Bisbee Wall Garden
I’m a sucker for vertically arranged succulents. Basically, you can hang almost any sort of water-filled plant on a wall and I’ll probably like it. We ate at Poco in Bisbee last summer, and this cool...
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Growdown! Report: Nursery Stops, Part Two, A Visit to Starr Nursery
Agave colorata in the trunk. I’ve spent months in a truck driving around Mexico with Greg Starr looking for oddball succulent plants, and I think it is safe to say that his taste in landscape plants is...
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Growdown! Report: Nursery Stops, Part One
Petey Mesquitey modeling next to our selected beaked yucca. The centerpiece of my design is a large beaked yucca (Yucca rostrata) grown in Cochise, Arizona by Mountain States Wholesale Nursery. Over 20...
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Growdown! Report: The Divine Ms. Debra Raeber
Call me a snob, but I just can’t endorse a garden with lots of plants displayed in black plastic nursery pots. In the world of lovely and ordered gardens that plays in a video loop in my head, every...
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Growdown! Report: Day One
“It’s on like Donkey Kong!”, or as my assistant Amy Belk says, “the growdown is on in Tucsontown!” Whatever the case, the first day of the Growdown! is over, and here is what we have to show for it:
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Growdown! Report: Day Two
I’m too tired to write much, but here are some photos of our garden. I couldn’t do this without the help of my outstanding contractors, included the iron sheik himself, Chris Drake (look at the photos...
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Growdown! Report: Day Three
We finished it! A huge thanks to Marc White at Casa Blanca Horticultural Services, Chris Drake at Drakebuilt Projects, and Debra Raeber of Debra Raeber Hand-built Pottery. Also part of the team,...
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Arizona Illustrated Growdown! Video
This video does a great job of showing off all of our work at the Growdown! Tony Paniaqua and Steve Riggs did a great job with the production, videography, and editing.
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Score! Giant Sea Squill in Poultry Netting
I went to east Tucson Home Depot looking for freesia bulbs. I returned with a trunk full of bowling-ball sized giant sea squill (Urginea maritima); and here is the kicker, they were half-off, that’s...
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