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Featured Website
Calscape – the website of the California Native Plant Society May we draw your attention to the newly revamped Calscape website. Calscape
Did you know?
Homeowners Insurance in 92131 VHFHSZ: Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone is our new legislated reality. If you are a homeowner and a
Our Most Recent Club Meeting
Our February meeting was Master Gardener Cindy Brueks teaching us about drought tolerant plants and firesafe landscapes. All of Scripps Ranch is now declared a
Flourishing in our gardens.
Cheddar Caulifower
This year I planted 24 brassica related plants (broccoli, romanesco, cauliflower, cabbage). No thanks to
Spring Surprise
Dutch Iris (Iris hollandica). I forgot that I planted a few of these bulbs last
Fishbone Cactus
The leaves give it the name fishbone cactus or zig-zag cactus but it is the
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
“April showers bring May flowers”
Original citation is as follows…
Swéete April showers, Doo spring Maie flowers.
Forgotten month past, Doe now at the last.
In Cambridge shire forward to Lincolne shire way,
the champion maketh his fallow in May.
Then thinking so dooing one tillage woorth twaine,
by forcing of weede, by that meanes to refraine.
If April be dripping, then doo I not hate,
(for him that hath little) his fallowing late,
Else otherwise fallowing timelie is best,
for sauing of cattel, of plough and the rest.
Chapter 38, couplets 1 and 2
Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (circa 1557)
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, by Thomas Tusser..
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.