By Lee Somerville, UCCE San Diego Master Gardener. This article first appeared in May 2024 in the “Garden Mastery” column of the Union...

By Joan Herskowitz, UCCE Master Gardener of San Diego County for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2025. Originally published in the July/August...

This article first appeared in the March/April 2023 edition of California Garden Magazine . By Jay Davis, for Let’s Talk Plants! February...

By Greg Alder, UC Master Gardener of San Diego County, originally printed in The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 2024, reprinted with...

Hundreds of Gardener-grown Plants Available Plus Live Demonstrations San Diego County Master Gardeners Host Plant Sale at Balboa Park San...

By Michael Harrelson, used with permission in Let’s Talk Plants! June 2022. Lemonadeberry Shrub For San Diego gardeners the Lemonadeberry...

By Master Gardener Michael Harrelson, reprinted here with permission in Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. Pink Muhly Grass or Pink Hair...

By Deanna Chandra, first published by the Master Gardener Association of San Diego County in the San Diego Union Tribune, November 2021...

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

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 Michael Harrelson. April showers bring May flowers … and weeds, lots of weeds. A weed is defined by the Weed Science Society of...

By Francie Murphy and Chris McDonald. As gardeners in San Diego move to replace their thirsty lawns and water-loving plants, they may...

Wondering what plants make the most sense for San Diego gardens this year? Want to grow magnificent roses and stunning succulents in the sam

For the past two years, the UCCE San Diego Master Gardener Program, through its Reminiscence Gardening (RG) public outreach program, has par

In Southern California there are two small remnants of “relic pine forests” that precede the Glacial Period.  Trees in these forests were we