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The rabbit pellets have alfalfa in them and you don't have the smell and the epsom salts ahave the magnesium. Fish fertilizer is another good one for roses.

My guess, since I also live in the desert, is not the lack of water but the alkaline soil. If you don't plant in pots where you use pottong soil, and plant directly in the soil then it needs to be ammended. We bought 2.5 acres in the high desert here in CA and there was nothing on it but wild...

What a winner. I have the regular Peace rose and it does very well for me. I have one no matter where I've lived. Now I'm retired and hopefully have moved for the last time I can enjoy my roses. One of the first I planted when we moved here was Peace and my other favorites, Mr. Lincoln, John...

I also live in a hot dry climate in the high desert of CA. My tomatoes are doing great this year even with our already hot weather and the infernal wind. I grew Arkansas Travelers a few years ago and they did well but haven't seen any to buy since then. I'm having good luck with "Solar Fire"...

Give them some time to set fruit. Right now everything is going to the tomatoes to get them growing bigger. As you pick them then more nourishment will go to the top. I have a tomato doing the same thing. I live in the high desert though and tomatoes have a rough go of it between the heat...

My garden is doing great. We had summer squash for dinner tonight along with a tomato. There is nothing like a home grown tomato. I have zucchini and okra about ready and a few hads of cabbage still growing/ It's hot-102 today- so the tomatoes will ripen quicker. I need to get some shade...

I like that saying, "country folk will survive." I'm from BYC but haven't been on here in a while since I haven't been getting notifications. I'm in the desert but my garden is stupendous this year. I just brought in a tomato, a summer squash and a zucchini. We'll have them for dinner. Last...

I planted a succulent in a pot to keep indoors until after our last freeze. I bought it at the LA Botanical Gardens last Saturday when we were in Pasadena. I also bought an Iris Germanica which is a bearded iris but it's a German Hybreid. I'm interested to see how it does here in the desert...

I planted a bluberry bush day before yesterday. Cabbage, collards, onions doing fine, so are the bare root roses I put in. Too windy today to work outside and yesterday we went to Lancaster, 76 miles south and it snowed. So pretty and only lasted about an hour so we had a clear road home.

It is time for bare root planting and cold weather crops here in the high desert. I have cabbage and onions up and I just planted a blackberry bush, raspberry bush and blue berry. I will have to watch the PH on the blueberry since it likes an acid soil and ours leans more to the alkali. We've...

I order from Jackson Perkins as well as buy local. Sometimes local doesn't give you much choice. Home Depot this year had practically nothing at our store here in the high desert. I love New Dawn also. One of my favorites is the Ceceil Brunner cliber. It just grows and grows. The blossoms...

It will look lovely I'm sure.

I've planted three new bare root roses and two Crinum lily's and today I bought a six pack of collard plants I want to try to plant here.

How lovely. I have one similar in color but not as pretty. I have all colors too.

Irises will grow just about anywhere. I live in the desert and mine are beautiful. They do require full sun though or just a little shade. Rebloomers need more water in the summer than the regular varieties so they have the energy to rebloom in the fall. Other than that they are drought...

I received some small flowering bulbs from my granddaughter for Christmas so want to plant them in pots this week and hope they bloom for spring. I don't remember all of them but some are squill and windflowers and some type of iris.

I buy iris from Sutton's Iris Farm, they have a website and they ship all over. I've been buying from them for over 10 years and they'll ship when it's right for your zone and throw in some freebies.

I have one that is such a dark purple it looks black at a distance. I have a burgundy one that looks the same way also.

I'm in the high desert and we can grow some crops in winter but we get temps in the teens and twenties here in winter but it goes up in the 60's during the day. If I cover my crops at night they do pretty good. Our problem is more the wind when it is cold. It just shrivels up everything not...

I just transplanted two Desert Bird of Paradise. They looked out of place when we widened the driveway and one was actually in the way. They're dormant so it was a good time to move them. I also had a pine tree and a palo verde seedling growing in the same place so had to dig both up...