Tag: Mission Hills Garden Walk
25th Annual Mission Hills Garden Walk Scheduled for Saturday, May 13
The 2023 Mission Hills Garden Walk continues to be a much-loved gardening tradition with tickets almost sold out. Celebrating the 25th annual garden walk, this year’s variety of gardens will be sure to offer ideas for anyone thinking of making changes in their own gardens or to just wishing to stroll through and enjoy the […]
Kokedama Workshop
In February, the Mission Hills Garden Club attended a workshop on Kokedama, an offshoot of Bonsai, given by Kanako Yamada. Kokedama is a plant which grows from a sphere consisting of roots covered in soil and then wrapped in colored moss. The spere represents the earth. After feasting on delicious Japanese style hors d’oeuvres, we […]
Mission Hills Garden Walk Set for May 8
The 23rd Annual Mission Hills Garden Club is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday May 8. Titled, Where Flowers Bloom, So Does Hope, will again be held on the Saturday of Mother’s Day weekend. The theme, incorporating a phrase attributed to Lady Bird Johnson, is fitting to the beginning of emergence from the […]
Staghorn Ferns
Lynn Walker-Beveridge gave the Mission Hills Garden Club a practical and interesting approach to staghorn ferns. She began her talk with the basics giving us specific and easy to follow instructions on propagating and nourishing staghorn ferns. Walker-Beveridge began by showing us several plants that Martha Pehl had grown. They ranged in age from two […]
Take A Walk Down Memory Lane at the 20th Annual Mission Hills Garden Walk
The Mission Hills Garden Club is pleased to announce their 20th annual garden tour. “Take A Walk Down Memory Lane” is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 12, 2018. There will be 10 to 15 gardens selected in North Mission Hills. Mission Hills Garden Club raises money from the walk each year to […]
Grant K-8 Student Art Is Inspiration for Mission Hills Garden Walk
Art Contest Winners Raise Awareness for Garden and Outdoor Science Lab The Mission Hills Garden Club and the Grant School Community Foundation recently announced the winners of the Art Logo Contest for the 19th Annual Mission Hills Garden Walk. This year, the walk is raising money to support the relocation of the beloved Gecko Garden […]
Welcome to the 17th Annual Mission Hills Garden Club Garden Walk
By Maureen Tess-Fieberg and Antoinette Embry, Co-Chairs, 2015 Mission Hills Garden Walk “Inspiration and Influence 1915-2015….Celebrating the Horticultural Heritage of Mission Hills” is this year’s Garden Walk theme. All year long, America’s Finest City is celebrating the centennial anniversary of San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition and honoring the event that helped to shape San Diego in […]
Mission Hills Nursery: Will It Survive?
There may be a day in the near future when our Mission Hills Nursery is no longer a landmark on the corner of Palmetto and Fort Stockton Drive. Old time Mission Hills residents remember Mission Hills Nursery when the Antonicelli family owned and ran it. Giuseppe Antonicelli bought it from Kate Sessions in 1922. In […]
