Wildlife Gardening: Desert yard (in progress), 1 by oldmudhouse

oldmudhouse wrote:
I’ve been pestering you folks for ways to improve our desert yard for wildlife. Equilibrium asked if I had photos, so here’s a little tour. We haven’t lived here very long so we’re still figuring out what we’d like to do. My photos aren’t great, but hopefully they’ll give you a general idea of what we’re working with.


This is pretty typical of our front yard, a large north-facing slope, sun-baked and hot. The scraggly bushes are creosote, not looking very happy in our current drought. Scattered prickly pear, mainly Purple Prickly Pear (Opuntia macrocentra). I don’t know how to ID our big yuccas yet. Lots of bare sand for lizards, quail, and the occasional roadrunner to scoot around on.