Feeling a little envious of those magnificent cactus flowers you're seeing around? Norm Schilling tells us how to get them in this edition of Desert Bloom.

Take a small step for big rewards this Spring. Norm Schilling is in the yard with that advice.

Norm Schilling tackles some easy pruning to put his pomegranates into pole position.

So here we are, in the heart of winter, or what we desert denizens call winter, and that means it’s time to start planning the spring garden. I spent the holidays in way upstate New York.

Norm isn’t so much concerned with recent low temperatures. It’s the wind that threatens damage.

You've planned ahead. Now's the time to cut down that tree. It's only taken a few years, but Norm's been planning for a fall when he can take out a tree.

Fall is a great time to add plants to your yard, Norm Schilling has a list for your next trip to the nursery.

Like many Mojave gardeners, I have a couple of dwarf trees, plums and nectarines, for my own fruit in the late spring.