Your Southeast Pinal County Master Gardeners are pleased to invite you to our Community Education Presentation at 1 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke R…
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This garden shows how much variety and visual interest you can get with just cacti and succulents.
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Inspiration on how to use desert-adapted plants in a formal garden design in the Tucson desert. Video by Dominika Heusinkveld/Arizona Daily Star
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The use of boulders in your yard will helps accent the landscape, while plants native to Southern Arizona, like agaves, will be able to surviv…
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Bob Wilson and Bill McKeekin take a snack break while counting saguaros. They have plenty of help: More than 300 volunteers are believed to be…
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Using tape measures, clinometers and trigonometry, volunteers record the height of the saguaros they encounter. Here, Heidi Searle looks throu…
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Judie Schumacher, center, and Craig Fobes use folding rulers to measure the height of a saguaro. With a combined estimated 1.8 million saguaro…
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In 2010, the census team collected data on more than 20,000 individual cactuses, then used computer modeling to come up with a parkwide popula…
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Judie Schumacher, center, and Craig Fobes use folding rulers to measure the height of a saguaro during a cactus count at Saguaro National Park…
