September 13 on Zoom - Jeffrey Bale, with a chronological history of this self-taught stone Mason’s incredible work as a garden designer...

Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on Monday, August 9, 2021 at 6 pm (pst) on Zoom for a presentation by John Forti, author...

By Sharon Tooley, Palomar District Director. I am pleased to announce that the Palomar District is back to “in-person” meetings and...

By Karen England, Head Muckety-Muck. The San Diego Horticultural Society’s Book Club meets the last Monday of every month on Zoom at 5 pm...

The video recording of the great general meeting with Toni Gattone, The Lifelong Gardener, in June will be up on our YouTube channel ▶️...

By Susan Lewitt. Monarchs love milkweed, and happily for San Diego, there are several indigenous species. Narrow Leaf Milkweed, Asclepias...

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

By Diane Kennedy. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term permaculture in the 1970’s, and with the term they defined the...

By Robin Y Rivet. Ficus carica - edible fig: cross section showing syconium. Did you ever wonder why you don’t see flowers on fig trees?...

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...

By Ellen Reardon and Carl Price. First published in Let's Talk Plants! August 2008, No. 167. In a previous essay* we referred to a...

By Francesca Filanc. First Love® Gardenia, Gardenia jasminoides 'Aimee'. A strong memory from my childhood is of being beautifully...

San Diego Horticultural Society School Garden Grant of 2021 The San Diego Horticultural Society supports gardening education in San Diego...

Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society on Monday, August 9, 2021 at 6 pm (pst) on Zoom for a presentation by John Forti, author...

By Karen England. The Board met again in June with a special extra meeting to plan the next six months, as well as the next year,...

By Karen England. Next Book Club July 26, 2021 5 pm on Zoom In Praise of Tomatoes by Steven Shepherd We will be joined by the author's...

California Adventure Part Five - I can hear you say, "What happened to parts one through four?" Well, I'll tell you what happened ... In...

By Lynn Langley. Saxon Holt, author of “Gardening for Summer Dry Climates,” presented an eye-opening, yet practical, paradigm shift in...

By Sommer Cartier. Summer is here, and with it, those heat loving garden pests – and lots of them. When faced with a spider mite...

By Michael Harrelson. April showers bring May flowers … and weeds, lots of weeds. A weed is defined by the Weed Science Society of...

Edited by Cathy Tylka. Here’s the question of the month… Do you have a favorite garden, park or riparian area that you visit? Sometimes,...

By James A. Bethke. The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS), Homalodisca vitripennis (Figure 1), is an insect that was inadvertently...

By Tim Clancy. One of my favorite trees these days is the silk oak, Grevillea robusta. I was fascinated by its flowers when I first saw...

By Will Johnson. (First published in Let’s Talk Plants! August 2008, No. 167.) Studies demonstrate just how much water different types of...

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

By Francesca Filanc. “Saturday in the Park, I think it was the Fourth of July ..." - song written by Robert Lamm and recorded by the...

On July 12, 2021 at 6 pm on Zoom Please join the San Diego Horticultural Society for our next meeting as we learn to garden with ease and...

San Diego Horticultural Society School Garden Grant of 2021 The San Diego Horticultural Society supports gardening education in San Diego...

Please Join The San Diego Horticultural Society on Zoom June 14th, 2021 at 6 pm PST for Gardening In Summer-Dry Climates with...

Hi I’m Jenn Crocker, The 2021 Cuyamaca College Botanical Society recipient of the San Diego Horticultural Society’s Susi Torre-Bueno...

By Karen England. On Tuesday, May 18, the board met in-person (and on Zoom; we successfully tested the hybrid meeting model for use with...

By Karen England. SD Hort Book Club meets the LAST Monday of every month on Zoom. June 28, 2021 at 5 pm on Zoom Zoom link is emailed to...

By Donna Mallen. Meeting photos and screenshots by Janet Ward. Gabriel Frank is the author of Striking Succulent Gardens: Plants and...

By Robin Y Rivet. Is your neighborhood lined with large, mature street trees? The odds are against it. · Older communities once revered...

By Susan Lewitt. Here are some sweet native plants to consider that give you edible treats: Blue Elderberry, Sambucus nigra ssp....

Edited by Cathy Tylka. This Month's Question: “What’s your favorite insect or arachnoid? Does it fly, does it crawl, does it pollinate?...

By Jeanne Meadow. First published in Let’s Talk Plants! June 2015, No. 249. The California drought is serious. Our state’s mild climate...

By Mark Collins. Recently an email titled "An Evergreen family needs help; Tragedy Looking For Hope" went out from the President of...

By Francesca Filanc. We, who love gardening and gardens never cease to appreciate and enjoy the beauty inspiration, knowledge, love and...

On June 2nd, 1898 American humorist Mark Twain was quoted as follows: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” If trees could talk the