Landscaping in Dry Climates

A comparison of the seven seasons of northeastern New Mexico with the six seasons and produce of Fresno, California.

Dryland Ornamental Grasses can make a bare landscape look livable and natural.

If you design a landscape around a desert willow, what will it look like in the winter?

Xeriscape poetry about desert life, flora and fauna.

Hay-Baling Your Xeric Vegetables

Continuing with the west side of the dry landscape, we consider what looks good as a privacy screen between the front and back yards. An added plus: Birds love it, too!

The west sides of homes are among the hottest places in xeric landscaping. You can order most plants now for fall planting. You can put your garage on the west to act as an insulating buffer. A variety of "Xeric to the Max" plants work well and look really good together ...

A few years ago weather predictions were accurate within two weeks. This year my Almanac has been very accurate - and its predicting a very dry century for North America. Will it be a dry milennium?

The Three Sisters food crops of corn, beans, and squash return to the desert sand near Tucumcari. This is a report on how well the native planting methods produced food crops in an empty field in one of our country's first farming areas.

Rainwater Collection and Distribution Systems allow you to use water that falls as rain to meet the water needs of your gardening and landscaping.