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Vitex – A Lilac Alternative: Also Called Texas Lilac or Chaste Tree

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Plan Now for Spring Gardens: It's Time to Choose Plants

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The VERT Garden: An Innovative Garden Concept

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Veggie Gardening in Hot Areas: Long or Short Growing Periods?

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Plant-Derived Insecticides: Many Organic Insecticides Come From Plants and Fossils

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Organic Pest Controls: Controlling unwanted garden guests organically

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Allelopathic Plants: Lone Killers: These Plants Compete Chemically with Other Plants

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Salt Cedars: Beautiful but destructive

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Waterwise Sages: Varieties Make Sages Great Garden Plants

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Major Pinyon Diseases: Names, Symptoms and Treatment

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Pinyon Insect Enemies: Insect Larvae Are Destructive

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Planting and Caring for Pinyon: Fragrant and Beautiful

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Helpful Hints for Drip Systems: Tips for Design and Installation

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Types of Drip Systems: Emitters make the difference

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Where Do The Drips Go? How to Place Drip Irrigation Emitters

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How to Set Up Drip Systems: It’s Easy and Inexpensive

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Waterwise Drip Irrigation: Using Water More Efficiently

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How Plants Use Water: Wetting Fronts, Transpiration, Root Zones and Photosynthesis

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Is Your Garden Soil Too Salty? Salinity Levels Can Affect Plants

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What is a Watershed? Rainwater Harvesting Series

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Artemesia: Artemisia ludoviciana

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Waterwise Gardening: A Guide

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Mesquite Trees: Prosopis pubescens, Prosopis glandulosa and Prosopis velutina

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Collecting Rainwater: Rainwater Harvesting Series

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Texas Pistachio: Pistacia texana

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Building a Desert Rainwater Garden: Harvesting Rainwater Series

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Using Rainwater Makes Sense: Rainwater Harvesting Series

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Indian Mallow: A desert beauty

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Trees in a Desert Landscape: Adding “bones” to a garden

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Big Tooth Maple: A lovely, drought-tolerant tree

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Growing Desert Willows: This plant is actually a large shrub and not a willow

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Wind and Heat in Desert Gardens: Never Underestimate the Amount of Damage that Can Occur

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Water and Desert Gardens: A precious commodity in arid regions

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Is Your Garden in an Arid Region? Or is it truly in a desert?

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Definition of a Desert: What is a desert??

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1934 Dustbowl Created Desert: Millions of people displaced

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Organic Matter for Composting: No different in the desert

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Compost for a Desert Garden: Requiring a litte more water, and a little more care

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Composting Equipment: What’s needed to create desert compost.

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Composting – Emulating Nature: Providing nutrition for a desert garden.

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Soil – Earth’s Living Layer: How soil is created.

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Chupacabras in the Southwest? Or something worse?

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Gayfeather for Garden Color: Gayfeather adds a new dimension to desert gardens

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Four-Wing Saltbush: Providing food and shelter for man and animal for millenia

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Apache Plume Striking Native Plant: A beautiful, wild member of the rose family

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Raising Apache Plume: A Hardy Plant Native to southwestern North America

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Growing Purple Coneflowers: A Native Plant for Summer and Fall Blooms

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Visiting Desert Botanical Gardens: Tour Them or Take Classes About Desert Flora

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Building A Dry Streambed: Erosion Control in The Desert Garden

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10 Ways to Easier Gardening: Desert Gardening Doesn’t Need to be Backbreaking

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Russian Sage in The Desert: It's not Russian nor Sage, but a beautiful plant nevertheless

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Top Ornamental Grasses: For containers or naturalized in desert gardens

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Desert Plants and Wildlife: Native Plants can be beautiful and sustain wildlife too.

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Top Ten Bamboos for the Garden: Desert-Hardy Bamboos

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Plan a Fall Desert Garden Now: To give yourself plenty of time to prepare

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Germinating Pinyon Pine Seeds: Not as easy as you think

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Desert Homes, Lush Landscapes: Water-wise Gardener Numbers Growing

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Native Grasses as Groundcovers: In Desert Gardens

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Growing Herbs and Spices: For the Desert Garden

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How Do Groundcovers Work: For Desert Gardens?

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Desert Gardening Expert Speaks I: Judith Phillips Discusses Gardening in Desert Environs

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Desert Gardening Expert Speaks II: Judith Phillips names favorite desert plants

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Harvest Desert Vegetables Part II: A continuation of best times to pick them

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Harvest Desert Vegetables Part I: There are optimum times to pick them

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Tomatoes in Desert Gardens Part II: Desert Tomatoes Plants Need Physical Support and TLC

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Tomatoes in Desert Gardens Part I: Planting, growing and harvesting them

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Pests in a Desert Vegetable Garden: Controlling them is important

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Watering Desert Vegetables: Irrigation is the key to an abundant desert garden

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Planting A Desert Vegetable Garden: Timing of plantings is important

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Fertilizing Vegetable Gardens: Making the Desert Grow Food

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Soil in Desert Vegetable Gardens: Desert Soils Not Very Fertile

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Planning A Desert Vegetable Garden: Plan first, then plant!

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Desert Climates and Vegetables: Climates differ from area to area in the desert

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Desert Vegetable Gardens: Grow herbs, cucumbers and even tomatoes in the desert

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World Ecosystems in Danger: Xeriscape Conference Speaker Gives Warnings

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Transplant Shock in The Garden: Some plants may show stress when transplanted

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How to Start Seeds: Want to know how to raise plants from seeds in your desert garden?

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When to Plant Desert Garden Seeds: They shouldn’t all be planted at the same time

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Seedling Containers: Buy them or use your imagination

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Growing Media for Desert Seeds: They’re not all the same

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Seeds for Desert Gardens II: Understanding Your Environment

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Seeds for Desert Gardens I: Choosing and handling seeds

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Hummingbirds as Desert Pollinators: Beautiful and beneficial, hummingbirds important to desert plants

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Bats Pollinate Desert Plants: After-dark Pollinator

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Bees as Desert Plant Pollinators: They’re not all honey bees

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How Desert Plants Get Pollinated: There are some very diverse methods

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Pruning Desert Shrubs: Evergreens and deciduous shrubs

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How to Prune Desert Plants: Twigs, Small Branches, and Thick Branches

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Pruning Desert Plants: To prune or not to prune?

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Planning Next Year’s Desert Garden: Cabin Fever Sprouts Creativity

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From Desert To Oasis: Getting Back to Basics

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What is Apidae? Bees, bees, bees!

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What is Pollination? Sexual reproduction in plants.

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What is pollen? Necessary for flowering plants

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What is Nectar? What the Greek gods drank

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What is the Chihuahuan Desert? One of largest deserts in North America

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What is the Sonoran Desert? Also named the Gila Desert

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What is Germination? The way plants reproduce sexually

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What is sexual plant propagation? It’s really about the birds and the bees.

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What is asexual plant propagation? Also called Vegetative Propagation

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