MEXICAN - Garden Guide
The Ingenuity of Fire Pits: Tips on Buying, Use, and Safety Precautions
I know youve already felt it: a cool settling into the summer night and the dimming of our trusty blue sky coming earlier and earlier. With summer too quickly reaching a close and cool Autumn on its way, its time to spark...
Gardening is for the Birds
A couple of years ago someone asked me how I viewed my back yard. I told him that I thought it was the best room in the house. Actually, when we found this house the best selling point was the back yard. Yes, we are outdoors...
Have Green In Your Yard All Year With The Ever Green Evergreen
For landscape artists, green is the ideal background. It supplies tranquility and is cool in the eye. By staring at a green landscape, the eyes relax and are soothed.Because ever green shrubs are in constant foliage all year...
Great Looking Desert Evergeen Shrubs
Agave or Mescal (spanish): This plant is a beautiful succulent and primarily used for desert landscaping. Very little watering and care it likes gravelly soil and full sun. Several varieties including the americana, parryi and...
How to Give Your Southwestern Backyard a True Southwestern Flair
Lets face it, the Southwestern Backyard is not the same as any other backyard. Try to plant a nice lawn, and you cultivate an expanse of brown crusty dead stuff. Or you will run up a water bill worthy of an Olympic swimming...
Growing Herb Plants in Containers
I love herb plants. I have grown thyme, basil, marjoram, sage, mint, parsley, cilantro, chives, rosemary, oregano and more. My rosemary plant has now made it through two winters and it looks like a small shrub.I love herb...
May Gardening Tips for the Southwest
Use Cypress mulch to help keep roots insulated from the HOT sun. This helps keep moisture in the root zone as well as the keeping weeds down to a minimum.Lantana, red bird of paradise, Oleander, and other winter damaged plants...
Five Plants for your Desert Backyard
Living in the desert Southwest can be interesting, exhilarating, and sometimes trying.
Take for example, your Desert Backyard. Sure, you may want to have an emerald green expanse of lawn and trees, offset by a lovely rose...
Growing Flowers for Fun or Profit
As the micro eco-farming movement continues, flower carts from mini flower farms: backyard to half an acre, are springing up on small town street corners and near busy urban coffee shops. U-pick flower patches and honor-system...
Container Gardening
Should the joy of gardening be reserved for those with a garden? Certainly not! You'll reap great happiness, plus pretty flowers and tasty vegetables, with container gardening. There are all types of gardeners, living in all...
Xeriscaping Plants - What are They? Find Out Here
It is actually a landscaping technique using native plants (native to your community) to help beautify your garden, backyard, or business property. And at the same time help conserve water and protect the surrounding...
Care of Palm Trees
The Mediterranean, California, and Mexican fan palm will survive the southwestern droughts and are seen throughout the southwestern landscape. However the Mexican fan palm will struggle if temperatures drop into the lower...
An Outdoor Fireplace Plan And Design
For those who are looking at an outdoor fireplace plan and design, you are not alone. Building outdoor fire pits and fireplaces is what's in style these days and has really been catching on lately. You can find outdoor...
Growing Dahlias Successfully
Growing dahlia tubers is one of the traditional garden activities because this Mexican native has won gardeners hearts with its ease of growth and massive blooms. This is one of the most sold plants for summer blooms.Dahlias...
Fall Colors for Southwestern Planting
Fall Colors for Southern New Mexico, East Texas and most of the southwest. I have already seen Raywood ash trees start to change slightly, getting ready to bring on it's vivid purple/burgandy show. Certain crape myrtles are...
How to Create a Butterfly Garden
People who love to garden also tend to enjoy watching butterflies flitting about. After all, butterflies are just as pretty to look at as the flowers that they visit. Gardeners can entice even more butterflies to visit their...
The Many Types Of Palm Trees
There are thousands of species of Palm Trees. They are considered to be tropical in nature, but most people are not aware that cold hardy palms may be planted outside without any visible damage from temperatures as cold as...
Container Gardening Shrubs
Lack of space is no excuse for not having a garden - you can make a perfectly good garden on your patio, decking, balcony - or even on a window sill. Container gardening is very easy and can be extremely cheap. Ready to...
Garden Room Basics
When gardening, sooner or later you will hear about garden rooms and decide you would like to try creating one or two or more. But just what does it mean to have a garden room? How do you make garden rooms?Basically, a garden...
Ornamental Grasses Six Of The Very Best
Ornamental grasses for dry gravel and prairie style plantings. My six very best recomendations.If you have ever thought about a drought resistant low maintenances garden with tough disease free easy to grow plants but still...