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Feature Article
Harmonious Cultivation Local resident and Master Gardener, Shital Parikh, recently presented to the garden club the science of companion planting and crop rotation.
Did you know?
Outdoor Book Library To celebrate our club’s 30th year we have established an outdoor gardening library. It is located at Walter Andersen’s Nursery in Poway
Our Most Recent Club Meeting
At our March meeting we heard from club member and master gardener Sharon Colayco about landscaping with California natives. Design, plan, consider the seasons, a
Flourishing in our gardens.
Peruvian Daffodil
Exotic and fragrant! If you want a consistent spring bloomer and a bulb that will
Chaparral Monkey Flower
I bet there are many so called “monkey flowers” around the world and despite the
Outdoor Book Library
To celebrate our club’s 30th Anniversary we have set up a gardening book lending library
Welcome to the Scripps-Mesa Garden Club
Testimonials
I used the plant donation table to find a drought tolerant ground cover to landscape around a neglected community welcome sign in Serra Mesa. BB
I used to think of gardening as a solitary sport, which it can be, but I have met so many other enthusiastic garden lovers through the Club that I now feel like I am part of a supportive team. DS
your chance to say how the club has benefited you
Initials
Ordinarily I go to the woods alone,
with not a single friend,
for they are all smilers and talkers
and therefore unsuitable.
I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree.
I have my ways of praying,
as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone
I can become invisible.
I can sit on the top of a dune
as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned.
I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me,
I must love you very much.
How I Go Into The Woods by Mary Oliver
Feature Article
This is your opportunity to contribute to our club and website through writing and/or art to inform each other. See our current feature article on Planting a Spring Meadow.