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...
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December 2023
Sharing Secrets
- Nov 1
SHARING SECRETS: Inspiring Garden Visits Worth Copying At Home
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2023. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” - Charles Caleb Colton, 1820...
- Sep 30
SHARING SECRETS: Bulbs For San Diego
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2023. This month’s question: What bulbs have you found naturalize well in your San...
- Aug 31
SHARING SECRETS: We’re Having A Heat Wave…
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2023. This month’s question - We’re having a heat wave... Can you hear me...
- Jul 31
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...
- Jun 30
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...
- May 31
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,...
- Apr 30
SHARING SECRETS: Blue Skies Mean Gardens In Bloom
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! May 2023. Current question: The sky is blue, the trees are full and many of the items in...
- Mar 1
SHARING SECRETS: Garden Hearts And Flowers
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2023. This Month’s Question: In the season of hearts, sweethearts, and all things...
- Feb 1
SHARING SECRETS: Rain Or Shine, What’s Your Plan?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2023. This month’s question: If we have rain, what do plan to do in your garden?...
- Jan 1
SHARING SECRETS: What’s Your Glorious Secret?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2023. This month's question: What’s your secret… ... December in San Diego can be...
- Dec 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Table Delights From Our Gardens
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2022. This month's question: Do you grow anything that you use as a November table...
- Oct 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Thing To Do In Your Fall Garden
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2022. This month’s question . . . What is your favorite thing to do in your Garden...
- Sep 30, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Beat The Heat!
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2022. This month’s question: It’s really warm in Southern California right now....
- Aug 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Done Any Water Saving Recently?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2022. This month’s Question: We need water for our plants and flowers. However,...
- Jul 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Too Much Of A Good Thing…
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2022. “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” - Mae West This month’s Question:...
- Jun 30, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: What Do You Grow That You Love To Eat & Share?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2022. This month’s question – What do you plant in your garden that you love to eat...
- May 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Nature Walk
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2022. This month’s question: What is your favorite nature walk? Is it in San Diego...
- Apr 30, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Garden Thing To Do
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2022. Question… … What is your favorite thing to do in your garden now that it's...
- Apr 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Horticultural Author Or Book
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. This Month’s Question: Do you have a favorite horticultural author or is there...
- Mar 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Winter Blues… Do You Have Any?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. This month's question: Winter Blues … Do you have any? Are they blue flowers or...
- Feb 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: ...Of The Traveling Plants
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. This Month's Question: What plants did you add to your gardens after...
- Jan 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Plants You Remember
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Current question: What plant or plants do you remember from your...
- Dec 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Changed Your Gardening Style? Besides Water Shortage, Why?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. This month's question: Has anything other than the water shortage led you to...
- Oct 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Green With Envy?
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...
- Sep 30, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Making Changes Due To Looming Water Issues?
Edited by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants!, October 2021. Thank you, Ida Rigby, for these wonderful questions… Because we have water...
- Aug 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: The Dog Days of Summer…
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...
- Jul 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: What's Going Crazy In Your Garden?
Edited by Cathy Tylka. Question of the month … Is your corn growing as high as an Elephant's Eye? Ok, so maybe, not corn. Do you have...
- Jul 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Gardens, Parks and Riparian Areas To Visit
Edited by Cathy Tylka. Here’s the question of the month… Do you have a favorite garden, park or riparian area that you visit? Sometimes,...
- May 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Insects
Edited by Cathy Tylka. This Month's Question: “What’s your favorite insect or arachnoid? Does it fly, does it crawl, does it pollinate?...
- Apr 30, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Spring Has Sprung
Edited by Cathy Tylka. Question: Spring has Sprung! How is your place doing? My plants are flowering like crazy, and some never bloomed...
- Apr 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Spring Scene in the Garden
Edited by Cathy Tylka. Do you have bunnies, chickees or ducklings in your Garden? Yes, no, maybe so . . . well, what is on your Spring...
- Mar 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Signatures of Garden Love
February is the month for Valentines, hearts and flowers… Do you have any signatures of love in your garden and how can you share them?
- Feb 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Oops! What Did You Learn?
What did you learn from something that went wrong in your garden?
- Jan 2, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Has The Weather Got Your Plants Down?
Has the weather got your plants down . . . if yes, what are you doing about it? Weather includes heat, wind, overcast days, too much sun, d
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