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Growdown! Report: Master of Steel, Chris Drake View Gallery / Read Post

Growdown! Report: Master of Steel, Chris Drake

If you visit the Drake Built Projects garage, you are likely to see sparks flying and hear Metallica or maybe...

Growdown! Report: The Divine Ms. Debra Raeber View Gallery / Read Post

Call me a snob, but I just can’t endorse a garden with lots of plants displayed in black plastic nursery...

Growdown! Report: Nursery Stops, Part One Read Post

The centerpiece of my design is a large beaked yucca (Yucca rostrata) grown in Cochise, Arizona by Mountain States Wholesale...

Growdown! Report: Fifty Shades of Silver Read Post

My Own Fifty Shades I know almost nothing about the”50 shades of…” erotic novel, except that lots of women seem...

Growdown! Report: Nursery Stops, Part Two, A Visit to Starr Nursery Read Post

I’ve spent months in a truck driving around Mexico with Greg Starr looking for oddball succulent plants, and I think...

This is the planting plan for the Tucson Botanical Gardens Growdown! garden I’ve designed. The Growdown! is a garden design...

Bisbee Wall Garden Read Post

I’m a sucker for vertically arranged succulents. Basically, you can hang almost any sort of water-filled plant on a wall...