Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2025. This month’s question: What are you doing in your garden to make things easier to maintain as you grow older and your knees/back/muscles don't cooperate as they used to?  This question is thanks to Susi Torre-Bueno!                                          Linda Chisari reports… ... In 1976, when we moved into our current house in Del Mar, we were very excited to find a huge, south-facing backyard, perfect for a veg

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! October 2025. Current question: Did you ever think a plant was named one thing and then...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2025. The question for Sharing Secrets this month -   What is your favorite...

Glorious Fabulous Summer

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2025. Hops grow on a broken wooden ladder. Photo credit: Rachel Cobb. Current question...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2025. Wix stock photo. This month’s question: Do you have a favorite flower, plant or...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2025. Photo credit: Weeks Roses - Secret! From the Weeks catalog “You can't keep this...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2025. WiX stock photo. Room with a view. This month’s question – It’s almost Easter,...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2025. What has you "seeing red" in your garden around Valentine's Day? This month’s...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s talk Plants! February 2025. WiX stock photo. This month’s question: It is citrus time in the San Diego...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2025. WiX stock photo. Current question - …What would you like to ask? Do you have...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2024. Sharing Secrets question – November is pumpkin time and fall colors. Do you...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. The current Sharing Secrets question… Did you put up a structure in your...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Current question - Are there any “Old Friend Plants” that seemed finished but...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Question for Sharing Secrets column for this month: Who, what, and/or why...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2024. This month’s question: What are you planting, cutting, eating, enjoying from...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2024. Question for this month… … What is luscious? Is it a fruit, is it a vegetable?...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2024. Question for this Month … What are you doing new in your garden? It could be...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2024. This month’s question: What is your favorite plant, fruit, tree, flower, etc.,...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2024. Before we get to this month’s question and your answers, we have an...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. This month’s question - When and if the rain comes, what is your plan of...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. Question for this month… … Hope you all are enjoying happy holidays with...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2023. Current Question: What is blooming in your garden now, did it just get...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2023. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” - Charles Caleb Colton, 1820...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2023. This Month’s Question: In the season of hearts, sweethearts, and all things...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2022. This month’s question: It’s really warm in Southern California right now....

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2022. This month’s Question: We need water for our plants and flowers. However,...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. This Month's Question: What plants did you add to your gardens after...

Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Current question: What plant or plants do you remember from your...

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...

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...

Edited by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants!, October 2021. Thank you, Ida Rigby, for these wonderful questions… Because we have water...

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...

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...