#tucson garden

[blobsandberries]

Pool Infinity in Phoenix Large modern backyard tiles and an infinity hot tub design are examples of a hot tub.

[wandering-jana]

Tucson Botanical Garden, Arizona

[desert-love]

[bumblebeeappletree]

By planting the rain before you plant (with water-harvesting earthworks) you will be able to harvest ALL free waters (such as rainwater, stormwater, greywater, air conditioning condensate, or in this case—broken water line runoff) that exist or appear on site.

We had just completed the passive water-harvesting earthworks (but had not yet planted them) at the Tumamoc Resilience Garden when a water line above the garden burst in the night, and filled the earthworks. The big flow from the broken pipe took the path of the stormwater that the garden and its earthworks were designed to capture. All worked wonderfully! No water was lost—all was harvested within the rain gardens.

In this video Brad Lancaster shows you the captured water, and describes nuances of his design that can help you with your passive water-harvesting designs and implementations.

The site is in the dryland city of Tucson, Arizona where average annual precipitation is 11 inches. Filming was done May 10, 2022 in the middle of our hot, dry season. Summer rains usually come the end of June or early July.

Get more info on how to do this and harvest many other free, on-site waters at:

https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/

where you can buy the new full-color editions of Brad's award-winning books, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" at deep discount direct from Brad at:

https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/s...

For more videos that expand on this one subscribe to this channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/c/HarvestingR...

Tumamoc Resilience Garden

https://tumamoc.arizona.edu/tumamoc-h...

Passive water-harvesting design by Brad Lancaster

Expert backhoe work by Little John Exacavating

Expert rockwork and finishing work of the earthworks by Dryland Design

#rainwater

#waterharvesting

#permaculture

#rainwaterharvesting

[footloose-travel]

A cactus flower of the Ladyfinger cactus Tucson Botanical Gardens

[veritasrose]

Some pics from my trip to the Botanical Gardens with my mom this week!

[cselandscapearchitect]

Growing Lemons in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona

Citrus fruits have long been a staple in the horticultural tapestry of low desert regions, their vibrant hues and invigorating aromas adding a touch of Mediterranean charm to the arid landscapes. Among these sun-soaked oases, the cultivation of lemons emerges as a particularly enticing endeavor. The twin cities of Phoenix and Tucson, cradled by the embrace of the Sonoran Desert, offer an…

[skykittywhatchamahcallit]

I’d fucking kill and die to be able to live ina community in the city where at Least 50% of our resources are community-compiled. Just a fucking block or two guys PLEASE

[formeryelpers]

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N Kinney Rd, Tucson, AZ 85743

Of all the places that we visited during our trip to Tucson, we spent the most time at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Unlike most museums, most of the Desert Museum is outdoors. If you want to learn about the area and stay outdoors, this is the best place to do so. There’s so much to do and see, including live animals like coyotes, javelinas, bears, mountain lions, big horned sheep, bobcat, reptiles, snakes, underground animals, etc., an aquarium with local fish, expansive botanical garden, aviary with birds, gems & minerals, etc. The museum is spread out over 1.5 miles of paved and unpaved paths. These are wheelchair accessible.

We spent about 3.5 hours there but saw everything but the art gallery. We also walked slow. I could easily see spending more time there to catch some of the live demonstrations (e.g., raptor in flight) or catch a guided tour. Like all museums, they have dining options, restrooms, a gift shop. Our favorite part was the beautiful botanical garden (lots of cacti and succulents of course). I also loved the cave feature but the cave was man-made. We learned a lot about Arizona’s desert, flora, and fauna.

General admission tickets are $29.95 with discounts for military, local residents, seniors, and youth. Free admission for children under 3. Open daily.

5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

[thewordygreenlion]

Favorite Cacti: The Crooked Finger-Crossing Saguaro on the hill behind my house

Appreciation for the leaning saguaro with their fingers crossed on the hill behind my house.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is like a hacienda style castle, I guess. It's very vibrant, according to the listing, and you can tell it is by the bright orange exterior. Built in 1981 in Tucson, AZ, it has 4bds, 3ba, 4,297 sq ft, $1.35m.

Enter the hypnotic entrance hall. If you like this color combination, you'll like the rest of the house.

