When replacing plants, remember that the number and size of living plants determines your landscape water use and is reflected in your water bill.
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There are lots of different kinds of petunias. For instance, the Madness Summer Series can take the heat, but petunias typically are not known for that.
I was asked by several people about my reaction to the recent change in the USDA’s plant hardiness zone map.
Palm trees do not get borers or sunburned trunks. Borer damage doesn’t happen much probably because they are monocots.
Chilling injury is due to cooler or cold weather (above freezing) temperatures to tropical plants growing outside of — or close to — the fringes of their normal range.
Some composts are rich and full of nutrients. Other times they are not so rich, and the addition of a fertilizer might be needed.
The difference between Southwestern desert plants and other types of plants used for landscaping is the timing, or when the water is applied.
Some plants don’t grow well in rock, and roses are one of them. Nearly all landscape plants in the rose family like soil improvement and a moist environment when planted in desert soils.
Interesting geologic features can be found in this narrow, high-walled canyon, including the rock formations known as mosaic breccia.
Tomatoes stop setting fruit when air temperatures stay consistently above 95 degrees. The tomatoes that set earlier continue to grow and mature when it stays hot. If the air temperature drops below 95 for a couple of days, new flowers will again set fruit.
Q: The top ring of sago palmfronds died after I transplanted it but remain on the plant. I left this brown ring of fronds around the crown of the plant and it looks like new growth coming from the center is OK. Should I trim off the dead fronds without disturbing the crown or just let them fall off?
Chabad Synagogue of Summerlin/Desert Shores was in the process of a major overhaul of its security system well before the anti-Semitic massacre of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Oct. 27.
My class on creating a desert orchard will be held in November for four Saturday afternoon sessions. It begins Nov. 3. You can sign up for it on Eventbrite or contact me and I can arrange it for you.
Q: I have had much success with sugar snap peas, but lately I’ve been planting sugar snap peas and getting snow peas instead. Is it because the seed is old?
Q: I would like to grow my own rhubarb. Could you tell me where I can find the plant or the bulb, and when would be a good season to start?
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One day after emptying the moving truck, Major Kyle Smith and Lt. Colonel Lisa Smith eagerly stepped into their roles as the Salvation Army’s new Southern Nevada Coordinators, ready to kick off the organization’s annual water drive.
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A post office, smoke shop, tattoo parlor and other businesses appear to have been destroyed in the Las Vegas fire.
David Roger, counsel for the police union, told reporters that Metro officer Alexander Bookman was informed Thursday night that he would not be indicted in Brandon Durham’s death.
A shooting Friday morning on Interstate 15 in the northeast Las Vegas Valley wounded one and shut down several travel lanes for hours.
Nevada joined two other states in an investigation into the hospital operators’ alleged use of an agreement that led to employer-driven debt.
