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Maureen Mood:
busy
Status:
Rains over, waiting for the wildflowers!
Updated:
Mar 21, 2010, 23:37 CDT
Lifetime Points:
849
Location:
Palm Springs, California
About Me
Professional horticulturist, garden designer and writer/photographer.
Gardening Region View Map
Region 5
My Favorite Plants
Cacti and succulents, herbs, native plants of the West.
Plants Currently in My Garden
My garden here in Palm Springs lives in a tropical desert and I strive to grow as wide a diversity of species as will tolerate our extreme summer heat. It was influenced by my mentor, Clark Moorten of Moorten Botanical Garden in town here. He is a collector of cacti and succulents. I maintain a huge collection of my own cacti and succulents, many rare and propagated from Clark's world class collection. But I also grow desert perennials in a cottage garden.
I love to garden, because....
Gardening and the plant kingdom roots us into the earth. Plants also define locale more than anything else, and they have history with every culture, linking me in my little piece of ground with humanity around the globe.
Biggest Gardening Challenge
Here in Palm Springs it is unquestionably the extreme desert heat which can reach 120 degrees in the summer but averages about 110 for July and August.
If I'm not gardening, I can be found:
Riding my quarter horse Sassy out into the wildlands of the desert outside town, whhere trails go on FOREVER. I also escape the heat by going horse camping in the mountains during the summer.
Other Hobbies
I have always been creative and though my time is split between garden, horse and work, when there is leftover time I love to create glass mosaics which adorn my garden.
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