This “little bit of country in the city” is right in the heart of San Diego at 3110 Euclid. Here, on two acres of land, Farmer Bill Tall has been organically maintaining plants, bushes and trees since 1972. Part working farm, City Nursery also hosts classes ranging from growing your first vegetable garden, to canning and cooking, to beekeeping. And you’ll find plenty of pets and animals roaming the grounds as well.
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Retired fire captain Jody Rogers is a native San Diegan who grew up in Point Loma and has always enjoyed gardening. A few years ago when he trimmed his over-the-rooftop plumeria, he didn’t know what to do with all the cuttings. “So I started potting them up,” he said, using his own organic compost and visiting farmers markets. His plumerias are the celidine variety – “That’s the most fragrant variety, white with a yellow center, the ones the make Hawaiian leis out of,” he said. His booth will sell both his plumerias and his organic compost that I PH balanced, very fertile and filled with earthworms.
Blaine Tiongson and Theresa Solis’s ine of hand-painted terracotta pots are filled with plants they propagate. At the Momma’s Pots booth, shoppers pick a pot, and the proprietors suggest a plant to fit the environment where it will live; then the shoppers top off their selection with mosses, gravels or rocks, and it’s all tied up with a Japanese-style fabric. Momma’s Pots also sells bath balms and soy-based candles.
Robin Rushmore, owner of Ausachica Nursery, offers distinctive plants from Australia, South Africa, Chile and the Mediterranean – all of which she finds will thrive in southern California. She chooses Mediterranean-climate plants for their ease of maintenance, drought & heat tolerance and wildlife attraction. For more information contact Robin Rushmore at (858) 361-6899 or rush2robin@sbcglobal.net