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Las Vegas gardener Norm Schilling shares the easiest flowers to grow in the desert — from self-seeding wildflowers to fragrant citrus, aloes, and native blooms.

Las Vegas arborist Norm Schilling explains how to prune trees for desert wind, why most people remove too much, and how to spot a bad tree trimmer before it's too late.

The other day I was speaking with some folks who were complaining about trying to grow plants here in the Mojave Desert. After the first comments — “You…

I was talking with someone about roses the other day. Ok, we were both bragging about our roses, and how well they grow, despite our challenging…

Non-functional turf grass isn’t legal in lots of locations anymore, thank goodness. Green is nice, but does a green lawn in front of a bank or a lawyer’s…

For a while, I’ve been thinking about doing a Desert Bloom segment on weeds, just weeds in general, but there’s so much to talk about with these plants…

Much as I love life here in Southern Nevada, our springtime is remarkably short. You scarcely have time to get your vegetable seeds into the ground before…

In the dead of winter, so many trees look skeletal – bare branches with dead leaves on the ground surrounding them. Even here in the desert southwest, you…

Most of us don’t have big acreage for our gardens. That’s why we try to pack so much into them. Sometimes, though, we do get carried away, putting the…

Here in the great American Southwest, we have an amazing set of growing conditions, as I mentioned to a family member who lives in way upstate New York.…