You can help your garden – and the ecosystem in general – by becoming a welcoming host to some of the hardest working horticulturists around. These gardeners are very different from each other, but have three things in common – they love flowers, have names that start with “B,” and are winged. Birds, Bees and Butterflies are essential to the process of pollination, and a few strategic choices in your garden will help them thrive and improve your space as well. Let’s start with bees, which … [Read more...] about The Three Bs of Garden Success
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Taking Root: Children’s Garden Where Healing Grows
Anna LaBenz spent many summer afternoons on a peaceful, pine-fringed knoll in Foxglenn Park, longing to hold her baby boy while her son, Jack, three years old at the time, played in the nearby playground. Jack’s little brother, fondly known as “JLB,” died during childbirth 10 years ago. Today, the Flagstaff photographer is beginning to see the power of her love transform the stump where she sat into a place of healing. With the support of friends, doctors, contractors and the City of Flagstaff, … [Read more...] about Taking Root: Children’s Garden Where Healing Grows
Garden Your Way to a Healthy Heart and Strong Body
The warmer-than-normal winter and spring weather is beckoning us outdoors. April means gardening season is just around the corner. The spring bulbs have made their way through the winter leaves and traces of snow. The vegetable gardens are begging to be tilled and raked and planted. Avid and casual gardeners are anxious to get their hands dirty and gardens green and alive. When I’m not caring for surgical patients, I’m busy planting, tending and harvesting my 4,900 square-foot garden, followed … [Read more...] about Garden Your Way to a Healthy Heart and Strong Body
NAU Lands $2.5 M Grant for Garden Array
The National Science Foundation has awarded Northern Arizona University’s College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences a four-year, $2.5 million grant to create the Southwest Experimental Garden Array. The garden array will be a system of 10 experimental gardens across northern Arizona that include habitat types from desert to alpine forests. The gardens will be used to examine how climate change will affect the ecology and evolution of individual plant species, plant communities … [Read more...] about NAU Lands $2.5 M Grant for Garden Array
Sustainable Home and Garden Tour September 10th
In today’s world of soaring gas prices, increasing foreclosures, and environmental destruction, it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But there is good news: community members in Coconino County and Flagstaff, AZ are organizing an event that will promote plausible solutions that combine environmental stewardship, local economic development and affordability. The Coconino County Sustainable Building Program, in partnership with the City of Flagstaff Sustainability … [Read more...] about Sustainable Home and Garden Tour September 10th
