Harner Studio Landscape Design

04/07/2026

Concept sketch & overlay for a front yard.

02/11/2026

It's 📚Technical Tuesday! 🌿This series aims to broaden your botanical and horticultural horizons. Join us every Tuesday!
📸 Photo credit: Canva

08/07/2025

Love seeing designs come to life!

09/27/2022

Fig stealing bandits! 😡

08/02/2022

First fruits! Sort of…seems we are sharing our tomatoes with some local wildlife.

05/01/2022

Go ladybug 🐞 go! Where are your buddies?

04/27/2021

A good point. We need to protect our beautiful and tough flora.

Please don't dig cactuses from the wild, and don't buy them from roadside vendors selling from a pickup truck. They are often poached illegally unless they can show you a current plant collection or salvage permit from the state. The ones flowering here are a natural hybrid from southern NM, with colors not often seen in nature but with genetic remix of Echinocereus species. This cluster was grown from seed by a reputable cactus nursery. There are all the wonderful, seed-grown cactuses you could want now available inexpensively. Don't contribute to the extinction crises in our wildlands.

04/10/2020

The Oklahoma Redbud (Cercis canadensis) is a favorite tree for its stunning spring flower show and large, heart-shaped leaves.

12/18/2019

This is wonderful news!

NMSU to have the only botanic garden in New Mexico within 100 miles.

06/04/2019

Vote for this Rio Rancho 1st Grader's Google Doodle, representing New Mexico! Love the apple tree!

Help us pick the five State and Territory Winners who will go on to become National Finalists. All you have to do is click on a Doodle you like. From there, you can learn about the artist and cast your vote for each of the five grade groups. You can do this anytime between June 3rd at 9:00am PDT unt...