Teaching Thursdays
Teaching Thursdays provide weekly video gardening tips and “how-tos” in our weekly e-newsletter: Life Lived Outside.
Browse the posts below for information to support your gardening efforts and answer your pressing questions.


Birds, Berries, and Backyard Bliss
Birds in the backyard can bring so much joy. Making your garden a habitat for them isn’t hard with native plants.

Create Your Own Butterfly Garden
Creating your own butterfly garden is not difficult at all with our expert tips.


The Mangave
Mangaves: a cool group of hybrids that are drought-tolerant with a variety of colorful and textural foliage.

3 Tips for Fern Care
Ferns can add gorgeous texture and lushness to your home or patio, they just need a little TLC.


The Firecracker Plant for Hummingbirds
The Firecracker Plant and Hummingbirds make a great flora-fauna match.

Watering PSA
Often, the rain we think is a monsoon is not enough to stop watering our plants!

3 Tips for Keeping Hydrangeas Happy
Hydrangeas are gorgeous, they just need the correct conditions in our 9b grow zone.


Earth Day Inspiration
Even though every day can be Earth Day in our gardens, we appreciate the inspiration that comes from the official celebration each April 22.
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