Their areas of origin and how they have evolved make the watering requirements for mesic plants and xeric plants vastly different.
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Pomegranate handles heat from a hot wall better than either apricot or peach. Anything you plant there should be heat tolerant.
EDDHA can be a miracle iron application with yellowing citrus when all your other efforts fail.
Never spray a plant that is flowering with anything. That’s a death knell to bees and their colonies.
Lincoln County’s Kershaw-Ryan State Park has a wading pool, camping for tents and RVs, hiking and birds aplenty.
Major pruning of ornamental trees and shrubs is done during the winter months after leaves have fallen. Minor pruning (making a single cut with a hand pruner) can be done anytime.
You can hike, golf, swim and even play in the snow all in the same day, and it’s only about four hours from Southern Nevada.
There are two strikes against citrus growing well in the Mojave Desert. The first is their variable tolerance to freezing temperatures during the winter. The second strike is that oftentimes citrus trees flower in early spring when very light freezing temperatures are possible. Tolerance to these freezing temperatures is practically nil.
Q: The leaves on my fig tree appear burned after this rain. I foliar sprayed it with neem oil and soap and fish protein isolate. These trees were planted last fall and mulched with 1 foot of woodchips and looked amazing until now. They are watered three times each week in the summer.
Q: Look what my husband did? He cut my saguaro below the seams before consulting with me. I know it looked kind of sick (the tree, not my husband), but he cut it. I am going to cut those chunks all the way down.