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  • Summer Prep: Desert-Proof Your Plants Before the Season Turns Up

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    Austin Lynn
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    A Garden Social guide to thriving through long days, intense sun, and Arizona’s famously stubborn soil. – By Austin Lynn, Owner Zone 9b gardeners don’t need a reminder that summer is hot—we live it. But the best summer gardens aren’t built in June. They’re built now, by setting up your soil and your watering patterns…

  • The Unseen Enemy: Spider Mites and Desert Plant Health

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    Austin Lynn
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    How Arizona’s Unique Environment Heightens Pest Risks—and What You Can Do – Austin Lynn, Garden Social Owner and Landscape Horticulture Expert In desert regions like Maricopa and throughout Arizona, plants already live on the edge of environmental stress. Intense sun, low humidity, alkaline soils, and long stretches of heat push landscapes to their limits. When…

  • The Miracle of the Prickly Pear

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    cyrusjones12
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    A Sonoran Desert Treasure In the heart of the Sonoran Desert, one plant stands out not just for its resilience, but for its beauty, utility, and cultural significance: the prickly pear cactus. With paddle-shaped pads and jewel-toned fruit known as tunas, this desert native is more than just a pretty plant it’s a powerhouse of…

  • Mulberry Trees

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    mikemannamanharris
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    What a sweet tasty treat to have mulberries! Better yet, have mulberries growing in your yard that produce every spring in Late March and April! Mulberries are my favorite fruits growing in my home garden that produce abundantly every year. I have always loved the fruit and the broad leaves that are amazing for shade.…

  • Hello World!

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    Austin Lynn
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    Our first blog post – by Austin Lynn Welcome to our Horticulture in the Sonoran Desert blog, a space where Garden Social landscape horticulture experts, master gardeners, urban farmers and environmental sustainability advocates come together to bring unique insight, excitement, intriguing facts and new discoveries to light, with real-world experience growing beautiful plants and curating…