To the left, step down to a large, bright orange sunken living room.

To the right is the dining room. The walls are done in sponge technique faux finishes.

The color scheme of the entrance hall carries throughout the house into the kitchen.

Nice area for the kitchen table by the windows in the family room.

Family room with fireplace has a door to a covered patio.

Large orange primary bedroom has a Mexican style corner fireplace.

Gigantic bath even has stairs to the upper floor.

Stone shower looks like it's in one of the towers.

The stairs come up to this room, that looks like it may be the closet/dressing room.

In this secondary bedroom they removed the closet doors, put in shelving, and hung a curtain rod, instead.

One of the smaller baths. Don't like these colors and tiles.

Very large storage room/pantry and laundry room.

It doesn't look like this garage was ever used.

Look at the size of this sun room.

Outside there's a patio.

Another outdoor area with a pergola.

Lovely gardens with a fountain.

Plus a pool with hot tub.

.85 acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6281-N-Camino-Katrina-Tucson-AZ-85718/8441370_zpid/?

[wandering-jana]

[probablyasocialecologist]

What if Tucson’s million new trees — and the rest of the country’s — didn’t just keep sidewalks cool? What if they helped feed people, too? That’s what Brandon Merchant hopes will happen on the shadeless south side of Tucson, a city where about one-fifth of the population lives more than a mile from a grocery store. He’s working on a project to plant velvet mesquite trees that thrive in the dry Sonoran Desert and have been used for centuries as a food source. The mesquite trees’ seed pods can be ground into a sweet, protein-rich flour used to make bread, cookies, and pancakes. Merchant, who works at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, sees cultivating mesquite around the city and surrounding areas as an opportunity to ease both heat and hunger. The outcome could be a network of  “food forests,” community spaces where volunteers tend fruit trees and other edible plants for neighbors to forage. “Thinking about the root causes of hunger and the root causes of health issues, there are all these things that tie together: lack of green spaces, lack of biodiversity,” Merchant said. (The food bank received half a million dollars from the Biden administration through the Inflation Reduction Act.) Merchant’s initiative fits into a national trend of combining forestry — and Forest Service funding — with efforts to feed people. Volunteers, school teachers, and urban farmers in cities across the country are planting fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and other edible plants in public spaces to create shade, provide access to green space, and supply neighbors with free and healthy food. These food forests, forest gardens, and edible parks have sprouted up at churches, schools, empty lots, and street corners in numerous cities, including Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, and Miami. “It’s definitely growing in popularity,” said Cara Rockwell, who researches agroforestry and sustainable food systems at Florida International University. “Food security is one of the huge benefits.” There are also numerous environmental benefits: Trees improve air quality, suck carbon from the atmosphere, and create habitat for wildlife, said Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, an urban forestry expert at James Madison University in Virginia. “I think food forests are gaining popularity alongside other urban green space efforts, community gardens, green rooftops,” she added. “All of those efforts, I think, are moving us in a positive direction.”

[aberrantceramics]

Morel Mushroom Garden Mug

Available in my Etsy and at local events in Tucson.

[captainkirkk]

✩ WEEKLY FIC ROUND-UP ✩

All the fics I’ve read and really enjoyed in the past week-ish. Reminder: This list features any and all ratings and themes. Please look at tags and warnings on ao3 before reading.

The Magnus Archives/ What We Do In the Shadows (Crossover)

gaslight gatekeep girlboss by thepolysyndetonaddictsupportgroup

"Look, believe it or not, I had no intention of killing the Vampiric Council when I came here,” declares Nadja, sitting alone on the couch. “But Guillermo and I arrived at the first council meeting and did the whole, you know, the whole thing, the first day thing. Introductions and all that, yes hello wonderful to meet you, yes this is my bodyguard, yes he has slaughtered a tremendous number of our kind”--she flaps her hand absently--“normal first day things, you know? It was fine.” She pauses. “It got really fucking weird on the second day."

Or: Nadja and Guillermo seize control of vampiric politics, puppeteer world powers, and have the hottest of hot girl summers.

Unfortunately, they also really miss the stupid assholes they're in love with. With no way left to find them, they have no choice but to consult an Archivist.

