This past weekend was a busy one in our household. Packed with a homecoming, a celebration, working with heavy equipment, a little bit of pruning, a night outdoors and a goodbye.
At the end of all of our comings and goings, it turns out the weekend was all to brief…
Homecoming:
Our weekend began on Friday night when we all loaded up into the car & truck (one vehicle doesn’t fit us all), and headed out to the airport to pick up our daughter, Rachele, who was flying in from Mississippi after finishing up her combat school.
After showing up at the wrong terminal, we were just in time to meet Rachele as she walked into baggage claim.
It was so great to see her again.
I apologize for the a few of the following pictures, since all I had was my phone camera.
Kai decided that he wanted to try to carry Rachele’s sea bag to the car.
Well, it was so heavy, that he almost fell backward 😉
So dad carried it instead.
What you are witnessing in the photo above, is a joyful reunion. Rachele had bought her first new car all by herself and had only 2 days to drive it before leaving for Mississippi for combat school. So, she was very happy to see her car again.
Celebration:
On Saturday morning, we celebrated my oldest daughter, Brittney’s, 27th birthday. I can hardly believe that she is mine 🙂
Brittney had two requests for her birthday. One – she wanted a cast iron skillet. She loves to cook!
Of course, if you give someone a cast iron skillet, you need to pair it with a cookbook.
Now, my daughter is not a ‘dummie’, but that was the only cast iron cookbook that our local Barnes & Noble had.
My nephew, Oliver and my son Kai are trying their best to look interested while Brittney is opening her gifts, when they would much rather get back to playing ‘zombies’.
Now it was time for the cake. Every year my two oldest daughters request that I make the same cake, which is called ‘Holy Cow’. And every year I try to convince them to let me make another type of cake.
Not that I don’t like ‘Holy Cow’ cake – but I am a recreational cake baker and like to experiment with different cake recipes.
But, every year, I give in and make their favorite birthday cake.
The cake starts with a chocolate cake mix with lots of good things added including sweetened condensed milk, caramel, whip cream, cream cheese and crushed Butterfinger candy bars.
You can find the recipe here if you are interested in making this delicious cake. But be forewarned – your family will not let you make any other kind of cake after they taste this one.
While the birthday celebration wore on, my daughter, Rachele, showed us the 7 different ways that you can carry people that she learned in her combat school.
Her younger sister, Gracie, was happy to help her demonstrate.
My granddaughter Lily was intrigued.
Notice the mother-daughter matching Vans shoes?
Lily decided to volunteer to help her Aunt Rachele show how to carry people.
Then it was time for Lily to visit the object of her latest obsession – our 4-month-old puppy, Penny.
Lily did her best to get Penny to come so she could pet her.
But Penny was too tired to get up 😉
Heavy Equipment:
My daughter Rachele is an Equipment Operator in the Navy. She has just finished 6 months of training and can operate all types of heavy equipment.
So, when she stopped by the family farm (where my mother, sister and her family reside), she volunteered to help with some of the work they were doing.
They were leveling parts of the backyard to get rid of gopher holes.
It was so fun for her dad to see her do this for the first time. He said that he was so proud to see what she could do – it felt like he was witnessing her college graduation.
Pruning:
Meanwhile at our homestead, there was pruning to be done.
I took this picture just as half of the shrubs were pruned away.
You see, I have a pair of Red Bird-of-Paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) growing underneath my kitchen window.
In the summer, I love how they grow in front of my window because they visually cool my kitchen with their pretty foliage and flowers.
But, once fall arrives, I want to see my side garden again. So, even though you should wait until January to prune them back to 1 foot, I asked my husband if he wouldn’t mind doing it now.
Night Outdoors:
On Sunday night, my son decided that he wanted to camp outdoors – or rather on our patio.
So, he and his dad set up the tent and got it all set up.
Of course, you need vital equipment including wearing your ‘camo’ pajamas and backpack, a knit hat, a sleeping bag with a few blankets just to make sure you will keep warm.
I half expected Kai to wake up in the middle of the night to come indoors to sleep in his own bed.
BUT…
At 9:00 in the morning, he was still sleeping.
Goodbye:
Early on Monday morning, Rachele, left for her permanent posting in California. It is an exciting time for her, now that she has finished her Navy training and can now begin her career with the Navy.
Because she lives so close to us now, we will be able to see her much more often.
