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Plant Tips and Guidelines for the Desert Garden

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I am a Horticulturist living in the Desert Southwest. Features include "Plant of the Month", Monthly Recommended Gardening Tasks, Plant Tips, Plant Mishaps, Beautiful Photos & much more!

• Added on: Aug 24th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Noelle Johnson
• Listed in: Gardening Lawn & Garden
• Tags: xeriscape desert landscaping desert gardening desert garden coach how to garden in the desert arizona landscape consultant

Recent Posts

• Cold Weather in the Desert ? Are You Kidding ?

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 23:15 in frost damage, frost in the desert, winter in the desert

  This may come as a shock to some of you....but, it does get cold in the desert.  Tonight's temperatures are dropping to the low 30's, which for us desert dwellers is cold.  Below, is a sampling of how winter looks in the desert.I was surpri...

• Wildflower Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 in baileya multiradiata, desert marigold, wildflower wednesday, linum grandiflorum 'rubrum', scarlet flax

  I just love wildflowers....their delicate blooms in all colors of the rainbow that grace our landscape in the springtime.  Well, it is not spring yet, but I can at least show you pictures of two of my favorite wildflowers.The vibrant blooms of S...

• Flowers for Both Christmas and Valentine\'s Day

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 22:36 in red flower, full sun, low-maintenance, australian native plants, mountain states wholesale nursery, eremophila maculata 'valentine', winter blooming shrub

  How would like gorgeous red, tubular flowers blooming at Christmas time and lasting past Valentine's Day, all packaged up in an attractive, low-maintenance shrub?  Well believe it or not, such a shrub exists.  Let me introduce you to 'Valen...

• Bird\'s Nests in the Most Unusual Places....

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 00:53 in cactus wren nest, saguaro nest hole, gilded flicker, elf owl, buckhorn cholla nest, saguaro nest

   Now most of us have seen birds build their nests in some unusual places.  Usually, somewhere out of reach where they can raise their young in safety.  Nowhere is this more true then in the desert.  Take a walk out in the desert a...

• Winter Flowers, Fragrance and a Funny Name

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 11:43 in thorns, cascalote, caesalpinia cacalaco, cascalote insect infestation, cascalote leaf loss, thornless cascalote

  Want beautiful foliage, spectacular flowers all packaged up in a tree that blooms in fall and winter?  Well, let me introduce you to a medium -sized tree with a funny name: Cascalote (Caesalpinia cacalaco).  I love this medium-sized tree wi...

• Everything\'s Coming Up Roses and an Award Too!

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 in double delight rose, best blog award, medallion rose, rio samba rose, john f. kennedy rose, david austin rose, touch of class rose, roses in the desert

  November is a beautiful month here in the desert, especially if you love roses as I do.  We are enjoying our fall rose blooming season.  There are two different seasons for rose bloom in the desert - spring and fall.  The rose abo...

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