Xeriscape – Drought-Adaptive Horticulture

Gone Native Index of Essays

Along with the Gone Native Arboretum Photodiary, the following essays focus on the experience of gardening at the edge of town. Together, they make up an “online” book.

Click each title to read the essay.

• Daytripping in the garden [4-12-06]
• The garden 150 years ago (Magoosh the person) [2-18-01]
• Wild in the Garden [9-19-99]
• Irrigationless Gardening [8-11-04]
• No Watering in the Winter [11-26-00]
• Philosophical Pedagogy [12-17-00]
• Plants in the Winter [3-18-01]
• Winter Memories of Water Walks [1-11-04]
• Walk in the Garden [3-4-01]
• Water features [2-20-00]
• Visitors to a pond [3-28-04]
• Brushpiles [5-14-00]
• Windmills revisited [8-3-05]
• Rasquache [9-17-03]
• Gardens heal grief [8-31-03]
• Day of the Dead in the Garden [11-2-05]
• Saints in the Garden [2-29-04]
• Gardens give wildlife a home [2-1-04]
• The Boopster [6-16-02]
• Walk in the rain with a cat [8-29-04]
• Family of skunks [10-28-01]
• Fox Behavior [2-3-02]
• Neighbors to a fox [12-1-02]
• Breakfast interrupted by a fox [12-28-03]
• Fall Report to Frances Williams [11-5-00]
• Nightwalking [10-13-04]
• Yard box turtle [9-26-99]
• Pocket Gopher [6-2-02]
• Agave Stalk visitors [5-9-04]
• Birdfeeding [12-31-00]
• Ravens [9-25-04]
• Cactus Wren [7-1-01]
• Roadrunner and Sharpshinned Hawk [2-4-01]
• Magoosh the roadrunner part 1 [9-12-99]
• Magoosh the roadrunner part 2 [4-23-00]
• Magoosh the roadrunner part 3 [6-4-00]
• Baby Bird on ground [6-20-04]
• Chemistry Lesson from a beetle [8-8-04]
• Rainbugs Circle Dance [7-5-06]
• Too many bugs [8-1-99]
• Springtails [3-17-02]
• 4th of July Butterfly Count [7-14-05]
• Cryptogamic Soil [8-6-06]
• When the rain is not gentle 8-29-06]
• Heat of August [9-23-03]
• Trashdumping [6-4-03]
• County Dogs [3-29-06]
• The passalong plant Winter Jasmine is more than the first bloom of spring [2-13-08]
• Wildfire protection and prevention workshop and thoughts of spring planting [3-18-09]
• Win hundreds of dollars worth of drought adapted plants! [3-25-09]
• Come to the Sibley Nature Center April Plant Sale on Saturday 9 a.m. [4-1-09]
• Get your very own cinnamon toast tree! [4-20-09]
• Xeriscape and Passalong Gardens are full of stories and wildlife [4-29-09]
• Wildlife gardening is an exciting exploration of ecology and culture [10-1-10]
• Gardens tell thousands of stories [3-27-11]