**Thank you for taking a few minutes out of your day to read about our family’s adventures.
I’d love to hear about your past weekend. What did you do?
Birthday Celebrations and Dessert!
What Is Wrong With This Citrus Tree?
Arizona, California, Citrussomething wrong with citrus tree
Last week, I came upon this citrus tree while I was doing a consultation.
At first, there was one problem that I noticed right away. As I peered closer, I saw that there was another problem affecting this tree.
The tree was well-fertilized and I could see no sign of nutrient deficiencies.
Can you tell what is wrong with this citrus tree?
Leave your guesses below in the comment section and I will reveal the answer tomorrow 🙂
*You may be wondering why you should care about the problems of this particular citrus tree. Well, if you have citrus growing in your garden, you may have the same problem(s) and not even know it.
My hope is to help others identify and correct problems with their plants that they may not be aware of until it is too late.
Coming Off Of A Sugar High…
az plant lady familyI love Halloween…
Every year, each household in our family takes turns hosting different holidays.
Easter and Christmas are spent on the family farm with my youngest sister, her family and my mother.
Fourth of July and Thanksgiving are spend at my other sister’s house.
But, Halloween is all mine…
We don’t do scary Halloween themes. The young kids in the family wouldn’t appreciate it and I must admit that I don’t like scary costume or movies.
What I do like to focus on is making family-friendly decorations and making desserts.
Each year, I like to add to my homemade Halloween decorations. Last year, I made paper-mache pumpkins.
This time I made witches hats using paper plates and party hats. Simply glue them together and spray with black spray paint. I added some black lace around the brim. I am pretty happy with how they turned out.
This year I made homemade marshmallow pops, dipped in candy melts and sprinkles.
I also made Halloween sugar cookies.
The table runner is made of butcher paper with Halloween stamps – I like simple.
Because Halloween is a night for eating lots of sugar, I always ask my mother to bring a healthy pot of soup for us all to share before heading out to trick-or treat.
One of the reasons that I enjoy Halloween so much is the excitement of the little kids as they dress up and get ready to head out. They don’t want to bother with eating any dinner 😉
Here is my granddaughter, Lily, in her Tinker Bell costume. Isn’t she cute? My daughter made her costume 🙂
My daughter, Gracie, went as a medieval queen and my son, Kai, was a zombie like many boys his age this year.
My youngest sister and her family came ready to trick-or-treat.
My mother and I stayed by the fire pit in the front driveway and handed out candy.
My brother brought over my 3-year-old twin nephews who dressed up as sharks.
Lily could hardly wait to get started.
We spent much of the evening keeping warm by the fire while greeting a LOT of trick-or-treaters.
The best part of Halloween is seeing what types of candy you have received.
Lily kept playing with this lollipop without taking off the paper. I really need to teach her about focusing on the chocolate candy bars 😉
We had a fun evening, but it was time to get the kids to bed.
And take down the Halloween decorations…
How did you spend your Halloween?
‘Scary’ Pruning Practices
AgaveIn honor of Halloween, I thought that I would do a ‘scary’ post for all of you.
Now, this post isn’t filled with ghouls, witches, skeletons or zombies. But that doesn’t make it any less scary.
Over the years, I have photographed examples of truly horrific pruning, which are quite scary 😉
WARNING: The following images are not for the faint of heart…
These used to be Jacaranda trees. I say “used to” because they died because of this severe and unnecessary pruning.
This is a photo of a Red Yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora) that was pruned the wrong way.
Unfortunately, this was a landscape that I was in charge of 14 years ago next to the clubhouse on a golf course.
My well-intentioned crew member, thought he was doing me a favor by pruning them for me. He was so proud of the work he had done, that he came into my office and asked me to come outside and see his handiwork.
I must say, that it was hard to criticize him because he was so proud of his work. Needless to say, I transferred him to doing more clean-up and less pruning around the golf course.
A few months later, he returned to his small town in Mexico where he became mayor 🙂
*This is what Red Yucca are supposed to look like when in flower…
As you can see, you don’t cut the grass-like, succulent foliage below – ever. The flowers can be pruned to the base when they die. If the base clump become to wide, then divide the base much like you would perennials.
This photo was taken of another landscape area about 12 years ago that I was in charge of by another golf course. I made sure that the crew did not prune it 😉
Last month, I was in the historic district of downtown Phoenix returning from a landscape consultation when I drove by these very sad California Fan Palms.
