NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Some South African Amaryllids For San Diego & A Few Other Geophophytes
Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on August 14, 2023, at 6p at CBI in-person/6:30p Zoom for our next hybrid meeting with...
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September 2024
2023 Summer Jun-Aug Articles
- Aug 1, 2023
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Next Meeting August 7 - Tulipomania By Mike Dash
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! August 2023. Please join the SD Hort Book Club and read some great horticulturally pertinent...
- Aug 1, 2023
MEETING REPORT: Meet The Trees - Bonsai Appreciation Through Demystification With Kyle Icke
By Donna Mallen, for Let's Talk Plants! August 2023. Meet The Trees - Bonsai Appreciation Through Demystification In your first encounter...
- Aug 1, 2023
BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Acacias Of Southern Africa - Part 1
By Ida Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. Acacias of Southern Africa - Part 1 Acacias are the iconic trees of the semi-arid...
- Aug 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Paving Paradise
By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. “They took all the trees Put 'em in a tree museum And they charged all the people...
- Aug 1, 2023
PERMACULTURE: Five Great Tools For Gardeners
By Diane Kennedy, Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. 1. Mesh Netting Instead of Bird Netting This is a...
- Aug 1, 2023
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: If You Must Have Grass, Why Not Have Native Grass?
By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. If You Must Have Grass, Why Not Have Native Grass? American homeowners have had a...
- Aug 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Here Comes The Sun!
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk plants! August 2023. This month’s question: Here comes the sun … ... What is being helped or harmed...
- Aug 1, 2023
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Beware Of Puncturevine
By Susi Torre-Bueno, for Let’s Talk Plants! Originally published August 2015, No. 251, republished August 2023. I recently learned about...
- Aug 1, 2023
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Saving Frogs Lives And Making Apple Pie From Home-Grown Apples
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. Here is an addendum to July’s Garden Surroundings article about frogs. The other...
- Jul 1, 2023
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Meet The Trees - Bonsai Appreciation Through Demystification
Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on July 10, 2023, at 6p at CBI in-person/6:30p Zoom for our next hybrid meeting. Kyle...
- Jul 1, 2023
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Next Meeting July 3 - The Overstory By Richard Powers
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2023. Please join the SD Hort Book Club and read some great horticulturally pertinent books...
- Jul 1, 2023
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Charming Calochortus
By Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2023. I'm not exactly sure when I first became aware of Calochortus. Calochortus weedii - July...
- Jul 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Damper, Damper 10-4
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2023. Damper, Damper 10-4 Last time, we talked about trees and pruning a little bit and here...
- Jul 1, 2023
GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Six Tips For Planting And Growing Tomatoes
By Sommer Cartier, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2023. Six Tips for Planting and Growing Tomatoes Summer is here! And with it, plump juicy...
- Jul 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: What Tastes Good Growing In Your Garden?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2023. This month's question: What tastes good and grows in your garden, or you wish it...
- Jul 1, 2023
MEETING REPORT: Water Wisdom, Plants & Rebates With Debby Dunn
By Donna Mallen, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Water Wisdom, Plants and Rebates with Debby Dunn In the scant hour of time allotted to...
- Jul 1, 2023
SDHS MOST EDUCATIONAL GARDEN AWARDS: At The 2023 SD County Fair
By Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2023. The San Diego Horticultural Society is proud to have given two "Most Educational Garden"...
- Jul 1, 2023
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Medicinal Plants Archival Update
By Carl Price and Ellen Reardon, July 2023. This article first appeared in Let’s Talk Plants! April 2008, No. 163 and was published again...
- Jul 1, 2023
GARDEN SURROUNDINGS: Fun Surprises in the Garden
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2023. Fun Surprises in the Garden Here and there, I loved hearing frogs in the garden as...
- May 31, 2023
SD HORT BOOK CLUB: Next Meeting June 5 - The Plant Hunter By Cassandra Leah Quave
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2023. Please join the SD Hort Book Club and read some great horticulturally pertinent books...
- May 31, 2023
SPRING FLING At Poway Gardens On June 10th, 10a - 1p
By Farmer Roy, for Let's Talk Plants! June 2023. The members and guests of the San Diego Horticultural Society are cordially invited to...
- May 31, 2023
BOTANICAL ENCOUNTERS: Palms of the Okavango Delta
Words and pictures by Ida Rigby, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Palms of the Okavango Delta Two palms, the real fan palm, Hypnaena...
- May 31, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Forest Bathing or Shinrin-yoku
By Robin Y. Rivet, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Forest Bathing or Shinrin-yoku "Forest bathing" does not require soap or water....
- May 31, 2023
GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: Eat Your Native Garden, the Kumeyaay Way
By Susan Lewitt, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Eat Your Native Garden, the Kumeyaay Way California native plants are functional as...
- May 31, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: DIY Tools And Tricks
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. This month’s question… Do you have an item or tool or something that you made,...
- May 31, 2023
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Plant A Garden, Grow A Friendship
By Dave Ericson, June 2023, originally published in Let’s Talk Plants! June 2014, No. 237. Plant A Garden, Grow A Friendship A good...
- May 31, 2023
GARDEN SURROUNDNGS: Living Walls
By Francesca Filanc, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2023. Editor’s note: How timely is this article for those of us lucky attendees of the...
- May 15, 2023
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Water Wisdom, Plants & Rebates On June 12, ‘23
Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on June 12, 2023 at 6p at CBI in-person/6:30p Zoom for our next hybrid meeting. Water...
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