Tent Caterpillars

Tent caterpillars hatch in early spring just as our aspen leaves are unfolding…

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Basic Santa Fe Perennial Garden Design

We all drive by those gorgeous, colorful perennial gardens and wish they were ours.

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How do I care for decorative grass?

How should I care for these at the beginning of the year before they start growing green again? …

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Container gardening and why it means so much to me

The sticky smell of petunias, the cinnamon flavor of the snapdragons…

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Lilacs

There was a year, not so long ago, in 1993, when the lilacs signaled the start of my life.

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Container Planting at Home

Every year is different, but this year we chose snap dragons, plum petunias, wine petunias, pink angelonia, pink and red geraniums, dusty miller, whit alyssum for the edges, red and purple verbena, trailing sweet potato vine in both green and purple, euphorbia, and, my special secret, dahlia bulbs.

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How not to prune fruit trees, especially in Santa Fe

Yes, you should prune crossing branches to let light into the tree, but you don’t need to cut most of the tree away.

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Spring 2015

The first week of April brought amazing blooming plum trees…

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Gardens: Why do we do it?

What is it in our need as a human to have this kind of beauty?…

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