While fall is the time to prune back – this is NOT the way to do it. Too much was removed. For guidelines on how to prune palm trees, click here.
This was a beautiful Palo Brea tree. Unfortunately, it was ‘topped’ in order for the homeowner to preserve their view of the mountains.
‘Topping’ trees is very bad for trees. It leaves the upper branches open to sunburn, which is often followed by insect infestations or disease.
In fact, topping trees causes the tree to grow faster, to replace the lost foliage, which leads to an increased need for pruning. The branches that appear after ‘topping’ have a very weak attachment, which makes the new branches a hazard because they are in danger of breaking off.
**If a tree is blocking a view that is important to you – then remove the tree instead of subjecting it to torturing it with this type of pruning.
Here is another example of ‘topping’. This parking lot in Scottsdale, has trees like this.
Believe it or not, this ‘topped’ tree is a Willow Acacia (Acacia salicina).
This is what it should look like…
Hard to believe that they are the same type of tree, isn’t it?
I don’t think that I have ever seen an agave pruned so badly before.
The only time you need to prune an agave is to remove the bottom leaves, once they die.
I think that this agave would have looked much nicer if they had left it alone, like the one below…
It would also be much healthier and less likely to be susceptible to insect attack.
Believe it or not, these are citrus trees.
I could hardly believe my eyes when I drove by and saw what had happened to these trees.
You may be thinking that maybe they suffered from severe frost damage and had to be cut back. But, I assure you, this wasn’t the case. I worked just down the road from this house and there was no reason for these trees to be pruned this severely.
Ideally, citrus trees are pruned in March, concentrating on removing dead branches and suckers.
In fact, did you know that the lower branches produce more fruit that tastes sweeter than that on the higher branches? That is why you see citrus growers letting the lower branches of their trees grow instead of pruning them up into tree shapes.
**Just don’t let any branches (suckers) from below the bud union grow because they are from the root stock and are thorny and will produce sour fruit.
Much like the Red Yucca I showed you earlier, these Desert Spoon have been butchered.
They also did the same to their own Red Yucca, off to the right.
Desert Spoon has a beautiful, natural form.
The only pruning to be done is to remove the bottom leaves once they turn brown and die.
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I hope you haven’t been to ‘scared’ by these scary pruning practices.
Sometimes it is easy to get carried away when pruning. But it is important to remember that a plant’s leaves make the food for the plant. Take away the ability of the plant to make food, it will re-route resources normally used for dealing with environmental stresses as well as defenses against insects and disease toward growing new leaves.
This will make your plants/trees more susceptible to other problems, not to mention leaving them ugly.
“Scary” Pruning Practices and the Unfortunate Results
Photo Montage: Over-Pruned, Flowering Shrubs
Southwest gardenSouthwest landscapes are suffering from a widespread malady that I like to refer to as ‘poodle-pruning’.
Beautiful, flowering shrubs are reduced to round ‘blobs’ by over-zealous homeowners and landscapers.
For those of you who have read my blog for a while, you probably know that over-pruning flowering shrubs is a huge pet peeve of mine.
Over the years, I have seen many examples of over-pruning and in some rather interesting shapes. However, last week I saw an example of pruning that caused me to stop my truck in the middle of a busy parking lot so I could take a photo.
I don’t think that I have EVER seen such precise pruning before. I wouldn’t be surprised if the landscaper who did this had a ‘level’ with him to create these precise lines on these Texas Sage shrubs.
Of course, I have seen flowering shrubs pruned into other shapes in my travels around the Southwest…
Here is an example of perfectly formed ‘cupcake’ Texas Ranger shrubs.
I think these sage shrubs look like a lumpy cake, don’t you?
The owners of this property must be fans of modern art, which is what these sage shrubs remind me of.
But for me, I would rather see these flowering shrubs rescued from the overzealous pruning epidemic.
I think that they look much nicer when pruned no more then twice a year.
Now, is not the time to be pruning your Sage shrubs (Leucophyllum species). Wait until the danger of frost is over, in late winter or early spring before pruning.
For more guidelines on pruning, click here.
I prune my ‘Rio Bravo’ sage (Leucophyllum langmaniae ‘Rio Bravo’) shrubs once a year in March.
