Anemones In The Garden
Words, artwork and photos by Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. Mexican Sage and Japanese Anemones in the Garden...

Oct 31, 2024
APLD SD WORKSHOP INVITATION: Principles of Japanese Garden Design and Composition
By Jackie Seidman, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. Principles of Japanese Garden Design and Composition Workshop This extremely...


Oct 31, 2024
FREE CLASSES: WaterSmart Landscape Classes November 2, 2024, 10am - 1:30pm, Vista Irrigation District,1391 Engineer Street, Vista 92081
By Debby Dunn, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. FREE WaterSmart Landscape Classes Learn How To: Remove Your Grass & Plant a...


Oct 31, 2024
CGCI 2025 FLOWER SHOW SCHOOL: Course 1 February 27, 28 & March 1, 2025, Templars Hall, Old Poway Park Registration Open Now...
Submitted by Barbara Weiler, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2024. California Garden Clubs and the Southwestern Judges Council are...


Sep 30, 2024
NEXT MEETING: Growing Proteas With Daniel MacDonald Of Mt Woodson Flora, Oct. 19, Oasis RB In-person Only
(NOTE: This is Not a hybrid meeting, there will be NO Zoom this time, but the meeting might be recorded for our YouTube channel if all...

Sep 30, 2024
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: October 7, 4:30p/5p, What We Sow By Jennifer Jewell
By Karen England, SD Hort Book Club head muckety-muck, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2024. What We Sow by Jennifer Jewell October 7,...


Sep 30, 2024
BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Kalahari Desert Shrubs
Words and pictures by Ida K. Rigby, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2024. Kalahari Desert Shrubs So far, most of our botanical encounters...


Sep 30, 2024
THYME TRAVELER: Day Trip To The Baker Creek Heirloom Expo
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Day Trip to the Baker Creek Heirloom Expo in Ventura, CA During the summer I found...

Sep 30, 2024
PERMACULTURE: Its Twelve Principles
By Mary ‘Klibs’ Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Permaculture's Twelve Principles Bill Molison, the father of Permaculture,...


Sep 30, 2024
NEW TREASURER NEEDED: Get A Board Application Online - Want a little more info? Read On...
By the SD Hort Board of Directors, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2024. Contact Ray at treasurer@sdhs.org with questions or to volunteer....


Sep 30, 2024
SEPTEMBER MEETING REPORT: Creative Rainwater Capture In The Residential Garden With Brad Lefkowits Of Waves Landscape Design
https://youtu.be/29DJOH0Hff8 The meeting had it all! Brad gave a fantastic presentation with lots of members that attended in-person and...


Sep 30, 2024
SAN DIEGO BOTANIC GARDEN: Lightscape Returns For 2024 November 15 - January 5
Another dazzling year of Lightscape is around the corner! Now in its third year, the spectacular showcase will return to Encinitas from...


Sep 30, 2024

Sep 30, 2024
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Mind Your Elder(berries) And Enjoy The CNPS Fall Plant Sale, Oct 19, At Its New Location - Sikes Adobe Farmstead!
By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Mind Your Elder(berries) and Enjoy the CNPS Fall Plant Sale, Oct 19, at its New...


Sep 30, 2024
SHARING SECRETS: Old Friend Plants
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Current question - Are there any “Old Friend Plants” that seemed finished but...


Sep 30, 2024
HERITAGE HAUNTS: Berry Good Plants For The Garden
"From the archives" is edited by Cathy Tylka for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Article by Richard Frost, originally published in the...


Sep 30, 2024
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Fig Trees And Passion Fruit In The Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Fig Trees and Passion Fruit in the Garden We are full into autumn. October is...


Aug 31, 2024
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Creative Rainwater Capture In The Residential Garden With Brad Lefkowits - Waves Landscape Design September 21, Oasis, RB
On September 21, 2024, at 1:30p - 3p in Rancho Bernardo at San Diego Oasis Please join us to hear Brad Lefkowits as he presents Creative...


Aug 31, 2024
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating By Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Zoom September 2, 4:30p/5p On Zoom
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! September 2024. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating By Elisabeth Tova Bailey, September 2,...


Aug 31, 2024
Puget Sound Garden Fling 2024
By Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! September 2024. "What is The Fling? It sounds interesting," I'm glad you asked. Since 2008, The...


Aug 31, 2024
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Perennial Peppers In San Diego - How To Cultivate Year-Round Heat
By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Perennial Peppers in San Diego - How to Cultivate Year-Round Heat San Diego’s...


Aug 31, 2024
TREES, PLEASE! Pruning Trees
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Pruning Trees All things being equal, an unpruned tree will always grow faster than...


Aug 31, 2024
THE BUG MAN: A New Eucalyptus Beetle In San Diego County
By Eric Middleton PhD, IPM Advisor, University of California Statewide IPM Program and Cooperative Extension, San Diego, Orange, and Los...

Aug 31, 2024
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Start Planning For CNPS Native Plant Sale With Some Keystone Plant Species
By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Start Planning for CNPS Native Plant Sale with Some Keystone Plant Species Only...


Aug 31, 2024
NEW TREASURER NEEDED: Get A Board Application Online - Want a little more info? Read On...
By the SD Hort Board of Directors, for Let's Talk Plants! August 2024. Contact Ray at treasurer@sdhs.org with questions or to volunteer....


Aug 31, 2024
SHARING SECRETS: Wanted Or Unwanted? What Or Who Is Living In Your Garden?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Question for Sharing Secrets column for this month: Who, what, and/or why...

Aug 31, 2024
HAVE YOU DREAMED OF BECOMING A MASTER GARDENER? Applications Open Now Through September 30, 2024
By Dominick Flume, for Let's Talk Plants! August 2024. The next class for the Master Gardener Association of San Diego County program...


Aug 31, 2024
AUGUST 2024 MEETING REPORT: SDHS 30th Anniversary Celebration & Botanical Building & Gardens Update w/ Jackie Higgins & Phillip Sammuli, VPs of Forever Balboa Park
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! September 2024. The August 2024 meeting presentation is available for viewing on our YouTube...

Aug 31, 2024
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Butterflies In The Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Butterflies in the Garden This time of year the garden is a flutter with...
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