 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Las Cruces Gardener Terry Peterson shows county agent John White his zero escape. Most of the plants that you see here are native plants that grow locally in the Las Cruces area. If you drive around you can see these guys on the side of the road. You can see them along the desert. And most of them are very nice plants. Once you get them established they don't take a lot of water and they don't take a lot of care. The bugs will get after them because the bugs have been here as long as the plants have been here. But the plants have learned how to exist with the bugs so they'll survive without a lot of pesticides or a lot of worry. Well you have a nice mix of plant material. Let's talk about some of the plants here. You have a beautiful ornamental grass there. That is a real nice local grass. It's called Cytotes Grandma. That particular clump is about three years old. Eventually it will get a ring in the center of it that will be dead. And it will make a nice ring or about that time you can just take and dig it up and divide it and make a lot of other clumps. And then we have the nice kind of beginning to bloom over there in the background. That's a rabbit brush. It's really a good plant. In that little clump there's three varieties and each one blooms at a different time. Terry tell us a little bit about this bed. I can see we have a kind of a change from what we looked at prior. This is a raised cactus bed. The idea was to get the small cactus up where a person could look at them and enjoy them without having to get over so you could see some of the smaller ones. Terry this is a nice kind of clean looking area here. Got a lot of different cacti in here. This is designed to do something different with rocks and gravel. I see you have some pots with cacti in them. Is there a reason for that? Those cacti aren't hardy here. They'll freeze and die if I don't take them inside when it gets cold. Okay so just kind of temporary housing. Right and they look nice. They want to be outside. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.