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GIANNANGELO FARMS SOUTHWEST AVANT-GARDENING: CREATIVE ORGANIC GARDENING

VIRTUAL PHOTO TOUR III Winter in New Mexico; Native Trees and Shrubs The World Around Us “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.” Dr. Edward O. Wilson

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WINTER IN NEW MEXICO On these winter days visitors asking to see the garden area have to be satisfied with a walk down a snow-shoveled trail, using more imagination than sight, as we talk about garden design and the plants that are resting under the blankets of snow as they wait for spring. The snowdrifts in the fields, snow covered rocks, and icy trees re-define our world, revealing the unseen outlines of the world around us.    Birds in Feeder                                     Ridge Cave            Field Drifts                                      Field and Barn            Zuni Mountains                                      Snow on Ridge         Tree in Rock                                         Pinon Ice            Snow on Pinon Branches                                 Garden Trellis         Old Tricycle                                     Winter Garden         Yard Tree                                         View West            Market                                           Kodiak on the Road            Garden Lantern                                        Garden Trellis         Pool Ice

NATIVE TREES and SHRUBS We live at an elevation ranging from 7,200-7,500 feet. Average annual precipitation is betweeen 15 and 16 inches, a majority portion coming from snowfall during the winter. Winter temperatures can range from 20 degrees to a record of -50. We have found Aligator Juniper, Rocky Mountain Juniper, One Seed Juniper in the Cypress Family; Pinon and Ponderosa in the Pine Family; and in the Oak Family - Shrub Live, Wavy-leaf, and Gambel. Shrubs include wild currents, rabbit brush, Fringed Sagebrush, Broom Snakeweed, Wolfberry, Cane Cholla, Apache Plume, Fourwing Saltbush, Bannana and Narrowleaf Yucca, and Chokecherry. Baby Ponderosa Pine                             Ponderosa Pinecone         Fringed Sagebrush                                     Banana Yucca         Wild Current                             Narrowleaf Yucca Flower         Alligator Juniper                                     Ponderosa Pine

THE WORLD AROUND US We live within a checkerboard area of land divided into State School Land, Navajo Reservation Land, National Parkland, and Private Land, and valleys of grazing land for cattle surrounded by sandstone cliffs and Canyons, and the Zuni Mountain Range. We have a Trading Post, A Navajo School, the Village of Pine Hill and a General Store, A Public School, Three Small Cafes, An Art Gallery/Meeting Center, two RV Parks, A Navajo Chapter House and Village, and The Mormon Town of Ramah hosting a Senior Center, a Post Office, a Volunteer Fire Department, and a Historical Museum. Zuni Mountains                                    Sandstone Cliffs         Calf in Field                                     Fence Line         Navajo Hogan                                 Old Homestead Corral         Rockwall Ruins                                Pine Hill Navajo School

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