Garden Djinn

Sustainable Design

If we think about the tree as a design, it's something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, provides a habitat for hundreds of species, accrues solar energy, makes complex sugars and food, creates micro-climates, self-replicates. So, what would it be like to design a building like a tree? What would it be like to design a city like a forest? So what would a building be like if it were photosynthetic? What if it took solar energy and converted it to productive and delightful use?

—William McDonough

I guess the best thing about being in Arizona? 

I will never need a greenhouse.  In fact, I have a fabulous orange tree in the backyard to act as a nursery/shade tree for the plants I am starting up outdoors. 

I have been harvesting seeds from anything I see that's interesting since I came down here.  Next weekend I am going to mix up a bunch of half native/ half bagged dirt and start out a bunch of trays.  I have no idea what might and might not sprout. 

I am very much 'adventure' gardening this fall. It's all unknown.

Some of the seeds:
Cat claw vine
Palo Verde
Several other varieties of Palo tree... there are a bunch of them out here
Mesquite
Red  'yucca' (actually an agave)
Several other bushes and a few low growing annuals or perennials...

It will be interesting trying to identify the stuff as it comes up!   

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