Southwest Regional Reports
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Southwest Regional ReportsApril Garden To-Do List for the Southwest
Plant or transplant cacti. This is a great time to start planting cacti and succulents and to start transplanting perennials, but be sure to increase your watering routine as temperatures…
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Southwest Regional ReportsApril Garden To-Do List for Southern California
Clean out containers. Before you start a mad rush of buying new plants this month, get your old pots ready for reuse. Plants need every advantage you can give them,…
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Southwest Regional ReportsRunning Out of Room? Go Vertical!
We live in a time when people are choosing to downsize their large homes and expansive yards into smaller, more manageable spaces. Whether due to aging, wanting to reduce their…
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Southwest Regional ReportsButterfly Host Plants for the Southern Plains Garden
There are many reasons for having a butterfly garden, the simplest one being sheer beauty. People of all ages enjoy watching butterflies dance through their gardens. Butterflies also serve as…
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Southwest Regional ReportsEdible Flower Ideas for Warmer Climates
It’s always a delight to wander about the garden, seeing what’s growing and flowering from day to day. Add to that the fun of nibbling our way through edible flowers…
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Southwest Regional ReportsRegional Picks: Early Summer Plant Combo for the Southern Plains
1. Red Yucca Hesperaloe parviflora Zones: 5–11 Size: 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide Conditions: Full sun to partial shade; well-drained soil Native range: Southern Texas and northeastern Mexico…
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Southwest Regional ReportsRegional Picks: Early Summer Plant Combo for the Southwest
1. Transylvanian Salvia Salvia transsylvanica Zones: 5–9 Size: 24 to 30 inches tall and wide Conditions: Full sun; well-drained soil Native range: Northern and central Russia to Romania The world…
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Southwest Regional ReportsDrought-Tolerant Plants and Design Strategies for the Southern Plains
Ask any Texas gardener about the summer of 2011 and you are likely to get a loud groan followed by several lamentations. A year of extreme drought, 2011 brought many…
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Southwest Regional ReportsThe Right Way to Cut Back Grasses
Wispy, billowy, airy, feathery, wavy—these are just some of the words we use to describe ornamental grasses. So often, though, grasses are stripped of all these adjectives by incorrect trimming.…
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Southwest Regional ReportsSensational Mangaves for Easy-Care Flair
Mangaves happen to be one of our absolute favorite additions to our garden. A mangave (× Mangave cvs., Zones 8–11) is a hybrid of manfreda (Manfreda spp. and cvs., Zones…
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