The Mojave landscape provides such a stunning backdrop for starting a garden. Is it any wonder that so many of us take up a trowel?

Since the Mojave is the overall hottest and driest desert in North America, overcoming our challenges requires observation, experimenting, and bucking up to a few failures. But with a tiny bit of supplemental water and healthy soil, scrappy drought tolerant plants transform into abundant and pampered landscape plants.

Check out our planting and watering videos for some how-to demos. Dig around in this site for more details like shopping resources, links to all kinds of cool blogs, and other surprises. Explore plant selection, plant placement, planting, watering, and soil basics.

For even more ideas, plan to join our Desert-Wise Landscape Tour on April 27, 2025 to see inspiring gardens and talk with the people who created them. In the meantime, indulge in watching dozens of short video tours in our growing YouTube library. We encourage you to subscribe to our YouTube channel as higher numbers will support future grant funding for more videos!