Category: Tucson
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Catching Up ; Our Little Veggie Garden
Sometimes you get so behind on a project, you just don’t know where to begin. That’s what happened here. I’ve been waiting for the time to write about our new garden and chicken pen extension. Time for detailed posts never came. Change of plan. That’s what gardeners do best, we change things. Right? Below is the long-story-short, told…
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Garden Planter Combination ~Joy, Gladness, & Spendor
Our entire garden space is visible from our kitchen, office, and family room. It is a living, moving, breathing, singing addition to our daily lives. As such, we keep it groomed, fed, and full of color. This planter has spent over a dozen years on our patio. It contains my favorite combination of flowers: geranium,…
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What To Do About Freeze Damage?
Many plants in Tucson and surrounding areas suffered damage from below freezing temps, recently. We recommend patience when dealing with the aftermath, but in some cases there is no doubt about what to do. Below is a severely damaged impatiens plant that was happily growing and blooming in a pot on our patio. In it’s…
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Our Giant Swallowtail Story
About a month ago I plucked a gooey Orange Dog Caterpillar from one of our baby Clementine orange trees. Kinda gross, huh? Yeah, before I touched it with a stick to make it poke out its tiny orange horns, it looked like a bird dropping. This ugly masquerade is to fool birds so they don’t…
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My Summertime Friend
Just after checking out of the office, yesterday, Rain started to knock on my roof with his silvery knuckles. ” Hello! ” Was the friendly greeting, “I’m back. Can you come out and play?” A visitation from Rain is an EVENT in Tucson. Knowing it would be brief, I ran –yes– RAN — for my…
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Residents Visitors and Invaders
The natural world is a wild place. Many of us do not notice how wild, because we have built our habitats to keep ourselves safe and comfortable, insulating our lives from its wild elements. I’m happy to report that in our 36 years gardening in Tucson’s suburbs in the Sonoran desert, I’ve never seen a rattlesnake,…
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Finding Your Way at Night
Nothing says, “Welcome home,” like lighting. In the “olden days” a loved one might place a candle in the window to guide you home in the dark. Not anymore… Now we have low voltage lighting to help us find the door. Here is some lighting we did for a client recently. They live on a…