Tag: horticulture
A Gourd-geous Fall Harvest
It’s decorative gourd season! For many, the term ‘gourd’ evokes images of the bizarre, colorful novelty crops that appear by the bushel-load in farmers markets and grocery stores each October and just as suddenly disappear after Thanksgiving. For warm climates like...
Spook-tacular Plants
Even plants can get into the Halloween spirit! Here are Desert Botanical Garden’s “spooky” plant picks either for their name, behavior or appearance. Have fun trying to find these on your next visit. The sinister-looking creeping devil (Stenocereus eruca)...
Summer Plant SOS
Record breaking heat is hard on us, imagine what’s going on with your plant. Here are some helpful tips to provide them relief: If your plants are turning yellow, place shade cloth over the plants until temperatures are in the 90s. Since we haven’t...
