High & Dry GardenWorks

07/23/2026

Before we know about a fire, they are on the watch...
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07/21/2026

Without a doubt, this has been the worst garden season yet! Aphids, late mid June freezes, wildfire smoke, gophers and, the most distructive, assumed herbacide drift. I am potentially loosing well established plants...raspberries, ninebark, mountain mahogany, sand cherry, low gro sumac, ponderosa pine...I won't know until next spring, as I hold on to hopes of recovery. I cut some things back as soon as I suspected to try to stop the damage. Many of my flowers produced distorted curled stems. 🌱💔😢🌻

07/04/2026

Timely!
Hot weather gardening...
https://garden.org/learn/articles/view/4389/Gardening-in-Hot-Weather/?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=nl_2026-07-04

06/06/2026

Cactus Garden is looking great this year.

05/21/2026

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year after year, by the slow erosion of the planet's largest desert thousands of miles away.

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200 million tons of fine particulate dust gets picked up from the Sahara Desert by trade winds, lifted i...

05/10/2026

So many local vendors to see at Spring Garden Fair May 30, 9 AM - 1 PM, at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center. They include us of course (we will offer tomatoes, herbs, vegetables and flowers), but also The Rustic Garden (foreground); Madras Garden Depot; Redmond Garden Club; Bend Urban Gardens LLC; High & Dry GardenWorks; Still Waters Lavender; The Vegetable Corner; Krafty Kampers; Wild Wisdom Wool Pellet Co.; Stilts; Flannel, Felt, and Fancies; It's My Fun; and NDJ Crafts. More details: https://www.gocomga.com/spring-garden-fair .

05/09/2026

Creating a Butterfly Garden

https://garden.org/learn/articles/view/3158/Creating-a-Butterfly-Garden/?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=nl_2026-05-09

05/01/2026

Even with forceps, this is what weeding the cactus garden looks like 🌵😖🩸🩹

04/23/2026

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

04/18/2026

https://garden.org/learn/articles/view/3522/Sustainable-Landscaping-and-Gardening/

Sustainability is a word we hear often these days, in many contexts. But what exactly does it mean? In its broadest definition, it means practicing environmental stewardship so that we meet our pre...