Arizona Herb Association

10/02/2026

🌿 Fall Plant Sale Alert! 🌵🐝

Our friends at the Center for Native and Urban Wildlife (CNUW) at Scottsdale Community College are holding their 2026 Fall Plant Sale, and this is a great one for Arizona gardeners.
📅 Thursday, October 22 & Friday, October 23
🕙 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
📍 Scottsdale Community College Greenhouse
9000 E. Chaparral Road, Scottsdale
Park in Lot I for the closest access.

They’ll have a wonderful selection of native and desert-adapted plants, including:
🌱 Native plants
🌵 Cacti & succulents
🌳 Trees & shrubs
🪴 Houseplants & hanging plants
💧 Aquatic plants
🐝 Bee posts
🌸 Seed packets
🐦 Hummingbird swings
…and plenty of planting and care advice! …

This is also a fundraiser supporting CNUW’s work, so you can add something new to your garden while supporting a great local program.
♻️ Have empty nursery pots piling up? Bring them along! CNUW reuses donated pots and accepts them at the greenhouse gate throughout the year.
💵 Cash or check only — checks should be made payable to SCC.

Herbies, this could be a particularly good opportunity to find some interesting native plants and pollinator-friendly additions for the fall garden. 🌿🦋

Questions? Contact Natalie Case at 480-423-6737 or [email protected]

09/25/2026

In-Person Class / Phoenix, AZ
“Vines With Purpose”
Everything you need to know about choosing, planting & growing vines in Sonoran Desert landscapes.
Sunday October 11, 2026 at the demo gardens at University of Arizona Cooperative Extension in Phoenix
$20 PRE-REGISTER BELOW👇🏼 to guarantee a space.
Vines for pollinators, hummingbirds, fruit harvest, screening👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼-mike

09/20/2026

Northeast metro-Phoenix, Fountain Hills - Great Gardening Classes taught by local gardening guru Carol Stuttard coming soon. See Flier Below for dates, times, class details. Only $30 Register In Advance for some true expertise that will get your garden to produce!
Https//www.FountainHillsAZ.gov/rec
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼😁-Mike

09/10/2026

09/07/2026

Great tips on telling our Sonoran Desert year round resident QUEEN Butterflies from their Fall-Winter-Spring cousins MONARCH Butterflies.
September is a great month to visit your favorite local nursery to buy and plant some Milkweeds and nectar plants in your yard and landscape.
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼-Mike

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc_3YrlASty/?img_index=2&stkn=MW5pbDF2M282M3Q4MA==

09/01/2026

Fun video on the at the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension in Phoenix. Follow these two City of Phoenix sites for additional clips in future👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🐝🦋🐦‍⬛
Mike

08/16/2026

BLACK-EYED SUSANS Video Update below with Herbies and Maricopa County Master Gardeners Mindy and Courtney. These summer blooming, pollinator friendly wildflowers are easy to grow in Low Desert Arizona gardens with irrigation. Rudbeckia hirta plants can grow as annuals, biennials or weak perennials in our growing conditions - all from the same packet of seeds. Plant seeds in late winter to early spring here for the best success, and blooms the first spring through summer. Blooms are yellow, often with streaks or stripes of bronze, red and brown and up to 3-4 inches in diameter. Small seed eating birds including Verdins, Lesser Goldfinches and House Finches all love to eat the tiny sunflower-type seeds, so leave some of the bloomed stalks standing to feed your local hungry birds in the summer.
Thank you Donna Lorch for your videography skills -Mike

08/07/2026

Friday August 21, 2026
From 8:00 thru 10:00am
No Charge, Free - Must Pre-Register To Attend
*Home Gardeners and Small Farmers Welcome
SEED STARTING WORKSHOP
In person, in Phoenix taught by experts at the Center for Urban Smart Agriculture at University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
REGISTER IN ADVANCE at Link Below or through QRCode-Mike
**See Workshop Details Below**

https://events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/g/vHfTy21bc5/seed-starting-workshop-5a3UV42dDaX

08/06/2026

THIS Friday August 7th from 8:00 to 10:00am at University of Arizona Cooperative Extension office in Phoenix, just south of I-10. Address Details Sent With Your Registration Confirmation
**Crop Planning and Efficient Garden Design Workshop**
Pre-REGISTER FREE CLASS
CLICK LINK BELOW or SCAN QR👇🏼
IN-PERSON LIVE CLASS Taught by regional experts. -mike

https://events.trellis.arizona.edu/f44lNu67/5a3UV42dDVh

08/02/2026

FREE Native Crops event. Heirloom Crops For Monsoon Planting
REGISTRATION REQUIRED - scan QR Code
Center For Urban Smart Agriculture

https://extension.arizona.edu/center-urban-smart-agriculture

Monday August 3, 2026 at 7:00am through 9:00am
PHOENIX, AZ - Address shown
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension

-Mike