SHARING SECRETS: Did You Put Up A Garden Structure?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. The current Sharing Secrets question… Did you put up a structure in your...
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November 2024
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Sep 30
SHARING SECRETS: Old Friend Plants
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Current question - Are there any “Old Friend Plants” that seemed finished but...
Aug 31
SHARING SECRETS: Wanted Or Unwanted? What Or Who Is Living In Your Garden?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Question for Sharing Secrets column for this month: Who, what, and/or why...
Aug 1
SHARING SECRETS: What Garden Bounty Are You Enjoying?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2024. This month’s question: What are you planting, cutting, eating, enjoying from...
Jun 30
SHARING SECRETS: What Is Luscious?
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?...
Apr 30
SHARING SECRETS: What’s New In Your Garden?
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...
Mar 31
SHARING SECRETS: What’s Your Favorite?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2024. This month’s question: What is your favorite plant, fruit, tree, flower, etc.,...
Mar 1
SHARING SECRETS: Putting Spring Into Your Garden’s Next Step
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...
Feb 1
SHARING SECRETS: The Rain To The Wind Said, ‘You Push And I'll Pelt.'
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...
Jan 1
SHARING SECRETS: Do The Plants Growing In Your Garden Remind You Of Wonderful People?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. Question for this month… … Hope you all are enjoying happy holidays with...
Dec 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Late Bloomers
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2023. Current Question: What is blooming in your garden now, did it just get...
Nov 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Inspiring Garden Visits Worth Copying At Home
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2023. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” - Charles Caleb Colton, 1820...
Sep 30, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Bulbs For San Diego
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...
Aug 31, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: We’re Having A Heat Wave…
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...
Jul 31, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Here Comes The Sun!
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...
Jun 30, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: What Tastes Good Growing In Your Garden?
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...
May 31, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: DIY Tools And Tricks
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,...
Apr 30, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Blue Skies Mean Gardens In Bloom
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...
Mar 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Garden Hearts And Flowers
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2023. This Month’s Question: In the season of hearts, sweethearts, and all things...
Feb 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: Rain Or Shine, What’s Your Plan?
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?...
Jan 1, 2023
SHARING SECRETS: What’s Your Glorious Secret?
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...
Dec 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Table Delights From Our Gardens
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...
Oct 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Thing To Do In Your Fall Garden
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...
Sep 30, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Beat The Heat!
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2022. This month’s question: It’s really warm in Southern California right now....
Aug 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Done Any Water Saving Recently?
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2022. This month’s Question: We need water for our plants and flowers. However,...
Jul 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Too Much Of A Good Thing…
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:...
Jun 30, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: What Do You Grow That You Love To Eat & Share?
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...
May 31, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Nature Walk
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...
Apr 30, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Garden Thing To Do
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...
Apr 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Horticultural Author Or Book
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...
Mar 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Winter Blues… Do You Have Any?
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...
Feb 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: ...Of The Traveling Plants
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. This Month's Question: What plants did you add to your gardens after...
Jan 1, 2022
SHARING SECRETS: Plants You Remember
Edited by Cathy Tylka, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Current question: What plant or plants do you remember from your...
Dec 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Changed Your Gardening Style? Besides Water Shortage, Why?
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...
Oct 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Green With Envy?
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...
Sep 30, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Making Changes Due To Looming Water Issues?
Edited by Cathy Tylka for Let's Talk Plants!, October 2021. Thank you, Ida Rigby, for these wonderful questions… Because we have water...
Aug 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: The Dog Days of Summer…
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...
Jul 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: What's Going Crazy In Your Garden?
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...
Jul 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Gardens, Parks and Riparian Areas To Visit
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,...
May 31, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Favorite Insects
Edited by Cathy Tylka. This Month's Question: “What’s your favorite insect or arachnoid? Does it fly, does it crawl, does it pollinate?...
Apr 30, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Spring Has Sprung
Edited by Cathy Tylka. Question: Spring has Sprung! How is your place doing? My plants are flowering like crazy, and some never bloomed...
Apr 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Spring Scene in the Garden
Edited by Cathy Tylka. Do you have bunnies, chickees or ducklings in your Garden? Yes, no, maybe so . . . well, what is on your Spring...
Mar 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Signatures of Garden Love
February is the month for Valentines, hearts and flowers… Do you have any signatures of love in your garden and how can you share them?
Feb 1, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Oops! What Did You Learn?
What did you learn from something that went wrong in your garden?
Jan 2, 2021
SHARING SECRETS: Has The Weather Got Your Plants Down?
Has the weather got your plants down . . . if yes, what are you doing about it? Weather includes heat, wind, overcast days, too much sun, d
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