San Diego Horticultural Society

03/11/2026

Hope you can join us on our Spring Garden Tour! Coming Up Soon! Limited tickets available so get yours now.

01/27/2026

Every year the board of the San Diego Horticultural Society selects an important member of the local horticultural community to honor as our Horticulturist of the Year. The award recognizes an individual for a lifetime of achievement and service.

You can read more about honorees at:

Every year the board of the San Diego Horticultural Society selects an important member of the local horticultural community to honor as our Horticulturist of the Year. The award recognizes an individual for a lifetime of achievement and service.

12/07/2025

Perfect holiday gift for your horticultural friends- clothing and merchandise with the SD Horticultural Society logo.

We create amazing designs.

08/12/2025

Sharing Gardens returns in October!
And the great news we already have a garden a month lined up between now and April 2026.
This is an opportunity to visit a beautiful garden, take a self-paced garden tour, and socialize with other society members.

You do need to be a member and register in advance to attend. Use the link below to learn more.

https://www.sdhort.org/FeaturedGarden

05/06/2025

Here’s a full article about blue-eyed grass being San Diego’s official wildflower. After reading the article, click the ‘home’ link at the top to view all of the articles in this month’s newsletter.

Text and photos by Jim Bishop, for Let's Talk Plants! May 2025.It's official. Blue-eyed grass is now the official flower of San Diego. The Western blue-eyed grass scientific name is Sisyrinchium bellum, in Spanish it is pasto des ojitos azulesç and in the Kumeyaay language kuushaaw. It occurs natur...

10/18/2024

Some of the door prizes for tomorrow’s monthly meeting on growing proteas. You can’t win if you don’t attend.
Learn more and register to attend: https://www.sdhort.org/event-5897008

10/12/2024

https://www.sdhort.org/event-5897008

Don’t miss our next meeting about growing Proteas. There is no zoom for this meeting so you need to attend in person.
There will be Proteas and related plants for sale as well as cut flowers.
Saturday, October 19 at 1:30 - 3 PM at the Oasis in Rancho Bernardo. Don’t miss it. Use the link to pre-register for easy check-in.

Daniel and his partner, Steve, are originally from Canada. They bought land near Lake Sutherland, Ramona and built a small house there in 2009. At that point, they intended to be snowbirds - spending winters in Ramona and summers back in Canada. Also in 2009, they came across a magnificent property....