I then let them grow throughout the year and they help to screen out the bare wall. I also get a fabulous floral display off an on throughout the warm months of the year.
I am certain that the landscaper who did this pruning is very proud of their work and I admire their attention to detail.
But, I would much rather see these flowering shrubs maintained correctly with just a minimum of pruning, wouldn’t you?
A Birdhouse With Unusual Purpose
Double S FarmsDo you have a birdhouse in your garden? Is it decorative or do have there ever been birds taking up residence inside?
This is a story about the birdhouses on the family farm, including one that has an unusual function.
Double S Farms is five minutes down the road from our house and is where my youngest sister and her family live along with my mother.
I am over at the farm at least once a week – usually for the weekly dinner that my mother cooks for our entire clan. It is a special time when I get to spend time with my siblings, their spouses and kids. We get to catch up with each other’s lives and get to enjoy delicious food, cooked by my mother, Pastor Farmer.
(My mother is a retired pastor who loves growing food on their small farm).
The backyard is dotted with numerous trees including apple, kumquat, almond, pecan, peach, apricto, plum, orange, lemon and grapefruit. But, I always seem to find myself strolling by my mother’s raised vegetable beds to see what she is growing.
This past week, she was excited to show me her newest birdhouse.
Now, my mother has is a collector and has passed that gene along to her oldest daughter (me). One of her collections consists of birdhouses. Over the years, she has pared this collection of aviary homes down. But there is still a small collection of birdhouses in her garden…
I love this birdhouse, which is purely decorative. But, the chickens seem to find it a nice perch back when it stood in the chicken yard…
Now it sits with in the fenced-in vegetable garden area.
The gardens are now fenced in because the netting was not enough to keep the chickens out – including ‘Francie’ my sister’s naked-neck chicken (yes, her neck is supposed to be featherless).
If you look closely behind the first birdhouse, you will see one that looks like the ‘Tin Man’s head’ from the Wizard of Oz.
Like the other birdhouse, it is also decorative. I remember being with her when she bought it at a roadside nursery just outside of Carmel, Indiana during our Midwest road trip.
There are many nesting sites around Double S Farms and the birdhouse below, is one of them.
This birdhouse hangs from the Mesquite tree. It is made from a gourd that I grew, dried and then made into a birdhouse for her. I love this gourd birdhouse and have one in my own garden.
Well, now to the unusual birdhouse…
It doesn’t look all that unusual at first glance.
But, what this birdhouse is hiding is not a nest, but my mother’s hand tools that she uses for her vegetable garden.
They are easily accessible and are always on hand when she needs to harvest vegetables, remove weeds, etc.
She came up with this idea herself and just loves it. The birdhouse was bought at our local Ace Hardware store and the top lifts up, making it easy to access her tools.
What types of birdhouses do you have in your garden?
Are they decorative or have you had birds set up house in any of them?
Unusual Plant Containers
ContainersFall is here and nurseries are stocked with all sorts of cool-season annual flowers.
So, my question to you is, what will you plant your annual flowers in this fall? Will you use a ‘regular’ container?
Or, maybe you are the type who likes to do things a little differently?
Maybe one of these unusual planters is more your style?
An old bicycle basket finds new purpose as a planter in Noblesville, Indiana.
Marigolds planted in an old wheelbarrow along Route 66 in Williams, Arizona.
Old pots and bowls used to plant miniature gardens in an antique store in upstate New York.
Old chairs transformed into planters in the historic downtown of Noblesville, Indiana.
A ‘bed’ of flowering bulbs in Amish country in Shipshewana, Indiana.
An old bathtub serves as a large planter in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.
Galvanized metal bucket containers at an Amish swap meet.
I was fortunate enough to have seen all of these unique planters throughout my travels. But, it was these galvanized bucket containers that inspired me to purchase an old antique watering can and create my own unique container for flowers…
I found this rusty watering can in an antique store in Prescott, Arizona and I knew just where I would put it in my garden.
I added some holes on the bottom, and filled it with violas, lobelia and alyssum. It sits right in the middle of my side vegetable garden where I can see it from my kitchen window.
I hope you enjoyed seeing a few of the unusual planters from my travels.
**I would love to hear about any unique items that you have seen transformed into planters 🙂
A Beautiful Garden in the Middle of a Ghost Town
Preview: A Unique DIY Project With Unusual Ingredients…
DIYWhat can you do with a sprig of basil, a teaspoon of peppercorns and a lemon?
