Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on December 13, 2021 at 6pm on Zoom for Chuck McClung's EASY GUIDE TO HAPPY REBLOOMING...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on Monday, November 8, 2021 at 6...

"Where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind!" Have you ever wondered about your president who just showed up in the...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Have you heard how much fun the SD Hort Book Club is? It's amazing, and I'm not...

By Donna Mallen, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Among the new frontiers of scientific research and discovery in recent history is...

By Jim Bishop for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. In a previous article in 2018, Road to Marrakech, I told the story of how dates are...

By Sommer Cartier, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Growing potatoes in a bag is a fun and resourceful way to produce a crop of...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. As you read through this month's newsletter articles from Jim Bishop and Sommer...

By James A. Bethke, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. My first job in the University of California Riverside (UCR) Department of...

By Gretchen Ward, reprinted here with permission, for Let's Talk Plants! November, 2021. Epiphyllum hybrid ‘Going Bananas.' The...

By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Right tree, right place. This advice is really a warning that we should plan for the...

By board member Roy Wilburn, known as Farmer Roy, and president Karen England for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Now that all 15 of...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. This month's question: Have you ever had garden envy, plant envy, flower envy...

By Walter Andersen, first published in Let's Talk Plants! November 2009, No. 182. [2009 Editor’s note: As we go to press I got a series...

Featuring Greg Rubin and Leo Hernandez California’s Own Native Landscape Design November 13th, 2021, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Bird Park at 28th...

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By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Several years ago, a landscape designer friend of mine in the Olivenhain Garden...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. The San Diego Horticultural Society board has had some changes recently that will...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6...

On September 13, 2021, at 6 pm on Zoom, garden designer and builder, Jeffrey Bale gave a chronological history of his inspiring travels...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. Have you heard how much fun the SD Hort Book Club is? It's amazing, and I'm not...

By board member Roy Wilburn and president Karen England for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. Now that all 15 of the chosen grant...

By Diane Kennedy for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. One inch of rain falling on one acre in an hour is 27,154 gallons of pure, free,...

By Robin Y Rivet, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. October is prime tree planting time. Suppose you’d like an evergreen with...

By Pat Welsh, first published in Let's Talk Plants! October 2008, No. 169. Have you noticed how few bees are about this season? Have you...

By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. I receive so much joy by planting flowers, plants and vines that attract...

By Susan Lewitt for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. Red Bush Monkey Flower, Diplacus puniceus aka Mimulus aurantiacus var. puniceus, has...

By Sharon Tooley, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. As we approach the fall season most of the Palomar District Garden Clubs are...

By Richard Frost, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2021. The Guatemalan dragon fruit, S. guatemalensis, harvest from a plant in the SE...

Edited by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants!, October 2021. Thank you, Ida Rigby, for these wonderful questions… Because we have water...

Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6 pm (pst) on Zoom for a presentation by Robin Kobaly...

Mark your calendars! The 2022 San Diego Horticultural Society Garden Tour of beautiful Poway, California is on Saturday March 26th. And...

September 13, 6 pm (pst) on Zoom - Jeffrey Bale, with a chronological history of this self-taught stone Mason’s incredible work as a...

By Donna Mallen for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. Note from newsletter editor-in-chief, Karen England to the membership: Please...

By Tim Clancy for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. Tree Adoption Process Thank you for your interest in adopting a rescue tree from the...

By Jim Bishop for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. This past April, I was fortunate to do a long-awaited return visit to the UC Santa...

By Pat Pawlowski, September 2021. First published in Let's Talk Plants! September 2016, No. 264. Male lesser goldfinch. Carduelis...

Edited by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. Question of the month - The Dog Days of Summer… 1. What are you doing to...

By Sommer Cartier for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. When purchasing seeds, it’s important to consider the varieties you’re choosing...

By Jodi Bay. This article first appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune, January 9, 2021, and is reprinted by permission in Let's Talk...

By Karen England for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. With thanks to https://www.gloryofthesnow.com/carrot-puns/ for the punny title of...

By Kaye Wren for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. There is a World Carrot Museum. You are welcome. http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/index....

By Karen England for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. As I told the SD Hort Book club members recently in a book club newsletter - "My...

By Francesca Filanc for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. The first time I was taught how to make tussie-mussies, also spelled tussy...

On June 2nd, 1898 American humorist Mark Twain was quoted as follows: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” If trees could talk the