May 12 – A SPECIAL EVENING WITH KEN DRUSE, Making More Plants: Adventures in Horticulture!

When you find a new rare plant, the best thing to do is give it away; or more precisely, a piece of it. Then, if something happens to your precious agave, philodendron, or fabulous native plant, you'll know where you can get it back. Learning how to propagate your plants is not only a path to plant insurance, but to gift-giving, experiencing the thrill of nurturing something from practically nothing, and many ways to grow your garden collection. Ken will present up-to-the-minute findings and the results of his own experiments in this lively talk.

Ken Druse is the author of 16 books on gardening including bestsellers and award winning titles like The Natural Shade Garden, The Natural Habitat Garden, and The Passion for Gardening. His next book will be out this fall. Ken is a contributor to the New York Times, nearly every shelter and gardening magazine, and his own weekly podcast: Ken Druse REAL DIRT (www.realdirtradio.com). He is a Fellow of the Garden Writers of America, and received the Sarah Chapman Francis medal for lifetime achievement from the Garden Club of America.

Copies of Ken’s books Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation and Ken Druse: The Passion for Gardening will be available for sale. For more information visit http://www.kendruse.com.
 

June 14 - July 6- Visit us at the San Diego County Fair

Our Horticulturists of the Day will be on hand at the San Diego County Fair to answer your garden questions. They’ll be happy to chat with you at our educational and exciting display garden, which will showcase climate-appropriate plants. Come see exciting new plants and easy-care beauties. We’ll also lead tours of the dozens of display gardens at the Fair during the Breakfast at the Fair event. To learn more visit www.sdfair.com.

July 14– *Robert Herald, Philadelphia Gardens Great and Small, Quaint and Queer (members free, non-members $5)*

In early June the San Diego Horticultural Society sponsored a garden tour to visit extraordinary gardens in and around Philadelphia. Robert Herald, one of our tour guides, will present an exciting program about the gardens we visited, including Longwood Gardens, Chanticleer,
Winterthur, Mt. Cuba, Meadowbrook Farms, Bartrum’s Garden, Morris Arboretum, the Barnes Foundation, and some renowned private gardens. These gardens are both stunning and historically important, and if you can’t see them in person come see them all in one evening.

World famous Longwood Gardens boasts 1,050 acres with 20 indoor and 20 outdoor gardens, including conservatories, fountains, and an historic house. Chanticleer is a 35 acre horticultural display garden where the artistry of gardening, plant collecting and superb horticultural skill
combine to create a truly unique and quirky garden. Winterthur’s 1,000-acre country estate encompasses rolling hills, streams, meadows, and forests. Mt. Cuba Center is a 650-acre non-profit horticultural institution set in the rolling hills of northern Delaware, with spectacular woodland wildflower gardens. Meadowbrook Farms offers outstanding flowering baskets, trees and shrubs, one-of-a-kind specimen plants. Bartram’s Garden is America's oldest living botanical garden, a pastoral 18th century homestead famed for its wildflower meadow, majestic trees, river trail, wetland, stone house and farm buildings.

The Morris Arboretum has thousands of rare and lovely woody plants, including some of Philadelphia's oldest, rarest, and largest trees, set in a romantic, 92-acre, Victorian landscape garden of winding paths and streams. Located in a twelve-acre arboretum, the Barnes Foundation is home to one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Modigliani, as well as important examples of African sculpture. We’ll also see Hedgleigh Spring and Frog Hollow, two private garden jewels which show great passion and
gardening talent.

Robert Herald divides his time as Plant Recorder for Chanticleer in Wayne Pennsylvania, and Tyler Arboretum in Media Pennsylvania. Previously, Robert worked at Longwood Gardens where he was Curatorial Assistant for 10 years and Head Gardener of the Hillside Garden for 7
years. He continues teach an intensive Certificate of Merit Class for the Longwood Continuing Education Program. His class focuses on his long interest in flowering shrubs, both fashionable and old- fashioned. He lives and gardens in Swarthmore, PA with his partner, Jim.


August 11 – Pat Welsh, Growing and Harvesting Winter Crops (members free, non-members $5)

September 8 – Renee Shepherd, Renee’s Garden Seeds (members free, non-members $5)

October 13 – Bob Dimattia, Bamboo (members free, non-members $5)

November 10 – Koby Hall, Garden Treasures of the Pacific Northwest
(members free, non-members $5)

December 8 – Pete Anderson & other experts, Backyard Vineyards in San
Diego County (members free, non-members $5)