San Diego Garden Clubs
It’s time to start planning and planting your spring garden, and there’s plenty of help available. There are nurseries all over San Diego county that can assist you, suggesting plants and vegetation appropriate to our climate and your home terrain.
If you’d like more ongoing help, or just want to share your passion for gardening, how about joining a local garden club, plant society or botanical organization (** noted below with asterisks ** ), There’s probably one or more right in your own neighborhood:
Alpine
**The Center to Help Instill Respect & Preservation for Garden Wildlife, Inc. (CHIRP)
Bonita
Carlsbad
California Coastal Rose Society
Carlsbad African Violet Society
Carlsbad Newcomers’ Garden Club
San Diego County Branch of the Cymbidium Society of America
Chula Vista
Clairemont
Clairemont Organic Gardening Club
Coronado
Del Mar
Friendship Gardeners of Del Mar
** San Diego Horticultural Society
Descanso
East County
East County Rose Society, at various locations
El Cajon
East County Edible Garden Club
Heartland African Violet Society
Southern California Plumeria Society
Encinitas
American Bamboo Society, Southern California Chapter
American Begonia Society, Mabel Corwin Branch
North County Bromeliad Society
** Quail Botanical Garden Foundation
** San Diego Master Composters
Southwest Hemerocallis (Daylily) Society
Escondido
American Begonia Society, San Miguel Branch
Palomar Cactus and Succulent Society
** Palomar District California Garden Clubs Inc.
San Diego-Imperial Counties Iris Society
Fallbrook
La Jolla
The Village Garden Club of La Jolla
La Mesa
Lakeside
Mission Hills
North County
Palomar Cactus & Succulent Society
Oceanside
Men’s Garden Club of San Diego County
Pacific Beach
Point Loma
Poway
Ramona
Rancho Bernardo
Bernardo Gardeners Garden Club
Rancho Bernardo Seven Oaks Garden Club
Rancho Santa Fe
San Carlos
San Marcos
California Rare Fruit Growers, North San Diego County
San Diego
American Begonia Society, Alfred D. Robinson Branch
American Begonia Society, Palomar Branch
American Ivy Society, San Diego Chapter, in Balboa Park
** American Society of Landscape Architects
** The Botanic Garden of San Diego
Bromelaid Study Group of Balboa Park
California Native Plant Society, San Diego Chapter, in Balboa Park
California Rare Fruit Growers, San Diego
** City Beautiful of San Diego
Heritage Roses Group, at various locations
Hon Non Bo Association, in Balboa Park
The Palm Society of Southern California
San Diego Botanical Garden Foundation
San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego Camellia Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego Chapter of Ikebana International, in Balboa Park
San Diego County Dahlia Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego County Orchid Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego Daytime African Violet Society
San Diego Epiphyllum Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego Fern Society, in Balboa Park
** San Diego Floral Association, in Balboa Park
San Diego Fuchsia & Shade Plant Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego Geranium Society, in Balboa Park
San Diego Herb Club, in Balboa Park
San Diego Rose Society, in Balboa Park
Southern California Water Garden Society
Valley Center
California Rare Fruit Growers, Inland Empire
Vista
Palomar Orchid Society
If you know of any other gardening clubs, or newer websites for those listed here, please let me know and I’ll be happy to add them here.
** Botanical Organizations
I’m looking for actual websites, rather than directory listings, for those in italics.
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Education for the Masses | The San Diego Beat
Mar 30, 2007 at 3:28 am
[...] Other community organizations offer free classes as well. The Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego provide free community law school classes on a monthly basis. There are free braille classes offered at the Escondido Joslyn Senior Center, free introductory dance classes through many dance studios, and free gardening classes are offered by local nurseries and garden clubs throughout San Diego. [...]
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