How To Use Ornamental Grasses In Your Landscape When homeowners plan landscapes or stroll through a garden center, they often gravitate to brightly colored flowers. And every garden needs some color, so that’s great. But flowering plants have seasons when they bloom, depending on the average temperatures in a low or high desert region. Ornamental…
How To Grow And Care For Artemisias Gardeners in the Southwest are constantly on the lookout for plants to provide some green that rustles in the breeze but can live in harmony with agave and barrel cactus. I’d like to suggest artemisias, a family of fragrant herbs that come from hot, dry regions of the…
Colorful Winter Plants and Shrubs for the Desert Landscape Unlike most areas that are lifeless and devoid of color in the winter, landscapes in the Desert Southwest can be full of colorful winter plants and shrubs. Make the most of your outdoor spaces by adding some of these colorful plants for the desert winter landscape.…
How Constant Trimming is Hurting Your Trees and Shrubs Pruning is important for training the plant; maintaining plant health; improving the quality of flowers, fruit, foliage, or stems; and restricting growth. Homeowners everywhere turn their attention to the yard when spring arrives. It seems to be an instinct humans have, the need to whip your…
What Is Sustainable Gardening? Sustainable gardening is the idea that you can maintain a garden or landscape that is both healthy for us but good for nature as well by growing native plants, using less water and no chemicals. Sustainable gardening is very popular in the Southwest right now with much of the area in…
Identify Hardy Desert Plants Besides the obvious method of looking at the nursery pot tag, there is an alternative method for discovering which desert plants will be drought tolerant. You may find it interesting to know that nature has endowed plants with distinctive features that make it possible to sort them into probable growing condition…