Archive for December, 2006

Tufa Rock Containers

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

The other evening a group of us were sitting around the dinner table enjoying a great meal, and being surrounded by large plants in containers. Some of us were actually dining under the branches and the conversation revolved around the impossibility of moving large heavy pots containing trees. Another topic was how to prune the […]

Care Of Tools

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

December and the New Year is a good time for a chore that we often avoid because we are busy with other things. Yet it is an opportunity to enlist the help of visiting family members and friends. It???s called Seasonal Tool Care Time..It???s a slack time for actual gardening and the tools themselves are […]

Ants And Plant Dormancy

Friday, December 15th, 2006

// // // // // // // With the night-time temperatures we are getting, lower than forty degrees in some parts of Tucson, you???d expect everything that lives to be dormant. Many of our trees and shrubs, […]

Frost Damage

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Many of us were caught by surprise at the end of last month when we got a mere two nights of frost. Our plants, too, were surprised because they had been enjoying mild sunny weather and were not expecting anything as cold as it got.
Don???t panic, because our plants are not panicking. They may look […]

Recent Reader Questions and Some Winter Desert Color

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Reader Questions
Q: I found your earlier article on dates very interesting but I’m not sure how much I need to thin the many bunches I have on my tree. I’ve lost your article and I wonder if you could please go over the procedure again.
A: Better than that, I now send you a […]


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