We've devoted the south side of the house, the hot spot, as the desert garden. We have a variety of bulbs for color, yucca plants (New Mexico state flower - in honor of Renee's home state) and various other high temperature resistant and low water survivors. This will save on some watering and a few basement leaking problem spots.
Over the weekend, because March starts next week, we were able to transfer the yucca plants from the north side of the house to the new desert garden.
One of the great things about being an urban farm is that we get a lot of foot traffic and visitors returning from the library, walking to the city park, on the way to the bus stop, or just walking a dog. Today, while transplanting the yucca plants, two of our regular visitors were returning from the library and gave me a few extra green thumbs. That's a great thing about city farming.
While working this weekend I noticed the first bloomers, one of my favorites, the crocus, are everywhere and beginning to bloom. The tulips and daffodils are breaking through and reaching for the sun. It won't be long now and the desert will be green (for a few weeks anyway.)
Before the weekend:
After the weekend:
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