Every week one our desert gardeners provides expert advice on making your desert garden bloom. They'll take you to some of their favorite landscapes in Las Vegas and introduce you to horticultural experts working in Southern Nevada.
Angela O'Callaghan is Associate Professor, Nevada Cooperative Extension - Specialist in Social Horticulture. Norm Schilling is owner of Schilling Horticulture Group in Las Vegas. His prior experience includes horticulture supervisor at UNLV and lead groundskeeper at the Gardens at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve (formerly the Desert Demonstration Garden). He's an ISA certified arborist and teaches a variety of horticulture and tree care topics. You're invited to submit questions to Desert Bloom.
Check out Norm Schilling's list of Wonderful Plants on the Cheap and Easy and Norm's Favorite Desert Trees.
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Norm Schilling discusses the importance of trees for air quality and cooling urban areas due to climate change. -
2024 will be remembered for record heat, which hasn’t gone away yet. -
Sage is a lot more than the spice you occasionally sprinkle over all kinds of food. As Norm Schilling tells us, sages of all kinds are around us, and they love the desert. -
Norm Schilling shares his expertise on growing and caring for bougainvillea in Southern Nevada. -
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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…
