What have we been up to at work lately? www. mccumberfinegardens.com.  Lots of terracing, patios and containers.

It is built with the intention to share information and share the joy, anguish and humor of gardening in the high altitude desert of Santa Fe and the surrounding areas.

This pesto is not for the faint of heart, but none of my recipes will be. We all know how to throw together the ordinary. THis will use enough cilantro to make it count as your vegetable serving, and enable you to use some other herbs too.

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

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

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.