Q: Can you recommend some cut flowers that I can take from my garden that will stay fresh for a long time in a vase? I like to bring flowers to my husband’s gravesite and it seems the lilacs and rhododendrons that I bring wilt in just a day or two.
– T. S., Kirkland
M.B.: First, [...]
Despite the ongoing drought and lack of spring rains, wildflowers are abundant along some riparian areas of Yavapai County.
One of the most easily accessible areas to view a variety of wildflowers right now is the Page Springs area, especially along the trails at the Page Springs Fish Hatchery in the Verde Valley.
The yellow flowers of [...]
I have always had an aversion to spraying pesticides, herbicides, or anything ending with “-cides,” partly out of laziness, partly out of ignorance, but largely out of fear. There was also the example of my mother’s garden, flourishing and feeding us without chemical help.
When I planted the white Rosa Rugosa “Sir Thomas Lipton” in 1996 [...]
Flowers are fine, but sometimes foliage plants last a lot longer on the landscape.
One example, Alternanthera, sometimes called Joseph’s Coat. There are a lot of colors out there too. There are ones that are green, ones that have more yellow in it, and ones that have a lot more red.
There are polka dot plants, also [...]
Even if a seed is planted upside down, the seedling always grows right-way up. How? Plants can actually sense gravity! (Gravity is what makes us fall back down to earth when we jump.) Inside the soil, the roots of the seedling grow towards gravity, while the stem grows away from it. This makes the roots [...]
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