October is my favorite month of the year in the garden. Summer is over and when I walk outdoors, I am greeted with delightful temperatures in the 80’s. I even had to wear a light sweater the other night when out walking the dogs with my husband 🙂 Planting shrubs in the parking lot of […]
Earlier this week, I shared with you the four vegetables that I am growing for the first time this year. I will be sure to share with you how they do as the season progresses. In addition to my experimenting with new vegetables, I am also growing some favorite cool-season vegetables… My favorite cool-season vegetable […]
Have you decorated your home for the fall holidays yet? I decided to do a little something different for this fall. Instead of spending a lot of money on fake pumpkins and other decorations that I would later need to find storage space for – I went a more ‘natural’ route with a little help […]
The past two weekends have been busy ones in my household, or should I say, gardens. The beginning of October signals great planting weather for all types of plants and vegetables. As a result, I have been busy planting cool season vegetables in my edible gardens as well as sprucing up my container plantings. Introducing […]
Is you home decorated for fall yet? I am still working on getting my house ready for the fall holidays. Normally, I am content to buy a single pumpkin and set it in the middle of my dining room table. But, after seeing my mother’s beautiful fall centerpiece (above), I decided to try to do […]
Oftentimes when I am called to help a homeowner with their landscape, they pose a problem and/or a question about a certain area in their landscape. I will share a few with, you now and then, in the hopes that I can help those of you who may have a similar situation. Okay, let’s first […]
Have you ever paused to think about the events of the previous month? I seldom do, but the other day I was going through my recent photos and was surprised at how busy the past month of September was. Here are a few snapshots from September… My daughter, Rachele, graduated from her Navy Seabee School […]
Welcome to the second edition of “AZ Plant Lady Drive By: What’s Wrong With My Landscape”. Where you able to figure out what was wrong with the landscape, below? I got some great answers and they were all right, BUT only one person noticed one problem that others hadn’t. Here are a few of the […]
A few weeks ago, I introduced a new feature called “AZ Plant Lady Drive By”, where I show a photo of a landscape that I have driven by that has something wrong. My goal is to help you avoid making the same mistake in your own landscape. The response to my last one was overwhelming, […]
I don’t have a favorite tree….I actually have quite a few favorites. But, if I had to pick one that I like most of all, it would be the ‘Desert Museum’ Palo Verde (Parkinsonia x ‘Desert Museum’). Remarkable Hybrid Origins of the ‘Desert Museum’ Palo Verde This Palo Verde is natural hybrid, resulting from 3 […]
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