Our desert gardeners provide 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 the 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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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… -
Take a small step for big rewards this Spring. Norm Schilling is in the yard with that advice. -
This might be the year that you start growing your own – vegetables.Getting your spring garden ready can be as simple or as complex as you want. You are… -
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… -
Norm isn’t so much concerned with recent low temperatures. It’s the wind that threatens damage. Between proper pruning and adjusting your water schedule…
