Beavertail Cactus (Opuntia basilaris) Soft, pastel colored flowers ready for Easter. But on a cactus? Absolutely! Each year, an event occurs in the surrounding desert about the same time as Easter. Beautiful spots of bright color start to appear on the hillsides of the desert. Cacti everywhere are beginning to bloom. Isn’t it amazing that […]
Nasturtium From time to time, I receive emails from readers of my blog who ask me a gardening question or two. Well, I love talking about plants and helping people with their gardens, so it works out well. Earlier this week, I was so surprised to find an email from a reader who had sent […]
As a child, I was a voracious reader….I still am. One of my favorite authors was C.S. Lewis. My mother introduced me to the first book of the “Chronicles of Narnia“, The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. As soon as I had finished the first chapter, I was hooked. I couldn’t wait to read […]
Well as promised, this is the last installment of the creation of our vegetable garden. The journey has been quite a bit longer then we had anticipated due to some unexpected interruptions….a dead car battery & a broken arm. Now we had all of our materials and my husband was going to get started on […]
In yesterday’s post, I am sure that I left you all on the edge of your seats, waiting to see how we fared after our van, which was fully loaded with supplies for our new vegetable garden, wouldn’t start in the parking lot of our local big box store. It turned out that it was […]
Our first foray into vegetable gardening, as a family, was well on it’s way to becoming reality…. the site had been selected, the seeds purchased, the time set aside in our schedule and then….life happened. I had a vegetable garden as a child. My father made raised planters for me and my siblings. We would […]
A horticulturist in a plant nursery is much like a kid in a candy store, which can be VERY dangerous….. This is where I found myself a couple of weeks ago after spending the day walking through the beautiful gardens of “The Living Desert“. The gardens themselves, were absolutely spectacular and I posted about the […]
The past couple of days have been filled with the normal things that make up my life….taking care of my family, landscape consults, blogging, etc. But, one of the things that I love and sometimes don’t love about life are the unexpected things that sometimes cross my daily path. First the unexpected things that I […]
Kind of a weird title for a post, but it fits all that I am going to try to fit into this one…. Earlier this week, we packed up the kids into our trusty minivan and took the long drive to Double S Farms….okay, it took us all of 5 minutes to get there. We […]
Picture an old rose bush that had been neglected over the years. With new owners now in charge of the garden, this rose received much needed attention back in January. Some of you may remember my post “An Overgrown, Nameless Rose” back in January. This old rose bush graced the front garden of Double S […]
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