Good to Know

With the extra water, humidity, and cooler temperatures of monsoon season, it feels like a second spring as many of our garden plants come into bloom. Here are some of Nate’s favorites.

When northern Arizona welcomes the monsoon season, plants far and wide bloom and burst with life from the much-needed rain. One spectacular plant blooming in abundance here at The Arb is Rudbeckia laciniata.

We recently completed a successful seed collection trip for one of our smallest microflora species: Sentry Milkvetch (Astragalus cremnophylax).

Two incredible flowers bloom at the same time here in Flagstaff: golden combines and rocky mountain penstemons. What’s fascinating is that they grow in very different environments.

The start of the monsoons is an important time for high elevation gardening.

We’ve all tried ingenious ways to deter deer, squirrels, and rabbits: shiny and noisy objects, tall fences, spraying garlic, and so on. What’s a high country gardener to do to prevent “squirrel pruning”?