Your journey to creating or maintaining a water-wise landscape is now even easier thanks to the resources provided by the city of Phoenix Water Services Department. Phoenix Water recently collaborated with design experts from Arizona State University to produce free, easy-to-use desert landscape, or xeriscape, design guides that anyone can download. The Desert Landscapes in Your Front Yard guides were …
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Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced gardener, growing food in the desert can be difficult. This class provides advice and tips on how to grow desert edibles in your garden that adapt better to our desert climate. You’ll learn how to design your garden to be water efficient, how to prep your soil, become more aware of different varieties …
Read MoreLearn how to effectively garden in the desert in tiny spaces. Register here
Read MoreNothing is tastier than a fresh meal made from homegrown vegetables. Learn which plants do the best here and some gardening dos and don’ts for Arizona that will help your plants thrive and provide this spring. To register click here and look under “Green Living” or call 623.773.7137
Read MoreJoin Master Gardener Cathy Rymer and discover the secrets to successfully plant, irrigate and grow vegetables in our desert environment! You will also learn to tell the good bugs from the bad and how to safely eliminate the ones we don’t want in our gardens. This FREE Water-Smart Workshop will be held on Saturday, Sept. 9, from 9 to 11 a.m. in …
Read MoreAloes are striking succulents from southern and eastern Africa that offer some of the best color for Arizona gardens with their impressive and long-lasting show of flowers during the winter and early spring. Aloes have numerous forms ranging from low groundcovers to treelike species. Small clustering forms work well in containers and the tree forms work well as accents or …
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Spring wildflower season is one of the desert’s most colorful periods. But planning for those multicolored displays in the spring requires planning in the Fall. The prime time to plant spring flowers in the low desert areas of southern Arizona is during late September through early December. Most spring-blooming wildflowers benefit from the cold temperatures of winter and begin their …
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