Hint: The answer doesn’t involve eating them.
I can’t wait for you to see what I do with these 3 items as well as some other interesting combinations.
I’ll post what wonderful things you can do with some simple, edible items on Monday.
**Sorry for the teaser, but it will be worth the wait – I promise 🙂
AZ Plant Lady House Call: Solution For a Shady Spot
Southwest gardenWelcome to the second edition of “AZ Plant Lady House Calls.
Earlier this month, I shared with you a landscape dilemma that a homeowner needed help with. I was able to help her find a solution that would introduce color and herbs to a sunny corner of her garden.
Well, this same homeowner had another problem area.
Solution For a Shady Spot
This shady area lies next to her sliding glass door and she has had a tough time getting anything to grow in this area.
You can see some straggly Vinca minor and a raised container growing a few weeds. I have rarely seen nice-looking Vinca minor growing in our area – so it is not a plant I recommend.
The homeowner wanted a plant for her container that would flourish along with a flowering groundcover.
What would you do in this area?
Believe it or not, it can be hard to find a plant that can handle our hot, dry temperatures that can also do well in shady areas. But, there are a few.
Solution For a Shady Spot
Recommendation: Purchase an orange-colored container to add some color to this area and plant a Mother-in-law’s Tongue (Sanseveria trifasciata) in the container.
For an extra decorative touch, you can add black pebbles on the top of the planting soil.
This tropical plant will add height and texture and is very easy to grow. *Protect from freezing temperatures by bringing them indoors.
Years ago, I worked for a golf course community that had large containers in full shade by the front doors of the clubhouse. After trying many different kinds of plants – this was the one that did the best.
Around the base of the raised container, I recommended planting 5 Mexican Heather (Cuphea hyssopifolia).
These do great in light shade and bloom off and on all year. They grow well in zones 9 – 11.
The leaves are small and so are the flowers on this groundcover that grows approximately 1 foot tall and 2 feet wide.
The purple flowers will provide great contrast to the new orange container.
Both the Mother-in-law’s Tongue and Mexican Heather are low-maintenance and will flourish in this shady spot.
So, what do you think of this solution? Do you have a shady area where you have a hard time growing anything?
I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of “AZ Plant Lady Virtual House Call”. I will be posting more in the future in the hopes that I can help you with an issue you may be facing in your own garden.
An All To Brief Weekend…
az plant lady familyThis past weekend was a busy one in our household. Packed with a homecoming, a celebration, working with heavy equipment, a little bit of pruning, a night outdoors and a goodbye.
At the end of all of our comings and goings, it turns out the weekend was all to brief…
Homecoming:
Our weekend began on Friday night when we all loaded up into the car & truck (one vehicle doesn’t fit us all), and headed out to the airport to pick up our daughter, Rachele, who was flying in from Mississippi after finishing up her combat school.
After showing up at the wrong terminal, we were just in time to meet Rachele as she walked into baggage claim.
It was so great to see her again.
I apologize for the a few of the following pictures, since all I had was my phone camera.
Kai decided that he wanted to try to carry Rachele’s sea bag to the car.
Well, it was so heavy, that he almost fell backward 😉
So dad carried it instead.
What you are witnessing in the photo above, is a joyful reunion. Rachele had bought her first new car all by herself and had only 2 days to drive it before leaving for Mississippi for combat school. So, she was very happy to see her car again.
Celebration:
On Saturday morning, we celebrated my oldest daughter, Brittney’s, 27th birthday. I can hardly believe that she is mine 🙂
Brittney had two requests for her birthday. One – she wanted a cast iron skillet. She loves to cook!
Of course, if you give someone a cast iron skillet, you need to pair it with a cookbook.
Now, my daughter is not a ‘dummie’, but that was the only cast iron cookbook that our local Barnes & Noble had.
My nephew, Oliver and my son Kai are trying their best to look interested while Brittney is opening her gifts, when they would much rather get back to playing ‘zombies’.
Now it was time for the cake. Every year my two oldest daughters request that I make the same cake, which is called ‘Holy Cow’. And every year I try to convince them to let me make another type of cake.
Not that I don’t like ‘Holy Cow’ cake – but I am a recreational cake baker and like to experiment with different cake recipes.
