East Coaster Makes Desert Garden Bloom

Gardening is practically in Heidi Riggs’ veins.

Her earliest memories involve tending the family chicken coop (or at least being corralled there) and gardening with her sister.

So eight years ago, when she and her husband moved to Arizona from Connecticut, she knew her lifelong hobby would continue. She just didn’t know how.

“It was like coming to the moon,” Riggs says, describing the transition from her green Eastern garden to dusty desert terrain. “I enrolled in the Master Gardener program a month after being here.”

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