updated. 8-15-2000
Living in the
high desert presents the gardener with challenges that can make
family and friends wonder at their sanity for continuing their
efforts. The rewards for those efforts are well worth any extra
effort. This page is dedicated to presenting hints that can help
minimise those challenges as well as information that can spur
the gardener toward new challenges. Gardening is my
passion. The purpose of this web page is to allow me to share
that passion. It is important to me that you find this information
useful. Finally I am catching up on my web page. You are welcome
to contribute articles or suggest topics.
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If You Are Caught In A Frame
From recent
news reports much of the Southern United States will be experiencing
droughts this year. Atlanta as well as Albuquerque has already
established water rationing. There are ways to maintain healthy
vegetables and flowers with wise use of water. It broke my heart
last summer to see plants in pots die in Southern Arkansas and
Eastern Texas simply because didn't water them. Water rationing
means that the gardener needs to practice water conservation
techniques that desert gardeners have been developing. Those
techniques will be presented here.
Check out the
Moosey's Country Garden under the updated gardening links. This
is truly a dream garden. Also under gardening links are many
more sites for desert gardens, succulents, and cactus gardening.
The Botanical Gardens sections has some great new additions.
Did you know there is a cactus Garden in Germany? More and more
graphic designers are using a floral theme. I have added some
great sites in the Graphis area. Still can't find too much on
cactus graphics.
I have been to Master Gardener Training in Albuquerque and I
have taken numerous biology and botany courses at University
of New Mexico. I love growing flowers and vegetables, the more
unusual the
better. Practising water conservation and using plants that like
growing with sandy, alkaline soil is a
necessity. However, a bit of fudging with those conditions by
improving the soil and lowering the pH can stretch the variety
of plants that can be grown. The secret to my successful gardens
is compost.
Cactus Photographs and Descriptions
Feel free to email any of your spectacular
photographs to display.
Recipes are appreciated as well.
Jona's
Workshop - My personal pages and my cats pages. Come visit
awhile.
The creator of these beautiful
Southwestern Graphics.