Tag Archives: Gardening

Flowering plants don’t just look pretty – they can also do some serious garden work. Beautiful, aromatic blossoms attract beneficial insects – such as pollinators – to the garden. And in vegetable gardens, you can enlist flowering plants to help with pest control, either attracting predators that keep populations of …

The Globe-Miami area is about 3500 feet in elevation, and offers a year-round growing season for dedicated gardeners. Mary Hysong, is a local grower who sells produce from her gardens at the Globe and Superior Farmers’ Markets. She has nearly 20 acres of land just east of Miami and offers …

Gila County is famous for a few things: copper mining, cattle ranching, the Pleasant Valley War—not so much for its farm produce. But if you are a chef at one of the Valley’s four-star restaurants searching for some of Arizona’s best asparagus, peaches, or lettuce, you just might find it …

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 …