Bring desert-adapted plants into your yard! Buy plants from Mission Garden and Desert Survivors and swap seeds with Mission Garden and Oro House.

Mission Garden will be selling plants including:

• Ironwood (Olneya tesota) trees especially selected for their delicious and numerous edible seeds ("Desert Edamame") and deep purplish flowers.

• Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba). Original cultivar collected from the former garden of Alyce Wong, behind the family's Lucky's Market on Meyer Ave.

• Sweet lime (Citrus x limetta). This sweet and aromatic citrus variety is a unique heirloom in our borderlands region. 

• Tularosa Mission Grape (Vinis vinifera). This particular variety of Mission Grape has the pedigree of being the first grape planted in what is now the southwest United States, during the mid 1600s by Spanish settlers in New Mexico. 

• Loquat (Ziziphus jujuba). This variety of the evergreen fruit tree is especially adapted to the Tucson region, although afternoon shade during the summer months is recommended.

• Seville orange (Citrus x aurantium) The hardiest of citrus trees, these trees produce abundant fruit that can be used in myriad dishes (where one might otherwise use lemons or limes) in addition to the classic orange marmalade. The dried blossoms are used as a calming teas.

  (Quantities of all plants are limited.)