A resilient garden
Looking for ideas to improve your garden? Wondering how to help your garden survive our intense climate? Interested in less work?
Larry Lynam will discuss the lessons he learned as he prepared his Tucson home garden for the 2024 Pima County Master Gardener Home Tour. After 8 months of intensive gardening and landscape preparation for the April tour, he and his partner hosted over 1,200 guests viewing their home garden. He will share the best practices developed or vetted by the University of Arizona agricultural and climate research that he has incorporated in his own gardens to help make it more resilient and resistant to our changing desert climate. Participants will enjoy the garden as Larry provides ideas for helping you create an efficient, attractive, and inviting landscape that brings joy year-round.
Larry Lynam
Your Southeast Pinal County Master Gardeners are pleased to invite you to our Community Education Presentation Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 1 p.m. at SaddleBrooke Ranch Sol Ballroom, 31143 S. Amenity Dr., Oracle AZ 85623. This topic this month is Lessons Learned to Create a Beautiful, Resilient Garden.
Larry learned a lot as he prepared his yard. He will share the best practices developed or vetted by the University of Arizona agricultural and climate research that he has incorporated in his own gardens to help make them more resilient and resistant to our changing desert climate. He wants participants to leave the session with ideas for helping to create an efficient, attractive, and inviting landscape that brings year-round enjoyment. Participants will learn ideas about how to make a garden that is more satisfying and less of a frustrating chore.
After a 30+ year career as an infectious diseases microbiologist, Larry left the biopharmaceutical industry and established a freelance science writing and teaching business. His work took him to assignments in 69 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Although a scientist by training, Larry has long been a garden enthusiast. For generations his family has been involved in farming, plant development, and gardening.
Throughout his travels, Larry always made time to explore the local flora, gardening practices, and gathered ideas he could adopt for his own garden. In 2010, Larry took the University of Florida Broward County Master Gardener Course in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and developed a lush and inviting tropical garden. When he relocated to the Sonoran Desert in 2021, he took the University of Arizona Pima County Master Gardener program in Tucson to learn how to garden properly in our distinctly different and challenging desert climate.
Larry is an active member of the Pima County Master Gardeners serving on their Plant Clinic team, New Master Gardener Training Program, and the University of Arizona Campus Arboretum tour team. He also volunteers as a docent at Tohono Chul where he is a speaker in their educational and public enrichment programs as well as a docent rover and tour leader.
For further information, please contact: diliegghio@arizona.edu