We are a local community of people who love plants for their beauty, diversity, usefulness and ecology. We welcome you to join us.
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?
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
Our September meeting was back at Scripps Miramar library and featured Dan Payne, who is the new owner of the Wild Birds Unlimited store on
Flourishing in our gardens.
Butchart Gardens, Victoria, Canada
Our club president recently had the chance to see the Butchart Gardens and loved it.
a mighty Staghorn fern
This fine specimen (Platycerium sp.) belonging to a club member began as single frond in
Hydrangea
The hot summer days are starting to stress hydrangeas that get near full sun but
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.