May 1SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Garden Thing To DoEdited 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 1SHARING 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 1SHARING 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 2SHARING SECRETS: ...Of The Traveling PlantsEdited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. This Month's Question: What plants did you add to your gardens after...
Jan 1SHARING SECRETS: Plants You RememberEdited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Current question: What plant or plants do you remember from your...
Dec 1, 2021SHARING 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...
Nov 1, 2021SHARING 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...
Oct 1, 2021SHARING 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...
Sep 1, 2021SHARING 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...
Aug 1, 2021SHARING 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, 2021SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Gardens, Parks and Riparian Areas To VisitEdited by Cathy Tylka. Here’s the question of the month… Do you have a favorite garden, park or riparian area that you visit? Sometimes,...
Jun 1, 2021SHARING SECRETS: Favorite InsectsEdited by Cathy Tylka. This Month's Question: “What’s your favorite insect or arachnoid? Does it fly, does it crawl, does it pollinate?...
May 1, 2021SHARING SECRETS: Spring Has SprungEdited by Cathy Tylka. Question: Spring has Sprung! How is your place doing? My plants are flowering like crazy, and some never bloomed...
Apr 1, 2021SHARING SECRETS: Spring Scene in the GardenEdited 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, 2021SHARING 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, 2021SHARING SECRETS: Oops! What Did You Learn?What did you learn from something that went wrong in your garden?
Jan 3, 2021SHARING 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
Dec 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Decorate Your Garden For December?What do you do to make your garden ready for Christmas, Hanukkah or the Winter Solstice? Or, do you use items from your garden for these
Nov 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Watering as the Sun Goes Down...What do you do when you’re watering as the sun goes down? A friend of mine called it beer watering, I say it is wine watering … anything
Oct 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: SDHS Facebook Page & Group Posts!While the new Sharing Secrets Editor, Cathy Tylka, gets settled into her new role, you can read the many Sharing Secrets Columns of the past
Sep 1, 2020FROM THE ARCHIVES: Sharing SecretsWhile the new editor of the Sharing Secrets column gets trained by the retiring editor in the ins and outs of the job, you can still enjoy l
Aug 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Water FeaturesThe sound of splashing water is especially refreshing on these hot summer days. Do you have a favorite water feature in your garden?
Jul 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Using Household Items in the GardenHow do you use household items in an unconventional way in the garden? For example, a friend of mine uses a sifter to spread diatomaceous e
Jun 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Garden Structures GaloreSharing Secrets Editor Needed - Many thanks to Tina Ivany for her great work editing this column. Tina is "stepping down" from this position
May 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: What’s the good news from your garden? I feel so fortunate to have a garden at this time. Just sitting in the sun and admiring the Spring flowers cheers me up. I try not to think
Apr 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Snails and SlugsThe editor of this column wandered into her garden after the recent rains and was immediately confronted by several enormous snails, also ap
Mar 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: General Gardening TipsDo you have any general gardening tips for 2020 that might not fit into any particular category, but that you have learned from your own exp
Feb 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Gnome Sweet GnomeGarden Gnomes: Some people love them ("Yes! Even my fairy garden has a garden gnome.") and some people hate them ("Do they really have a pl
Jan 1, 2020SHARING SECRETS: Growing Plants from Seeds.Our December meeting featured an enthusiastic and informative talk by Brijette Peña on "The Magical World of Seeds". Have you grown plants
Dec 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Cut Flowers or Potted Plants?Which of these do you give more often as a gift: cut flowers or potted flowers/plants?
Nov 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Garden Bounty RecipesOur fruit and vegetable gardens can yield an abundance of riches that we love to enjoy right away or preserve for later. Do you have a favo
Oct 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Highly Recommended PlantsWhat are your top 2 or 3 plants for your location in San Diego, the ones you have the most success with and find yourself recommending to yo
Aug 28, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Meeting Memories. Edited by Tina Ivany. In honor of our 25th Anniversary, we first asked our founders and then our members at large: "What is your memory...
Aug 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Non-Kink HosesEdited by Tina Ivany. With our driest months coming up, Cheryl Nichols asks: “Is there really such a thing as a non-kink hose?.”...
Jul 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Rain RevelationsEdited by Tina Ivany. Have there been any surprises in your garden after all the rains this year? For example, are there plants in your...
Jun 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Game of ThornsEdited by Tina Ivany. Are you waging battle against any invasive plants or animals in your garden? How did these intruders come into...
May 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Garden ArtEdited by Tina Ivany. What is your favorite piece of garden art and how did you acquire it? Linda Canada: A friend made a piece of mosaic...
Apr 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Making Fences a Garden AssetEdited by Tina Ivany. Small yards, tall wooden fences. What have you discovered that incorporates boundary fences into your garden,...
Mar 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Our Favorite Garden QuotationsEdited by Tina Ivany. Do you have a favorite quotation about gardens or gardening? Robin Shifflet: Here is my favorite Japanese saying...
Feb 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: February Bloomers"It's winter! What's blooming in your garden? Annie Urquhart: Growing chard, spinach and herbs. Started a hydroponics garden, with...
Jan 1, 2019SHARING SECRETS: Rose Pruning TipsWinter is rose pruning time in San Diego. I've heard that roses should be cut back to 18" and I've heard that we should keep them around...
Dec 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Holiday Decorations From the GardenHow do you incorporate plants, seeds, and other material from your garden in your holiday decorations? Barb Hunting: I pick pine boughs...
Nov 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Welcoming Wildlife to the GardenWhat do you do in your garden to encourage bees, birds, and other wildlife? Diane Kennedy: Here at Finch Frolic Garden, we use no...
Oct 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Lessons Learned in the Summer GardenAs gardeners, we are always learning from our gardens. What did your garden teach you this summer? Linda Chisari: The unusually hot...
Sep 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Garden VisitorsHave you had any fun or surprising non-human visitors to your garden this year? What have you done to encourage—or maybe...
Aug 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Garden and Horticulture Bucket ListsEdited by Dayle Cheever. What is on your garden or horticulture bucket list? Gerald D. Stewart: There are some elusive things that are on...
Jul 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Discovering New PlantsEdited by Dayle Cheever. Every now and then I find a plant I have not seen before. Recently, it was hummingbird mint (Agastache) and I...
Jun 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Going Grassless With Ground CoversEdited by Dayle Cheever. In an effort to reduce water use, many of us have eliminated grass. What soft ground covers have you had success...
May 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Bulbs That Surprise and DelightEdited by Dayle Cheever* and Lisa Marun. I have a collection of reoccurring bulbs in my yard. They always surprise and delight me. Do you...
Apr 1, 2018SHARING SECRETS: Exciting Spring Smells Waft Through Wide Open Windows…Edited by Dayle Cheever. What plants are you growing? What is your favorite scent from your garden and why? Exciting spring smells waft...