navigate the incredible biodiversity of your region

Choose the best plant materials for your garden!

A desert-style backyard garden with a stone pathway, surrounded by various colorful flowering plants, cacti, and palm trees, with a mountain and house in the background.

Interested in pollinator gardens and habitat restoration? Do you have a yard full of potential? I’ve got you covered!

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I offer consultation services, plant procurement and delivery, collaborative garden installations and specialty gardens. Schedule a garden consult and let’s dive in.

My Approach

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Use plants that naturally grow here - as many species as possible. No pesticides. Have fun!

Collection of various cacti and succulents in pots on a truck bed outdoors, with a clear blue sky and leafless trees in the background.

Garden Guidance

Extend your learning off-line with a 90 min, onsite, one-on-one garden consultation. Get a custom bloom calendar with recommended species, cost estimate for delivery and placement of plants, recommendations summary with suggestions on where to plant what. Together, let’s discover the plants that will thrive in your garden and help pollinators and other wildlife flourish.

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Download my Bloom Calendars to help guide you in creating a colorful garden all year round.

Good Vibes

  • A yellow butterfly perched on a red and orange flower in a garden.

    “Carianne is a leading expert on native plants & restorations who has an amazing talent for planting lovely residential gardens. She continues to be a delightful collaborator helping me to successfully implement my gardening vision. Snap her up if she has a opening!”

    Jennifer Robinson

  • Close-up of pink flowers blooming on tall stems in a garden with potted plants and a brick patio in the background.

    “Carianne is a wealth of information about native plants and where to put them to help them thrive. She obviously loves what she does and it was a joy to work with her. She is so excited about great plants, I want them all! She was knowledgeable, friendly, professional, and punctual.”

    Julia Rowe

  • Close-up of a spherical white flower with many thin, elongated stamens, set against a blurred green background.

    “Carianne is a true gem. She designed/installed a large area of my yard and had irrigation put in. I gave her my vison and she ran with it and did a fantastic job. Not only is she a force and extremely knowledgeable of desert vegetation, she is passionate. Its been a year since she installed the garden and my garden has transformed into a filled out luscious pollinator garden. I look forward to using Carianne again in the future when Im ready to install more in my yard.”

    Shannon Sellers

  • Purple-blue flowers growing on a stem, with fuzzy green cactus pads in the background.

    “Carianne and SHE were great to work with. I explained what I wanted from my backyard--increased privacy, native flowering plants and shrubs to attract birds and butterflies, low maintenance, water frugal, dog friendly--and she selected and installed a lovely variety that will provide consecutive blooms over 9 months of the year. I highly recommend SHE.”

    Patricia Cook

Let’s build your sustainable desert garden

Join me for a collaborative backyard transformation experience that is unique and tailored specifically for your site and gardening style.

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Perfect tree planting at Rio Vista Natural Resources Park! @watershed_mg #urbanhabitat #nativeplants #sustainability
Blackfoot daisies (Melampodium leucanthum) loving the mild weather in the pollinator garden at the @uarizona College of Nursing. @uarizonasustainability #pollinatorgarden #sustainablelandscaping
Another pollinator garden in at @uarizona - this time at the Disability Resource Center! Thanks to @uasfs and @uarizonasustainability ! We added a feather tree, pineleaf milkweed, black dalea, Mexican honeysuckle, and penstemons to a lonely planter.
I added this gorgeous Notocactus ottonis to my personal collection this week. There were a few more available at @tucsoncactusandkoi .....
Snapdragon vine (Maurandella antirrhiniflora) has variable flower color, from red and pink to purple. This one might be my favorite! Available now at @spadefootnursery
Desert marigold, Baileya multiradiata - brings joy to any landscape! Two examples from projects in Oro Valley. #pollinatorgarden #nativepollinatorgarden #sonorandesert
So nice to see the rain garden at St. Philips Episcopal Church in action! This has been a lovely collaboration and it was a joy to give a talk about native plants this weekend! #waterharvesting #nativepollinatorgarden
Spent the morning evaluating vines and shrubs under different irrigation treatments for an ongoing UA study. Always learning! #sustainablelandscaping