Do This for Continuous Blooms on your Potted Flowers

Summer Easy-Care Pot with Vinca. Continuous looms on your potted flowers

 Continuous Blooms on Your Potted Flowers Summer always comes to our desert homes, and with it, the intense heat we’ve come to expect. While the temperatures can be tiring, I’ve found small ways to escape and ensure continuous blooms in my garden when we don’t leave for extensive holidays. We can take a brief four-hour…

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Container Gardening 101 for New Desert Gardeners

Two pots against a wall in a desert back yard The Potted Desert

Rather you are a new or experienced gardener, it’s always good to come back to the basics. I wrote this article with new desert gardeners in mind, but everyone will benefit from these tips. Picture yourself in the Sonoran Desert, where the sun reigns supreme, and rainfall is a rare visitor. Knowing your environment is…

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Desert Container Gardening – Patience required

Initial October Planting white pot #1

A couple of years ago, my winter garden was very frustrating. In the fall, we put five large pots into our 18-foot raised bed, making it easier for me to tend them since they were now raised to a more easy-to-reach level. I devised a splendid plan (in my mind, at least!) and installed the…

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Winter Desert Flower Container Garden – Easy Care Design

One color ez-care wintr desert pot filled with a Star Jasmine vine, Pansies and Alyssum

1 Color EZ Design for a Desert Winter Pot This winter desert pot design is labeled as an easy-care combination because it has three characteristics. “Leave-In Perennial The vine, Star Jasmine can remain in this pot for years, saving you money and time when you don’t have to replace it each season. “Many Options Color” You…

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January in your Desert Container Garden

Winter Pots by the Potted Desert

Greetings All! Happy New Year! In the above picture are two RBP’s, aka Really Big Pots, filled with winter color. The front pot has white Petunias, yellow Snaps. yellow Calendula and the pink flowers are Schizanthus, a winter plant that grows huge! The back pot has purple Petunias, Dusty Miller, and purple Osteospermums. The pots…

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February in Your Desert Container Garden

Kale with Red Cyclmen in a Desert Winter Potted Garden The Potted Desert

Do not let a warm week in February allow you to think that winter is over. How’s your winter been so far this year? Cold nights and cool days? Are flowers and vegetables slow to grow? Limited rain, if any? Snow or hail? We can and most likely will have freezing temperatures this month and…

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