Meeting Announcement

Our next meeting will be Wednesday September 27, 2017 in the Ecke Building at San Diego Botanic Garden.  Guests welcome.  

                                        9:30am     Coffee and Social Time + Board Members meet for Photo Shoot

                                        10:00        Business Meeting

                                        11:00        Program: Tony Gurnoe, Interim Director of Horticulture at San Diego Botanic Garden

        An entertaining speaker, Tony will talk to us about basic botany and plant identification. He beganworking at the Garden in 2008, left after several years to start an organic truck garden in Fallbrook, then returned this year when the Horticulture Manager position opened up. He also takes fantastic photographs of amazing flowers/plants he comes across, which you can see at his Internet site: https://www.instagram.com/botanicwanderer

Meetings and Field Trip Schedule for 2017-2018

2017

Sept 27      Tony Gurnoe, Head of Horticulture at SDBG, will speak on 

                   botany and plant i.d.

Oct 25        Field trip to Sunshine Care in Poway with Farmer Roy 

                                                 

Nov 15       Make a succulent ring, using a terracotta saucer, to 

                   surround a white candle

Dec 20       Holiday Party Potluck & Gift Exchange!

2018

Jan 24       Laura Eubanks will share some of her design ideas

Feb 28      Allan Dodds, SDBG Docent and Professor Emeritus of the 

                  Dept of Plant Pathology & Microbiology at UCR

                  

Mar 28      Decorate a birdhouse with paint and succulent cuttings

April 25    Weidners Gardens tour and talk by Evelyn Weidner

May 23     Field trip to Gardens By the Sea, a wonderful succulent 

                 nursery in Leucadia

June 27   Our End-of-the-year Potluck!