[Arid_gardener] Re: Landscape Plants for Mesa

[Dick Gross]

Ginny, a technique I've used and recommended to friends is to drive around 
the neighborhood and get ideas from established landscapes. If you see 
something interesting, knock on the door and ask the occupant about certain 
plants you see in their yards. He or she will be, I've found, usually eager 
to answer questions, unless their dinner is getting cold on the table. 
Nurseries are not apt to carry species marginal in that area. See what sets 
on their shelves. Locate them in your phone book.

Other good sources are commercial and State establishments who usually use 
proffessional landscapers who likely know their business. If a plant or bush 
flourishes around the Capital building or the Holliday Inn, it will surely 
do as well in this front or back yard.

The Maricopa County Cooperative Extension has a wide array of species on the 
grounds at 4341 E. Broadway.

If your son plans to stick around for a while and has given you free rein, 
you have time to do it right the first time. Run your ideas through this 
forum.

But, get some idea what kind of a landscape your son would be compatable 
with and make a rough drawing first or while you scope the neighborhood.

Maricopa county once had a voluntary group that would congegate at a 
candidates yard and design a landscape. I don't know if the panel is still 
active.

If it was my yard, the critical priority would be, could I feed off the 
landscape.

Dick Gross, Editor
Arizona Rare Fruit Growers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "olin miller" <dergartenarzt at att.net>
To: <ginnycook at comcast.net>; <arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Arid_gardener] Re: Landscape Plants for Mesa


>I should also have mentioned the Pima County Master Gardeners' Arid plant 
>list at
> http://cals.arizona.edu/pima/gardening/aridplants/aridplant_index.html
>
> Olin
>
>> ----- Original Message -----From: <ginnycook at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:52 PM
>>> Ginny Cook, 29412, ginnycook at comcast.net
>>> Hi,  I'm a master gardener here in Charleston,SC.  I am visiting my son 
>>> in
>>> Mesa this Feb. and want to work in his yard.  He has a small enclosed
>>> courtyard and a small front yard.  Can you send me any info on the best
>>> plants to consider?  Do you have a favorite book I should buy?  Do you
>>> know of a good nursery in his area?(85215)
>
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