Our goal is good homes, good food, sweet leisure. Different plants prefer different places, and when plants are growing, everywhere the soil improves; and more water is held in the soil. Shade trees are worth many air conditioners; windbreaks are worth many heaters. We all want a forest of food. Give the rain that your home and driveway sheds to your trees and gardens, and make your home beautiful and comfortable with native plants that can thrive on their own once established. Fruit and nut trees overhead, currents, berries, grapes and roses below, herbs and vegetables below them, carrots and beets down under.
One of the very first things to bloom in your yard for spring, Winter Jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) illuminates the often dry, brown landscapes common in cooler months. Cheerful yellow flowers erupt along slender, bright green stems. This is a great plant for covering steep slopes, spilling over a...
Need a drought tolerant, fast growing, winsome windscreen? A batch of young Afghan pines await your yard or perimeter to stretch an upwards of 60’ and provide a towering green presence year round. Cultivated for a generation at Archer Farms in Texas, they are the absolute favorite for folks who...
Veggie starts are beginning to roll in. This week we have Ishikura Bunching Onions, Tatsoi Mustard, Dwarf Blue Kale, Red Cabbage and Russian Red Kale starts. We will be getting more vegetable plants in the coming weeks to feed your desire for backyard produce. Otherwise, we are fully stocked on seed...
Beautiful and big xeric plants just landed this morning! A plethora of drought tolerant flowering shrubs, ornamental vines, and low water shrubby trees are now available—inclu ding the biggest desert willows we may have ever had! Pictured here are the ever popular Webber Agave (Agave webberii). A...
Happy Saturday, spring is here! It’s a wonderful time to be in the yard and begin your plantings for the year to beautify your space with native, and low water plants. These daffodils come up in March, heralding the warmer months. While you can’t plant these now, there are plenty of late spring,...