By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2025. Continental Constructing Tires From Dandelions | Continental Tire Unbelievably this...

By Aprille Phooles, (aka Karen England) for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2024. Unveiling Our New Name in April – The San Diego Herbicultural...

By newsletter editor-in-chief Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2023. Ever play the game Two Truths and a Lie? According to...

By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d - By Walt Whitman When lilacs last in the...

By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Some of the sad news of 2021 is that the SDHS and the San Diego community at large...

Edited by Ken Gland. President and newsletter editor-in-chief, Karen England, asked at the last meeting for members to send in current...

By Karen England. Historically the Green Cross has had many different iterations from meaning "First Aid," or a "Medical Marijuana...

By Karen England. First published in 2012 on edgehillherbfarm.blog. The rose was the Herb of the Year™ for 2012 and when folks find this...

Well, I can't resist posting just one more April Fool's Day Botany article, even though I tried using restraint by only posting one such pr

Like all events everywhere, the Vista Garden Club's May 2020 Annual Flower Show and Plant Sale was canceled. And, as a result, the plant sal

For a very long time now, decades really, I have been working on an idea for a gardening book called “The Garden in the Carols", all about t

During this pandemic I have been chipping away indoor and out at my home projects list, comfortingly it turns out, much as I have been doing

Will the roses bloom where she lies sleeping Will the flowers shed their petals there Will the dewdrops fall upon the roses Where my darling

Do you have a power pole in your garden? I do. And, for the last 19 years I have successfully gardened around mine. I say successfully becau

One of the unexpected outcomes of the Covid-19 quarantine is the remarkable number of pets that have been rescued from shelters worldwide. M

While the rest of the world learned to make sourdough bread with little or no ingredients or started a victory garden with a clay pot that t

I am never without my smartphone because it is how I communicate with my invalid mother who lives with me. She texts me when she needs somet

I had a phone conversation last week with my cousin, the owner/operator of Sunshine Gardens in Encinitas about his invalid wife and my inval

In July and August of 2004, December of '07 and June and July of '08 I traveled to Ireland for weeks at a time each trip, specifically to st

My parents were born in and I grew up to the age of 11 in Sierra Madre, California, a tiny, idyllic burg in Los Angeles County, the home of

I am a long-time member of the International Herb Association, the IHA, and we have a long-standing educational program called the Herb of t

British playwright and author, James M. Barrie, 1860-1937, is attributed with saying “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in

I moved to Vista, CA in May of 2000 to a rental with the sole purpose of getting my husband and myself closer to where we were shopping,

Confession: I’m not a great gardener, I haven’t always loved it, I’m not a natural, but thankfully none of that has ever stopped me from gar

Let's Talk Plants! longtime Sharing Secrets Editor Dayle Cheever is stepping down and we are looking for a successor. The Sharing Secrets...

By Susan Starr. WUCOLS is the somewhat unwieldy acronym for Water Use Classification of Landscape Species. In spite of its odd name,...

San Diego Botanic Garden has announced that Dr. Ari Novy, currently Leichtag Foundation's chief scientist and former executive director...

Let's Talk Plants! longtime Sharing Secrets Editor, Dayle Cheever, is stepping down and we are looking for a successor. The Sharing...

By Susan Starr. Southern California is home to many famous public gardens, including the Huntington Botanical Gardens, Descanso Gardens,...

By Susan Starr. At each monthly meeting, members bring in plants, cuttings, or flowers and put them in the blue bottles provided on our...

By Susan Starr. Rainforest Flora’s growing grounds, located at the epicenter of the Lilac Fire, on West Lilac Road, was completely...

After our dry fall, the San Diego Water Authority’s Water Smart workshops are particularly welcome. According to their website,...

By Susan Starr. The San Diego Botanic Garden’s Dickinson Family Education Conservatory building is now being erected (by large cranes) at...

By Lisa Marun. As SDHS members, we are all part of a greater gardening community that's bound by a love of and appreciation for plants....

SDHS welcomes a new board member this month. Karen Krugman has joined the SDHS Board as our new Volunteer Coordinator. Karen moved to...

By Lisa Marun. A Story About Family, Science, and Hard Work Now on the must-do list for San Diego visitors and locals alike, the Flower...