Blue Moon Community Garden is one of 17 gardens overseen by the nonprofit Community Gardens of Tucson. Through regular events for gardeners an…
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Watch now: These beautiful native plants will be a great addition to your Tucson garden. Video by Dominika Heusinkveld/Arizona Daily Star.
The late Miles Thompson, who had an M.A. in classical antiquity and an academic background in Graeco-Roman archaeology, began sculpting gargoy…
Make more plants from the ones you already have. This video shows you how to propagate your plant using cuttings. Video by Dominika Heusinkvel…
Inspiration on how to use desert-adapted plants in a formal garden design in the Tucson desert. Video by Dominika Heusinkveld/Arizona Daily Star
This is the latest installment in To Be Blunt, the Question-&-Answer series that aims to put the spotlight on the people, places and compa…
VIDEO EN INGLES: Los Jardines Botánicos de Tucsón están compuestos por 17 jardines individuales con más de 4,000 especies disponibles para que…
The Tucson Botanical Gardens are made up of 17 individual gardens with over 4,000 species available for the public to visit and view every wee…
Volunteers at the Nuestra Tierra Learning Garden, at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, build one of four shade huts aimed to bring …
Brandi Fenton Memorial Park is a Tucson landmark located at 3482 East River Road. The park includes three soccer fields, covered basketball co…
If your plants aren't taken care of correctly, a heat wave could be disastrous for your garden.
The El Día de San Juan Fiesta takes place each year on June 24, the feast day of San Juan Bautista, Saint John the Baptist, the patron saint o…
With the month of May coming to a close, you might have noticed a number of lawns that your neighbors have been diligent in maintaining in the…
Anne Andrews, a volunteer with the Friends of the Cele Peterson Rose Garden, deadheads roses as visitors stop to smell the flowers. The garden…
Take a stroll down the garden path with a look at eight vintage garden flowers that exude charm and aroma.
If you have a green thumb and a pet, you’ll want to make sure that the garden plants and materials you choose are safe. Here's what to know.
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In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play “Our Town,” heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes, then common, are, indeed, wonderfully fragranced. Yet somehow, they’ve fallen out of favor in American gardens. Many onetime garden staples from the Victorian era through the 1950s have been replaced with hybrids and compact bedding plants, many of which lack the charm, aroma and simple nostalgia of their predecessors.
Mature perennials in your garden are a valuable resource. Most perennials can be dug up and divided, yielding two, three or even four splits. And each of these can be replanted elsewhere. Even better, trade with other gardeners, swapping divisions of your perennial for varieties in their gardens that you’d like to try.
The foundation of any happy garden is the soil. In fact, some might argue that a gardener’s job isn’t to grow plants but to cultivate healthy …