Happy Fall! As the Aesop’s fable goes, the ants spent the fall working hard to prepare for winter. The grasshopper played and sang, then went…
They’ll remember the ladybugs. Surprising, appearing at their fingertips, camouflaged yellow among the dry, yellow coriander. The planned lesson on seed collecting turned into ten…
The palo verdes blooming all around Tucson have cast a spell over me again. I couldn’t help but smile stuck in traffic on the freeway,…
In Tucson, the first day of spring on the calendar can go by unnoticed, minor. The weather became gorgeous (with a few lion-like interruptions) back…
“Can I show you my new babies?” I beckon my husband on the way out of the house. I proudly open the doors of my…
“I had a lot of fun in the garden yesterday!” beamed one of my elementary students entering school on Wednesday. The boy’s smile and his…
Cooler days, softer soil… what a wonderful time to pull weeds! Sure, it’s also a good time to plant seeds, construct a new compost bin,…
Desert gardening, on a practical level, means gardening in an arid environment. Desert gardening, on a personal level, means gardening in and with the place…
The sunflowers are starting. My son and husband alerted me to the single bloom in our backyard in early May, just as I was steeling myself…
“It’s lupine time! Go lupines, go lupines, go, go, go lupines!” spontaneously chanted my 5-year-old on our walk to his brother’s school mid-March. He does…