Within our club are member-led smal groups that focus on an individual or
a group of plants for one or more meetings. They are a great way to
get to know other enthusiasts within the club and share or learn new
information. Refer to the newsletter or calendar on the Member Pages for study
group topics and schedules.
Below are links supplied in some of our recent study groups:
Fruits and Vegetables
California Rare Fruit Growers
Iris
Sutton's Iris Gardens
American Iris Society
Roses
Rose Parentage
ABCs of
(seed) Hybridizing
Stem Cutting Propagation
Rose
Hybridizing for Beginners
California Coastal Rose Society
Mediterranean
California's drought: map of season's rainfall to date.
With Fallbrook located in one of the world’s five mediterranean-climate zones, this
group focuses on plants that thrive in these areas, characterized by rainfall limited
to the winter months. Besides most of California and most countries bounding the
Mediterranean Sea, these areas include Central Chile, the South African Cape, and
Western and South Australia. Drought-tolerant can be beautiful, too.Mediterranean gardening links
Mediterranean Garden Society:
Headquartered in Greece with a world-wide membership; subscribe to its free email discussion group.
Gardening in Mediterranean Climates Worldwide:
Repository for information passing through the MGS email discussion group as well as collected
from various independent research and collections
Drought-Tolerant Plants: A California water district’s extensive list and description of trees,
shrubs, annuals, perennials, and vines; use
Google Image Search to see what they look like.
Cuyamaca Water Conservation Garden:
Located in El Cajon; visit its new succulent garden.
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden:
The largest botanical garden devoted exclusively to California natives; many design
ideas; located in Claremont.
Theodore Payne Foundation:
Operates a California natives and wildflowers garden and plant nursery in Sylmar and
sponsors a spring wildflower hotline.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden:
Another large garden devoted exclusively to California natives.
San Francisco Botanical
Garden at Strybing Arboretum:
Public garden with sections representing the five mediterranean-climate zones;
website has other resources
Mediterranean architecture and garden design links
Photos of
Mediterranean Gardens
Adamson House:
1920s Spanish Colonial Revival house on the Malibu coast featuring extensive
use of decorative tile, both indoors and in the garden.
Sources for native and mediterranean-climate plants
California Water-Wise: Besides a nursery list, this site put together by Southern
California water agencies includes step-by-step guides for designing and maintaining
a mediterranean, water-wise garden.
Las Pilitas:
Escondido nursery specializing in California natives
Tree of Life:
San Juan Capistrano nursery specializing in California natives
Blossom Valley Protea:
Protea, grevillea and other Sourthern Hemisphere Mediterranean-climate natives
Australian
Native Plants Nursery: Ventura County nursery's website with beautiful
photos – search for drought tolerance
Updated 10/19/09
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