DC/Danny Phantom Crossover

Teenage Hero Burnout #56: Interview With A Ghost. by STOVE

Red Robin, (aka Tim Drake) decides to host a YouTube series called "Teenage Hero Burnout'' after he makes a video by the same name talking about his own experiences. He interviews current and past heroes who started their careers as teens and discuss how it shaped their outlook on heroing & life in general.

(This fic is a one-shot. Teenage Hero Burnout is a hypothetical series that I will not be writing, but others are welcome to write their own episodes.)

All For the Game

One More Time (With Feeling) by elesary

Andrew Minyard went to sleep next to Neil Josten in their bed in Denver six years after graduation. He woke up on plane to Tucson between Wymack and Kevin, on their way to recruit Neil Josten, striker sub.

boyfriend privileges by mostly_maudlin

Andrew knows he treats Neil different. So why is it so bothersome that everyone else seems to know it, too?

Five times Neil gets boyfriend privileges, and one time it doesn't piss Andrew off.

SVSSS

The Peace Between Divine Pec- ah-hm sorry - uh…Peaks by AceOfDivineChlorophyll

Well, being kidnapped and tied up had to be the worst part of Shen Qingqiu's day right? Surely it couldn't get worse even if he was being presented to some new and upcoming demonic warlord as tribute after all it would all be mote when Luo Binghe escaped the Endless Abyss right? Well... unless the demonic warlord in question WAS Luo Binghe.

Thankfully... it might not end up going at all how he, or the demons, thought it was going to.

invasive blindfold removal surgery by postcardorigami

Part 1 of side effects may include indefinite photosensitivity

Oh, he thought absently, dizzily. Oh. I love him. I really, really love him.

That wasn’t a new thought—Shen Qingqiu had always known that he loved Luo Binghe. Thinking otherwise wasn’t a concept that had occurred to him. He’d loved him as a fictional character, as a sticky and eager-to-please disciple, as a troubled young man. He loved Luo Binghe the same way he loved the world around him: easily, wordlessly, endlessly, and in full acceptance of all faults and flaws.

But this- this felt like-

I think, Shen Qingqiu thought, for the first time in this life or the one he’d left, I think I’m in love with him.

And- and then-

I want to tell him where I come from.

or Shen Qingqiu, in order: hits the ground, pulls himself back up, and comes out. About several things.

Dreaming of Gardens in the Desert Sand by TGP

Huan Hua Palace master Luo Binghe never thought there'd be any reason to worry about the master that threw him away all those years ago. Surely, he was safe and cared for by the martial siblings he'd so thoroughly enamored.

Luo Binghe was wrong.

(Or, the one where the Jinlan City event doesn't happen and Luo Binghe's plan to slowly show he can be a righteous cultivator actually goes as he expected, with consequences he did not)

starry-eyed by shoutowo

"Shi-Shizun,” Luo Binghe says, going cross-eyed in an effort to see what Shen Qingqiu just placed on his forehead. “What is this?”

“A star,” Shen Qingqiu explains, while not explaining at all.

or, Shen Qingqiu has a sticker sheet.

Clone Wars

(you were) meant to save them by cjwritesfanficnow

The building was only five stories. With the gravity on Melida/Daan, it should’ve been over in seconds... but he—

just—

kept—

falling—

And then there was nothing around him, but he was still falling, down down down, infinitely, through space, stretched thin, twisted and pulled and the Force curled so tightly around him that he couldn’t tell where he ended and it began, and then—

And then he was falling straight out of a clear sky and down down down—

Onto another battlefield.

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In which Obi-Wan is abruptly transported from the civil war on Melida/Daan to the Clone Wars.

(Alternately, in which I noticed how few clones there are in all my other fics, and this wouldn't leave me alone.)

Tactical Engagements by elwenyere

Even before he managed to open his eyes, Obi-Wan felt the tug against the base of his neck, the snarled thread of energy that only ever meant one thing: something had gone very, very wrong.

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Or, Cody, Obi-Wan, and the 212th are sent to Ringo Vinda with Anakin and the 501st, and it changes the field of engagement.

[footloose-travel]

Looks like a snake scene from an Indian Jones movie. Long-mamma cactus Tucson Botanical Gardens