Xtremehorticulture of the Desert

 It's very simple. Prune flowering trees and shrubs after they finish flowering. Now learn why and how to prune these plants in the dese...

One reader looking for sabadilla and having no luck finding it. Sabadilla was very popular maybe 40 or 50 years ago as a "natural"...

 There are over 600 varieties of pomegranates with all sorts of flavors and colors that make this a unique and hardy fruit tree for desert c...

Q. My oranges haven’t ripened on my two-year-old tree. Some are green and others yellowish with very hard skin and last year’s fruit wasn’t ...

Q. We did a landscape conversion, removed the lawn and now our tree-sized specimen, multi-trunked photinia, is declining. The trunk has crac...

 Q. What should I do to increase the size of my pomegranate fruit next year? My soil has a red color. Pomegranate flower Pomegranate small f...

Q.  As an avid killer of plants I can't seem to get anything to grow outstanding well.  My asparagus attempt is especially disappointing...

Q. My little pummelo which came bare root in March has profuse flowering now in November.  The tree is small -5'- and would not support ...

 Q. I think you addressed this not too long ago but I give your Saturday articles to my neighbor so I’m not sure what you said. The attached...

Learn how much water to give your landscape plants and when to do it on this episode of Desert Horticulture. Stay ahead of the drought cu...

I received a question about ash tree flowers from a reader but I thought about ash trees in general. This podcast talks about my concerns wh...

 Diane and Tom have been growing herbs, greens, and microgreens in the desert and marketed them to chefs, restaurants and homeowners for dec...

Q. I would like to plant a pomegranate tree this Fall but I am worried that the weather is going to be cooling down soon. Do you think I mis...

Q. I live in the St. George Utah area and use your horticulture advice regarding many of the plants in my yard. Three small questions if I m...

 Fall months are busy in desert residential landscapes. Learn what you should be doing this fall in your home landscape.

Q. I have a ten-year-old Bartlett pear tree and the pears are kind of small, about 3 inches long. The label says they ripen in August but mi...

Q. This past year our pomegranate bush had a lot of whiteflies. I know they do damage to the bush and so I want to control them organically ...

Q. In a previous post you talked about whiteflies.  https://xtremehorticulture.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-to-control-whiteflies-on-tomato.html...

Q. I am planting a 15-gallon ‘Wonderful’ pomegranate and suspicious if the plant would benefit from a deeper hole amended with washed sand t...

Q. We're considering planting a fig tree grove in our school garden this year. How long typically does it take for them to produce figs ...