But, every year, I give in and make their favorite birthday cake.
The cake starts with a chocolate cake mix with lots of good things added including sweetened condensed milk, caramel, whip cream, cream cheese and crushed Butterfinger candy bars.
You can find the recipe here if you are interested in making this delicious cake. But be forewarned – your family will not let you make any other kind of cake after they taste this one.
While the birthday celebration wore on, my daughter, Rachele, showed us the 7 different ways that you can carry people that she learned in her combat school.
Her younger sister, Gracie, was happy to help her demonstrate.
My granddaughter Lily was intrigued.
Notice the mother-daughter matching Vans shoes?
Lily decided to volunteer to help her Aunt Rachele show how to carry people.
Then it was time for Lily to visit the object of her latest obsession – our 4-month-old puppy, Penny.
Lily did her best to get Penny to come so she could pet her.
But Penny was too tired to get up 😉
Heavy Equipment:
My daughter Rachele is an Equipment Operator in the Navy. She has just finished 6 months of training and can operate all types of heavy equipment.
So, when she stopped by the family farm (where my mother, sister and her family reside), she volunteered to help with some of the work they were doing.
They were leveling parts of the backyard to get rid of gopher holes.
It was so fun for her dad to see her do this for the first time. He said that he was so proud to see what she could do – it felt like he was witnessing her college graduation.
Pruning:
Meanwhile at our homestead, there was pruning to be done.
I took this picture just as half of the shrubs were pruned away.
You see, I have a pair of Red Bird-of-Paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) growing underneath my kitchen window.
In the summer, I love how they grow in front of my window because they visually cool my kitchen with their pretty foliage and flowers.
But, once fall arrives, I want to see my side garden again. So, even though you should wait until January to prune them back to 1 foot, I asked my husband if he wouldn’t mind doing it now.
Night Outdoors:
On Sunday night, my son decided that he wanted to camp outdoors – or rather on our patio.
So, he and his dad set up the tent and got it all set up.
Of course, you need vital equipment including wearing your ‘camo’ pajamas and backpack, a knit hat, a sleeping bag with a few blankets just to make sure you will keep warm.
I half expected Kai to wake up in the middle of the night to come indoors to sleep in his own bed.
BUT…
At 9:00 in the morning, he was still sleeping.
Goodbye:
Early on Monday morning, Rachele, left for her permanent posting in California. It is an exciting time for her, now that she has finished her Navy training and can now begin her career with the Navy.
Because she lives so close to us now, we will be able to see her much more often.
**Thank you for taking a few minutes out of your day to read about our family’s adventures.
I’d love to hear about your past weekend. What did you do?
Birthday Celebrations and Dessert!
An Old-Fashioned Watering Method Becomes ‘Hip’ Again…
DIYI posted a photo of the uniquely-shaped pottery that I came across at a local nursery, yesterday on facebook and asked you to guess what they were used for.
This unglazed pottery was commonly used in arid regions long ago to store both food and water. They are called ollas.
Ollas are making a comeback in the garden – particularly in arid regions.
Why?
Ollas are a great way to deep water plants.
They are buried so that only the top is exposed. Water is added and slowly seeps through the walls of the olla, providing uniform moisture to plant’s roots.
The top of the soil remains dry, so that evaporation is limited and decreases problems with weeds because their roots can’t reach the moist soil underneath.
Ollas can be used in vegetable gardens, containers and among other plants in your garden that may not be attached to an irrigation system.
To use, simply take the lid off, and fill with water. Every few days, refill and then let the water slowly percolate into the soil.
There are companies now making ollas for the home gardener. They are not cheap. The ones above were going for $35.
I would love to buy one, but they are not in my budget right now. Maybe I can add one to my Christmas list?
You can make your own inexpensive olla using a plastic milk jug or 2-liter soda bottle, with small holes punched all around and then bury it.
OR, you can take two unglazed tera-cota pots and glue them together with silicone. *Learn how to make both types of homemade versions, here.
I really like when the old-fashioned ways of doing things come back into style. Technology is a wonderful thing, but it doesn’t mean that the older ways of doing things is obsolete.
**For those of you who would like to purchase an olla, like the ones pictured above – they are available at local Summerwinds nurseries throughout the Phoenix area.
For those of you who live elsewhere, here is a link to the company who created the ollas in the photos above.