We are a group of gardeners and plant lovers who meet monthly to talk plants, share plants, seeds, and cuttings, and learn from guest garden/nature presenters. Our meetings are free and open to the public (except any field trips, our December holiday potluck, and our June Board of Directors Installation meeting)--please join us!

Our next meeting is for members only due to insurance issues and will be on November 17th at 11:30 a.m. We will skip our usual social time and jump right in to our Business Meeting for an hour. We'll then adjourn at 12:30 and head to the "University Farm" for a fun and informative tour of the greenhouses and new retail store. The tour will start promptly at 1:00 p.m. and will end at 2:00 p.m. The "University Farm" is officially known as the Chico State University Farm. The address is 311 Nicholas C Schouten Ln, Chico, CA 95928.

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PHOTO OF THE MONTH: Chrysanthemum 'Campfire Glow'. Cut back chrysanthemum stems once a month until the Fourth of July to delay flowering until autumn when we need the flowers more.

Updated November 2025! 🦃

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Happy November! 🦃 🍁

Now is a great time to do the following:

  • plant garlic and onions

  • plant perennials, trees, and shrubs

  • plant cool weather veggies like kale, Swiss chard, spinach, peas, cilantro and lettuce

  • plant seeds of sweet peas outside--they'll sprout now, grow slowly all winter and will explode in to growth/bloom much earlier than spring-sown sweet peas

  • plant spring bulbs like narcissus (smaller flowered types do better in warm winter climates like Chico), wood hyacinths (Hyacinthoides hispanica), Dutch iris (Iris x hollandica), tulips (species types and extra-early varieties do best in Chico)

  • It's still not too late to plant freesia bulbs for spring/early summer blooms (or purchase some already growing)

  • Pot up paperwhite narcissus indoors for sweet smelling flowers for the holidays. Do a few bulbs in a pot each month or so. After blooming they can be planted outside in Chico for flowers in future springs

  • Propagate tender plants that you want to keep for next year. Some plants that can't tolerate frost can be propagated in a glass of water then potted up as houseplants for winter and then planted outdoors in early summer (coleus, begonias, impatiens, plectranthus, Persian shield, etc)

Updated November 2025! 🦃

Photo collage of beautiful downtown Chico, California.
Photo collage of beautiful downtown Chico, California.
Beautiful downtown Chico, California
A beautiful harvest of homegrown tomatoes from a club member's garden.
A beautiful harvest of homegrown tomatoes from a club member's garden.
Fresh tomatoes from a member's garden.
A Chico Horticultural Society member's flower-filled garden.
A Chico Horticultural Society member's flower-filled garden.
Butterfly bushes (Buddleia sp.), Rudbeckia, canna lilies and zinnias in a member's summer garden.
Chico Horticultural Society members potting up plants to sell.
Chico Horticultural Society members potting up plants to sell.
Club members at one of several "potting parties" to prepare plants for our fund-raising spring Plant Sale
Photo collage of 9 pink California poppy flowers from a member's garden
Photo collage of 9 pink California poppy flowers from a member's garden

Pink forms of our usually-orange state flower: the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) in a club member's garden.

We are also known as the Chico Garden Club ✅

Got questions? e-mail us at chicogardenclub@gmail.com