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Plants for Your Region to Add to Your Shopping List
Whether you’re walking through your local garden center, flipping through the pages of your favorite catalog, or scrolling the website of an online retailer, the sheer number of plant choices…
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Design
GPOD on the Road: Two Arizona Gardens
Carol is taking us on the road today to warm, dry, Arizona. I thought I'd join in and share some photos I took while on the road recently. I traveled…
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How-To
Deterring Deer, Rabbits, and Javelinas From Southwestern Gardens
Gardeners invest time, money, dedication, and care into their gardens. Many of us wait for special plants to display their dazzling show of blooms, leaf colors, and fruit at unique…
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Design
Alternatives to Blue Spruce for the Southwest
Many of my landscaping clients desire a blue color from evergreens to balance out the earth tones of our high desert environment. One of the go-to conifers used for this…
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How-To
Southwest: February Garden To-Do List
February in the Southwest is a great time to get back into your garden. Winter is coming to an end, and spring is right around the corner, which makes it…
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Article
Southwest: January Garden To-Do List
Here in the desert, the weather has cooled off enough to spend all day outside. Whether you spend your time gardening, golfing, relaxing, or all of the above, you can…
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Design
The Best Salvias for the Southwest
If you’re like me and prefer that your perennials power on through the dog days of summer and well into fall, salvias (Salvia spp. and cvs., Zones 5–11) are the…
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Design
Resilient Trees for the Southwest
Trees anchor our landscapes both in size and scale. Landscapes without trees seem barren; even desert environments need trees. Trees stand out in the arid high desert where I live.…
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Article
Southwest November Garden To-Do List
We officially made it to November. The air is cooler, our windows are open, and what leaves we do have are falling. The javelinas and other wildlife in your area…
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How-To
Pest Control for the Southwest: Piñon Ips Beetle
The piñon ips beetle (Ips confusus) infests Southwest-native piñon pines (Pinus edulis, Zones 4–8) throughout the region. According to the Colorado State Forest Service, “Ips beetles, sometimes known as ‘engraver…