Apr 1 EDITOR'S LETTER: I'm just an April Fool . . . 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
Feb 1 EDITOR'S LETTER: Tomatoes, Worthy of the Mania 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
Dec 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: The Garden in the Carols 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
Nov 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: Come Into The Garden, Cook 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
Oct 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: The "Set" (Song) List from the Horticultural Concert 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
Sep 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: Dos and Don'ts of Power Pole Gardening 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
Jul 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: Dogs in the Garden One of the unexpected outcomes of the Covid-19 quarantine is the remarkable number of pets that have been rescued from shelters worldwide. M
Jun 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: Quarantine Snailpocalypse 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
May 1, 2020 EDITOR’S LETTER: Smartphone Gardening - There’s an App for That! 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
Apr 1, 2020 EDITOR'S LETTER: Gardening Boom Comes From COVID-19 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
