Speaker: Master Gardener Debora Moritz
Debora grew up on a farm in Wisconsin where growing things was a way of life. Her father was a soil/water chemist and her mother a zoologist. The art and science of plants has alway been a great interest. During college she was a voluntee at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens: 16 acres with a plant collections representing 80 plant families with 475 species. A move to Arizona opened up a whole new range of desert plants to explore. She is a graduate of the Desert Botanical Gardens Desert Landscape School and a Maricopa County Master Gardener. She is a regular speaker at the Home Shows on the topics of citrus in the low desert, agaves, succulents and fruit trees. She is particularly fond of the huge varieties of adaptations succulents like the Adenium have made for survival in arid climates. She loves talking to and about plants!
