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When August rolls around, waterwise gardeners begin to take some action for a bountiful fall harvest.

Planting vegetables in desert areas needs to be timed with climate, date of last frosts, and other factors.

Salt cedars were introduced into North America in the early 1800s as an ornamental. But since that time, it has wreaked untold havoc on North American waterways.

Don't pull out those spent tomato plants and relegate them to the compost heap just yet. They've got one more use before recycling.

In a desert garden, do some homework before choosing a tree.

When you plant seeds which you will transplant outside in your garden depends upon many factors.

There are two things that determine your success as an organic gardener - soil and weather. You can change soil; you cannot change weather.

Here is a resource for Desert Garden readers, along with links to definitions and articles on Desert Gardens topics. Please feel free to use this list.

Texas Mountain Laurel is a small tree, great for an accent plant in the garden, a container-grown patio specimen, or even as a stand-alone feature.

Add the vigorous native fall flowering groundsel shrub to your natural habitat garden in southeastern coastal or piedmont regions.

There are millions, perhaps billions of bacteria and fungi that come into contact with plants every day.

An easy-to-care-for, tough perennial, purple sage is drought-tolerant and provides attractive color and accent to water wise gardens.

Desert sand verbena begins spreading across the ground in mats after late-winter rains wet the soil.

Trees can supply a merger of love, good wishes and functional design in a home landscape. Here are some examples of what I've planted.

A beautiful succulent, aloe is very distantly related to agave and yucca. A much closer relative is asphodel.