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reads | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. What I’m Into Right Now. Sun Sticks and Mud. 8211; Kaltenbach, Anschel. Any applicable project of mine). Recharge Rates and Chemistry Beneath Playas of the High Plains Aquifer. 8211; US Geological Service. 8211; Pavlik, Muick, Johnson, Popper. Gardening in a Small Space. Sustainable Design: A Planbook for Sustainable Sonoran Desert Dwellings. Tucson Institute for Sustainable Communities. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. Still Here, on Pause.
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about | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. Desert Dweller Shaper of the Land. I’m a landscape architect, but unlike many I’ve met. It’s important to embrace and know the intimate connection between climate, place, process, and patterns. Me on a 5/2012 garden tour in Austin TX. So, I tend to only make more time for peers who also get it, especially those who I can learn from and who also want to learn. Time is too short for anything less or skimming the surface. Those who get it are. Spending t...
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Yuccas and Rock | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. After 23 years living in the desert southwest, if a person despises rough terrain and spiky plants, they may wish to move along. After all, that’s what endures here –. A yucca, rock for mulch, sideoats for grass. I’ve only grown to embrace, not resist, such challenges as something to inform a simpler, more appealing aesthetic for outdoor living. Regard. Yuccas and rocks…add sotol, damianitas and a live oak clump. This entry was posted in Design. A shu...
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inventory | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. My list of garden plants to date, comprised of various containers. On my home’s small patios, in the sandy hills just west of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Updated pics from here coming). Arizona Beargrass / Nolina microcarpa, with:. 1) Bishop’s Cap / Astrophytum myriostigma (L back). 1) Megata / Astrophytum nudum (R). 4) ncn / Copiapoa esmeraldana (front). 2) Torch Cactus / Echinopsis grandiflorus (L, R back). Squid Agave / Agave bracteosa (gift). I reshap...
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location | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. My home garden is the patio of a small apartment, in a historic building in El Paso, Texas. It’s the largest city on the US-Mexican border; in fact, I’m about 1/2 mile from the border. But more importantly to anything garden than political boundary or perception: I’m in the midst of the Chihuahuan Desert. Average / annual stats). Chihuahuan Desert (Creosote Bush-Sotol-Lechuguilla association). 3,860′ above sea level. Gravel, andesite, clay. 8211; the ...
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links | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. Some useful and even nerdy links to maps and items of geography, offering much insight on the climates and ecological communities we garden in. I don’t exist or wing it on popular perceptions, but live and embrace reality. To design a landscape with living plants that people and wildlife want to be in, it helps to always be open and learn. Overall Gegraphy –. BONAP maps (plants, climate, soils, relationships). Http:/ www.bonap.org/. Much of the US.
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Desert Dweller | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. Author Archives: Desert Dweller. Still Here, on Pause. A quick update, as some have asked, “. What happened to you? 8221; – my last blog post shows as “09.28.15”! I’m running on fewer cylinders than my engine requires! Until it’s time to add back other things, here’s one last bit since 09.28 –. Namely McKittrick Canyon. I finally made it, each year unable to go, not that I was really able this year –. I mostly need those universals of. Find, or I̵...
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Purple Rain, Warm August Night | It's A Dry Heat
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It's A Dry Heat. Outdoor living on the border beyond. Purple Rain, Warm August Night. Proof positive not only “northern and central New Mexico” get purple rain. What an incredible decompression my latest drive to Marfa was, once off I-10. Photos from below Valentine TX, 8/10/2015 –. Distant storms, dry on US-90. Texas…far west Texas. The state grass, Bouteloua curtipendula. Chihuahuan desert grassland in one of its many forms. Too bad the. And I got this room. This entry was posted in Ecoregion. Those ol...
