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• January General Meeting

  • When
    Wed, January 08, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    All Souls' Episcopal Church

  Program: How to propagate from vegetables, plants, seeds, cuttings, grafts.

  Our speaker, Jackie Riekstins, has an MS in Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona, and has worked in the greenhouse trade, as well as Landscape Construction and Design. From her many years of experience in the greenhouse, home gardening, and landscaping, she will share various methods of propagation of plants from a mother plant by means of seeds, vegetative parts, tissue culture, grafting, and micropropagation.

  
  

  
  

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• February General Meeting

  • When
    Wed, February 12, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    All Souls' Episcopal Church

  Program: Paradise in an English Garden

  Nancy Carol Carter is the associate editor of California Garden and serves on the boards of San Diego Floral Association, the California Garden and Landscape History Society and the Balboa Park Committee of 100. She volunteers with Forever Balboa Park, the San Diego History Center and is a Trustee of the Library Foundation SD. She researches, writes and speaks about Balboa Park, Kate Sessions and horticultural history. She will share her research of traditional English Gardens and their pioneering landscape designers through her beautiful photography, including King Charles’ High Grove.

  5 Minute Presentation

  Gail Avants - Garden Bingo

  
  

  
  

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• March General Meeting

  • When
    Wed, March 12, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    All Souls' Episcopal Church

  Mini Program: Kathy Hargrove, Creating a Little Free Library

  Program: ART ALIVE by Five Floral Designers

  ART ALIVE is the concept of combining wonderful works of art such as paintings and sculptures with interpretive floral designs created by Garden Club Arrangers, Florist, Ikebana Arrangers and Bonsai practitioners. The public and museum members view the works of art in an entirely new light once the floral arrangements are in place with the painting or sculptures. The flower arrangements are symbolic interpretations rather than a literal copy of the art with flowers. Members Dale Rekus, Jan Kugler, Rick Spears, Lina Pei and Laurie Roeder will interpret art pieces from our museum and explain their design and thought process for creating beautiful floral designs reflecting stunning works of art.

  
  

  
  

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• April General Meeting

  • When
    Wed, April 09, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    All Souls' Episcopal Church

  Mini Program: Martha White – Philanthropy Year End Update

  Program: Is it a Horticultural Myth?

  Dawn Standke will present.

  It's easy to find gardening advice online - but how much of it makes sense? Join us for some Horticultural Myth Busting where we will cover topics including: Should I put banana peels on my plants? Do eggshells, Epsom salts or Tums cure blossom end rot on tomatoes? Will a “penny ball” drive away snails and slugs? Can copper nails kill trees? Should I put gravel in the bottom of a container to improve drainage? Are bananas slightly radioactive? Which plants can hurt me? Are green potatoes bad for me? What are some facts (not so fun!) about our new invasive mosquito species, the “ankle biter” or yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti?.

  
  

  
  

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• May General Meeting

  • When
    Wed, May 14, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    All Souls' Episcopal Church

  Mini Program: Valerie Jenkins, Beehive Show and Tell

  Program: Tips for Improving (or Starting) Your Rose Garden

  Beth Van Boxtel is a San Diego native and Certified Rosarian, consulting rosarian, and a UCCE Master Gardener. She teaches and inspires home gardeners to grow the best roses in their yard with simple tips and strategies. She currently maintains a large rose garden, volunteers for the San Diego Rose Society, and won the Rising Star Award from the American Rose Society.

  
  

  
  

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