Events + Tips

Although our regular meetings have been curtailed due to Covid restrictions, we've been able to get outdoors and tend to our projects and gardens.

Enjoy our Origami Butterfly Gallery

Look at the beautiful butterflies our booth visitors created during Fiesta del Sol in Solana Beach, May 21-22, 2022.

The Xerces Society added its weighty voice to a chorus of positive reports that the Western Monarchs have rebounded. "In a surprising...

Our 2021 wreath-making-meeting was a hit, once again. About a dozen gathered December 4 to share garden cuttings and create holiday...

In April, 2021, Mayor Lesa Heebner and Solana Beach City Council members signed the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge to help make Solana Beach...

SeaWeeder Cindi and I recently visited the pollinator garden planted April 23 at La Colonia Community Center. We were delighted to see...

Ann Baldridge, Community Programs Director of the Resource Conservation District of San Diego County* talked about the monarch life...

As reported March 6 by the San Diego Union Tribune, “Western monarch numbers have been steadily dropping for decades, from 1.2 million in...

On October 10, several Teen Volunteers in Action and some of their parents joined the SeaWeeders in layering newsprint and mulch at the...

On March 11, Skyline 6th graders helped us move 10 yards of mulch into place around new plantings and boulders at El Viento Pocket Park,...

On March 4, we learned bonsai pruning basics with Oriental tree artist Joe Elmer. Sixteen miniature trees were designed. Joe will return...

Amaryllis, Hippeastrum & Paperwhite Narcissus are very popular holiday gifts. Once the blooms have faded you can plant them outside in a...

In advance of the holiday season, our annual fundraiser traditionally has been a sale of poinsettia plants. Proceeds are earmarked for...

In December, we gather and gab and turn garden "waste" into holiday decorations. Cooler temperatures provide the perfect opportunity to...

On October 6, 2018, we collected an estimated 850 pounds of pesticides and herbicides at the Bulky-item + Pesticide Cleanup Day, at La...