Boyce Thompson Arboretum to the Rescue: The effort to save the Wallace Desert Gardens Boyce Thompson Arboretum recently announced that it is part of a massive effort to save the plant collection of Wallace Desert Gardens. Located in north Scottsdale, this garden contains 12 acres of more than 7,000 cultivated …
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A plant-filled landscape has co-evolved with humans for as long as we have been around to see it. Your stucco, wood, and concrete house is really just a fancy cave, and the picture window in your living room is the transparent cave door that keeps out the bears and inquisitive …
Read More »If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, then the opposite must be true when considering some of the less charming plants. I know that it’s unfair to condemn one individual plant, no matter how smelly, allergenic, or uncharismatic it might be. But when that plant has …
Read More »Do you know what a globemallow is? We'll give you a hint. It has bright orange blossoms, fuzzy stems and leaves, and you will be very sorry if you touch one and then rub your eye.
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Plants, like people, gain notoriety because of specific qualities that we can’t ignore. Attractive, dangerous, irritating, or seductive, certain plants can alter your life for better or for worse. The globemallow, also known as sore-eye mallow (mal de ojos in Spanish), can do both at the same time. Everyone seems …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg, founder, CEO, and president of Facebook – and now Time magazine’s man of the year – summed up the movie The Social Network by saying that, when it came to portraying his life, Hollywood fundamentally missed the point. He didn’t use money, girls, and access to parties and …
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