Home & Garden

Some flowers actually seem to enjoy our summer heat. We hear about one.

When I was revamping my PowerPoint presentation for MASTER GARDENER training the other day, I came across a slide that I’d entitled “What can you grow in…

When we talk about our landscaping, we usually distinguish it from our gardens, which are of course full of delicious vegetables. Why do we make such a…

When the soil is frozen solid in other parts of the country, our soil isn’t. Now there are times when the soil in our area is just so hard to dig that it…

When it comes to Halloween-themed plants, there are some devilish choices.

This has definitely been the year of the unexpected.I can’t imagine how I’d survive this ongoing quarantine if I didn’t have a garden. Even if I didn’t…

People may still be thinking about what to put around their homes to replace lawns. Lawns used to be the go-to solution where children and dogs could…

Once temperatures start inching toward triple digits, many Southern Nevadans put away the garden implements until the cool days of fall. Understandable,…

There’s a lot of beautiful flowers native to the desert. When I told friends and family back East that cactus produced lovely blossoms, they were stunned.…

When I talk to people from other parts of the country about living in a “desert”, the first thing they usually mention is how hot they imagine it would…