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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This Blog is focused primarily on the Southwest United States and the challanges of growing gardens and landscapes there. </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We all have had great successes, some so-so success, disasters and fatalities in our gardens or landscapes. By sharing what we did right and also the mistakes we made, all of our new gardening community members will benefit.</span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you have a garden question or problem? Post it here and I'm sure someone in our gardening community will have an answer.</span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I look forward to sharing information and gardening experiences with you all and hope you will share yours here too.</span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jim</span></div>