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Prescott Garden Keeping - September Edition

9/1/2025

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🌿 September in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

September in Prescott is a moment of graceful transition.  It's late summer here.  The garden is often at its peak, with fruits ripening, flowers still blooming, and cooler evenings offering relief from the heat. It’s a month to harvest generously, plant fall crops, and enjoy the momentum of a thriving high-desert garden.
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Prescott garden keeping - august edition

8/1/2025

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🌿 August in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch
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August celebrates the start of harvest season in Prescott’s high desert. With monsoon rains continuing, your garden should be in full summer mode - filled with produce, flowers, and growth. It’s a month to enjoy your garden’s bounty and prepare for the cooler months ahead.
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No - not a planted mushroom! Just came along because the soil was healthy :)

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artful uses of budget garden materials

7/21/2025

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Gardening, on a budget?  Sounds like an oxymoron to me!  

Let's face it.  We all start out with a fabulous idea for the perfect addition to our garden or landscape, and inevitably realize that it's more complicated and expensive that we imagined.

Sometimes there's just no getting around it - some projects, whether you do-it-yourself or hire someone are just going to be pricey.  A paver patio for example, or an elaborate gazebo.  In the case of a paver patio there are definitely some materials choices that can be made, some very creative, but there's just nothing like the look and durability of a properly build paver patio.  And that costs.


budget materials used in a couple ways in our garden

​But in most cases, there are often many budget friendly material options to achieving your garden addition.  And, I'll just be really honest here, a lot of times it ends up looking (and lasting) like a thrown together project.   

Even with cheaper materials it's really important to consider the longevity of the material as well as the way you build it to make it worth your while.  Because, in the end you're time will be worth way more than the materials and you want to spend your time in a meaningful way so that you can enjoy your beautiful project for a good long while.

So, in the spirit of sharing some artful uses of unusual garden materials, I decided to put together this blog post to focus on a few that I think are worth considering.  I've got 6 Budget Material ideas for you - let's get to it.

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Prescott Garden keeping - July Edition

7/3/2025

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🌿 July in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch
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​As July rolls in, Prescott settles into the heart of summer — a season defined by tending, timing, and watchfulness. With monsoons often arriving early, this month is less about big projects and more about daily presence: adjusting irrigation, watching for pests, and harvesting what your garden has to offer.

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Yep - those blooms are *actually* that crazy intense color. No editing!

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11 Picnic spots for 'eat outside day' in prescott, az

6/18/2025

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This week we are thinking about and celebrating local places, local-ness, the beautiful scenery we are lucky to have, and picnics.  Let me explain!

Today is International Picnic Day, not that we need a special holiday to make a picnic worthy of celebrating.

And since we want to share more time with the special people in our lives, I think we should all spend the day outside  with our family and friends enjoying a picnic.  There's nothing that sounds bad about that, right?  Consider that aside from some well-earned downtime, there are health and general wellness benefits too!!  

  • It's a great way to slow down, leave that cell-phone and laptop behind... take a mental break
  • Get a boost of natural vitamin-D, something many of us need more of
  • Stretch out, breathe the fresh air, have no-where to go
  • Food always tastes better when enjoyed outdoors (right?)
  • Elevate all your senses by observing your surroundings
  • And if you choose to hike it in, you'll work up that appetite plus get a good workout
  • Most of all spend some quality, undistracted time with your fellow picnic-ers

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👉🏼 Keep reading to see my list of local Prescott picnic-worthy spots. 🧺

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Prescott garden keeping - june edition

6/1/2025

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🌿 June in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

As the high desert moves into early summer, June in Prescott brings high temperatures, intense sun, and the beginnings of the monsoon season. It's a month focused on fine-tuning water habits and staying alert to pest activity — especially for new seedlings and recent additions to the garden.

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What Is Organic Modernism?

5/21/2025

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A Natural Approach to Home & Garden Design
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Image: Peterssen-Keller Architecture
At The Whiskey Porch, we specialize in creating beautiful, functional spaces that connect your home to the land around it.

One design philosophy that’s especially "buzzy" right now is called Organic Modernism—a style that blends modern simplicity with natural materials and seamless indoor-outdoor living.

More than just a trend, this approach can expand your usable living space and enhance your lifestyle—while also increasing the value of your home.

In fact, recent Zillow research shows that homes with outdoor kitchens and nature-inspired features can sell for up to 3.1% more.

We just published a deep dive on this topic over on our Substack "Letters from The Whiskey Porch":
👉 Read the full article on Substack

In it, we cover:
  • What Organic Modernism really means
  • How to bring this style into your home
  • Why it matters for homeowners in Arizona and beyond
  • ​How we blend Nordic lifestyle principles into our own version of this design style—light-filled, natural, and deeply connected to place

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​If you’re ready to design a space that’s rooted in beauty, nature, and simplicity, we’d love to help.


With Peace & Contentment,
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Prescott Garden Keeping - May Edition

5/1/2025

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🌿 May in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

May brings a shift into full garden mode here in Prescott. With the final frost typically behind us, this is the time to start planting warm-season crops, prep irrigation, and set yourself up for the dry summer ahead. It's a month of steady progress and deepening color in the high desert.

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Prescott Garden keeping - April edition

4/1/2025

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🌿 April in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

​April in Prescott can feel like spring on steroids—or a flashback to winter. With tulips blooming one day and frost looming the next, this month is all about balance: nurturing emerging growth while honoring our persistent winter chill.
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10 Simple & Inspiring Ways to Celebrate the Spring Equinox

3/19/2025

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Happy Spring!  Tomorrow is the Spring Equinox,  also known as the Vernal Equinox.  That beautiful time of year when day and night are nearly equal, gently shifting us toward brighter, warmer days.

Historically, cultures worldwide have celebrated this moment as a period of renewal, growth, and reconnection to the earth. Here in the Southwest, indigenous communities traditionally mark this season with ceremonies honoring the land's fertility and the rejuvenation of life.

For me, the Spring Equinox symbolizes fresh starts and the quiet joy of observing nature awakening around us. It’s the ideal moment to pause, reflect, and thoughtfully welcome the new season into our homes and gardens.

Here are TEN beautifully simple ideas for celebrating the arrival of spring here in Prescott.  

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