Bring a Bit of the Tropics to Your Yard with Tropical Plants
The desert Southwest, which often receives blazing sun for months and less than 10 inches of rain a year, isn’t…
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Wild Ones Offers Las Cruces a Free Native Garden Design
Wild Ones has introduced a free to use, professionally designed, native garden plan specific to the Las Cruces ecoregion. The…
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Health and Beauty Benefits of the Butterfly Pea Flower
On a Caribbean cruise, I went off on the proverbial “three-hour tour.” Unlike Gilligan, I did get back to the…
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Keep Cool in Your Garden
Those of us who have lived in the desert Southwest for years truly understand the intensity of the sun and…
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Amaryllis for the Holidays and Beyond
Once an exotic treasure native to South America, the amaryllis bulb is now sold universally in box stores, garden centers,…
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Take Your Cooking to a New Level with Mint
Resiliency is defined as a supremely positive quality by which one demonstrates one’s ability to recover from or adjust to…
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The Las Cruces Native Plant Society Helps You Plant Local
Whether you have lived in Las Cruces for decades or are new to the area, you may be curious about…
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Local Garden Shops: It’s Time to Get Planting
There’s nothing like warm spring days to inspire a trip to the garden shop to freshen up the plantings in…
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Growing Irises in the Desert
I’ll admit I have not always been an enthusiast of irises, including everyone’s favorite bearded irises. In my view, their…
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