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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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… -
I’d be willing to bet nobody really misses 2020. For a lot of people, gardening was probably one of the few things that felt normal. That’s what’s amazing…
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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.…
