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May 2, 2020

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: May Wildflowers in San Diego

If you are looking to dive into plants not just native to California, but native to San Diego to give your garden a truly local character, t

Apr 30, 2020

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Malvern Spring Festival & Chelsea Garden Show 2019

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Chelsea Garden Show has been cancelled. How tired we all are of reading those words about our favori

Apr 30, 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 30, 2020

MEET THE SDHS BOARD: John Beaudry, Spring Garden Tour Chairman

Even though our San Diego Horticultural Society's big garden tour of Poway was cancelled this year that does not negate all the hard work th

Apr 30, 2020

FALLBROOK FOOD FOREST: Permaculture Design for Every Yard

Permaculture promotes that landscaping be 99% design and 1% labor, and if you are working too hard your design is wrong. Yet all of us are g

Apr 30, 2020

APRIL MEETING REPORT is FROM THE ARCHIVES: Can a Massage Oil Help Prevent Global Warming?

Editor's note: Since there was no meeting in April 2020 to report about to the membership, this edition of the From The Archives column feat

Apr 30, 2020

SHARING 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 30, 2020

GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Fast Growing, High Yielding, Money Saving Crops

Amidst the recent pandemic, the motivators behind the patriotic “victory gardens” of WWI and WWII are resurging. Short supply of staple foo

Apr 1, 2020

TREES, PLEASE: Are Your Trees Drinking Enough? Calculate…

Although April showers may offer some respite, most yard trees will soon rely solely on you for a drink. Unfortunately, that dependence ofte

Apr 1, 2020

May Meeting

Mar 31, 2020

SHARING SECRETS: Snails and Slugs

The editor of this column wandered into her garden after the recent rains and was immediately confronted by several enormous snails, also ap

Mar 31, 2020

PHOTO CONTEST: Have You Entered?

Since our garden and meetings are canceled for the time being, we would like to keep you involved in our Horticultural Community.

Mar 31, 2020

MEETING REPORT: Gardening Has NOT Been Canceled

Even though the garden tour was canceled and our next few meetings are canceled, gardening has NOT been canceled. Get out there!

Mar 31, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: The Complete Writings of Kate Sessions in California Garden, 1909-1939 New Edition

Oh, Ms. Sessions, why do we all love thee? Your insights, quips, instruction are informed and true. You reach us on so many levels. Reading

Mar 31, 2020

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Medicinal Plants

A few months ago, we wrote an essay on “Plants that Heal” (*Current Editor’s note: see below). Although both this and the earlier narrative

Mar 31, 2020

THE BUG MAN: Jumping Spiders - One of the Good Guys

When I was a teenager, I collected a whole bunch of very small jumping spiders into small, clear, plastic containers and watched them for ho

Mar 31, 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

Mar 31, 2020

APRIL FOOL'S DAY BOTANY: Echinocereus dahliaeflorus

The page, dubbed "Plant life that exists only on April 1st," has 22 "species," i.e. pranks, that date from 1900 through 2019 and are some of

Mar 12, 2020

MARCH MEETING: Cancelled!

CANCELLED! March 16th, 2020

Mar 1, 2020

EDITOR'S LETTER: "Irish Peony"

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

Mar 1, 2020

MEETING REPORT & NEWS:

http://www.sdfloral.org/kos-book.htm Got Green? & TOMATOMANIA! at the San Diego Botanic Garden Saturday, April 4 10 am – 4 pm ~...

Mar 1, 2020

GOING WILD WITH NATIVES: "The Artful California Native Gardens of East County" CNPS-SD Tour

When you think about planting your garden, consider California native plants; they can be a perfect fit! Native plants need minimal water,

Mar 1, 2020

GUEST COLUMN: SDHS Horticulturist of the Year 2017, Debra Lee Baldwin, visits HOY '19, Jim Bishop.

Recently past Horticulturist of the Year 2017, Debra Lee Baldwin visited with SDHS past-president Jim Bishop, who also is the current Hortic

Mar 1, 2020

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Garden Gourmet - Behold The Humble Potato

This article first appeared in Let’s Talk Plants! March 2008, No. 162. While editing this newsletter in 2020, editor Karen England got hungr

Mar 1, 2020

GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Edible Weeds in the Garden

For many of us, weeds can be a garden scourge. You step away from the garden only to return to a fortress of dandelions, stinging nettle and

Mar 1, 2020

SHARING SECRETS: General Gardening Tips

Do 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

Mar 1, 2020

TREES, PLEASE! Dead as a Doornail

In the world of Urban Forestry one of the concepts we consider is the safe useful life expectancy (SULE) of a tree. There are many component

Mar 1, 2020

MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Machu Picchu

As I mentioned in my January article, this past September I joined a plant expedition tour to Peru. It was a different type of tour for me.