The Small Sunny Garden

Follow along with my adventures gardening in the Sonoran Desert, whether you are a drylands gardener yourself or simply enjoy watching the ups and downs, discoveries, disasters, and incredible beauty of life in a desert garden.

The Place and the Plan

The Small Sunny Garden is a young garden on a hillside overlooking the lower San Pedro River valley in southern Arizona. This is a very special place, a throughway for many migrating birds and the low country below sky islands in the Santa Catalina Mountains. The garden itself looks across the river valley at the ancient Galiuro Mountains.

I am slowly establishing plantings based on local native plants, along with Mediterranean and Australian natives that enjoy similar growing conditions. In addition, I am forming small collections of antique bearded irises and roses. I am not a purist, but a plantsman with a love for roses, bulbs, lavenders, salvias, and hummingbirds, among many other things!

I hope you will join me in this happy adventure.