Xtremehorticulture of the Desert

Q. I read your blog on pruning flowering shrubs but want to know if this information also pertains to wisteria vines? I’ve read that floweri...

Q. I am reaching out to you to see if you could offer some advice on my established fig tree. I noticed that some of the leaves have turned ...

 Growing roses in the desert is not as hard as one might think. It follows alot of the same principles of growing other mesic plants. 

  Q. About a year ago your newspaper column had a clip about stopping annual weeds & it’s in your column in the RJ this past Saturday. I...

Bottle trees ( Brachychiton populneus   and locally called Kurrajong) are Australian native trees found in the northern tropical and subtrop...

Q. I have a 25-year-old fruitless cherry plum tree in my backyard. It is a beautiful tree, and has grown wonderfully through the years, howe...

Q. Can you also guide regarding quality of seeds and plants and recommendation for places where to get them from? Any guidance how I can imp...

 Q. A friend has a beautiful, large, old (and productive) fig tree on a property she owns in an older neighborhood. She just observed for th...

Q. I am trying to figure out when asparagus goes dormant in the desert. I have been doing some research, but I can’t find information about ...

Q. When should I harvest pistachio nuts from my five-year-old tree? In October the nuts were yellowish green with a red blush covering them....

Q. My asparagus attempt resulted in five out of 10 crowns dying.  I did as you suggested and dug down as deep as my tiller would dig about 1...

Q. Is it too late to plant new plants? Yes, thats my shoe on a soil we will soon plant to vegetables. But not without adding compost at a ra...

            Do you have insurance? Companies selling insurance are betting you will not have a problem. You, on the other hand, are betting ...

 Q. I have been looking for replacement of my sabadilla dust that is just running out now. I have been unable to find it. Pyrethrum (Chyrsan...

Q. I am a special education teacher and gardener in Sonoma County, California, and I've been searching for Copena V1 or F1 cacti to cult...

Q. I accidentally cultivated up a bunch of daffodil bulbs. When is the best time to replant them in Las Vegas? They show no signs of green. ...

 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 ...