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Chilopsis linearis - Desert Willow

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This little tree is flowering in the greenhouse at the school garden. It will be planted this week when my Environmental Science students and I plant a cactus and succulent garden. We have been collecting cactus and other desert flora all year in anticipation of creating a cactus/succulent area in the school garden.

Using nothing but shovels the the students first excavated a 12 x 12 ft hole (~2 ft deep) into the compacted, rocky soil in an unused corner of the garden. Next they mixed in about 2 yds of top soil with the excavated dirt and filled the hole back in. Tomorrow we will be mixing about 1000 lbs of sand into the planting area and creating a small berm of loose, sandy soil. Then the real fun can begin.