Next weekend’s Desert-Wise Landscape Tour is a rite of spring exclusive to our Morongo Basin. Explore native desert landscapes that are both drought-tolerant and unique, and take home ideas for your own garden spaces. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has your invitation…
Sponsored by the Morongo Basin Conservation Association, the popular two-day, self-guided tour spotlights 21 unique properties. Saturday, April 27, will feature 11 sites from Twentynine Palms and points west. Sunday features 10 locations from Morongo Valley and points east. Map and guide in hand, tour-goers will explore the mostly private properties, each selected for blending low water use with artful desert living. Along the way, participants will meet the homeowner-experts and docents from the Morongo Basin Conservation Association.
The tour features an abundance of native, drought-tolerant and water-efficient gardens that highlight creative uses of landscape elements from dramatic architectural shading and outdoor “rooms,” to reflective trails and sitting areas. A $10 per person donation is requested; $5 for members of the Morongo Basin Conservation Association. More information and registration is available at mbconservation.org, or register in person at the Yucca Valley Earth Day event this Saturday, April 20.
