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Feature Article
Reflections on Predator-Prey Relationships We gardeners do not like plant pests. Our hearts’ dip when we see the early signs; discoloring, wrinkling, chew marks,
Our Most Recent Club Meeting
Our February 24 meeting was well attended to hear Diana Drummey give a hands-on and personal presentation about potted plants. A highlight was her creativity
Flourishing in our gardens.
The End
Dear Gardeners, Plant Lovers, and Viewers. We are letting you know that our club website
Lawyers Wig
Recently seen in Scripps Ranch and probably from the rain a few weeks back this
A Quirky Quercus
This is Quercus x munzii, an unusual and poorly understood hybrid form of California Live
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.