Harvesting Southwest Native Plants

Hardy and helpful southwest desert plants can add richness to your kitchen, your medicine chest, your home, and your garden, as well as enhancing the  lives of your neighborhood songbirds and wildlife.  Our classes and workshops show you easy, fun, and healthy ways to incorporate our native plants into your life. Come enjoy learning with us!   Harvesting Southwest Native Plants for Food, Fun, & Healing with Robin Kobaly   Saturday, March 19th | 12:30 – 4:30 pm 4-Hour Workshop […]

Plant of the Month – July 2014

Sugar Bush Rhus ovata   Plant Form: Evergreen Shrub Water Use: Low Mature Size: 8-15’ tall & wide Exposure: Full Sun, Part Shade Bloom Time: Spring (March – May); fruit Summer (June – August) Native to: California, Arizona, & Mexico (at elevations 3,000 – 5,000 feet)  Hardiness: Cold Hardy to 0°F     Sugar Bush is a very long-lived, evergreen, aromatic shrub with lush, deep green, leathery leaves that are slightly folded like a taco shell. Maroon twigs and leaf […]