CCSN’s Desert Garden Center: a community nursery
The Desert Garden Center at CCSN offers a wealth of desert planting information and plants. CCSN students both staff the Desert Garden Center, learning valuable skills for life after graduation, and nurture the plants to keep them healthy.
The retail plant nursery specializes in Mojave native and desert adapted plants. The Desert Garden Center’s charter is to be an educational partner, helping students and the community understand what grows best in Las Vegas weather conditions. Regardless of the season, the Center is an ideal place to purchase plants at prices typically below that of retail nurseries.
The Desert Garden Center is unique in that not only is it the premier source of hard to find, rare and unusual plants, it’s also part of CCSN’s ornamental horticulture program. The Center carries everything from groundcovers to trees, perennials, cactus and succulents. It also has an extensive source of information sheets for all gardening needs: native plants, advantages of xeriscape, poolside and container gardening, desert tortoise plants, etc.
We’re headed into summer temperatures, so now’s the time to finish up your water-smart planting, before it gets too hot.
Comments
Wow!! I've lived here for over 20 years and had NO IDEA that CCSN had the garden to peruse and a retail nursery area. Thanks SO much for the tip!! I'll visit it TODAY.
Posted by: Kim | June 1, 2007 08:37 AM
Do students ever need Internships, I have a yard that has a lot of potential, however I am a beginning Gardner.
I moved here from Northern California, my garden consisted of Wild Flowers and Roses. In the year that I've had my Vegas home I have wasted over 100.00 in purchasing plants just to see them die.
Also I have tons of large landscape rocks, too many, Do you have any idea how I can deplete my supply.
Thank You for your response,
Wanabe-Gardener, Renee
Posted by: Renee | July 11, 2007 10:36 AM