This website highlights the plants in and around Academy Village, a retirement community in the Rincon Valley southeast of Tucson. The goal is to help you identify the plants you see, to encourage you to use native plants in your garden, and to provide information on growing those plants.
If you would like to alert us to a plant that is flowering or ask a question, please use Contact Us (in menu at top of this page).
This website was created and is maintained by Mary Welch-Keesey, an Academy Village resident with a Masters in Horticulture from Purdue University and an intense interest in native plants and the Sonoran Desert. Text and photos by Mary Welch-Keesey unless otherwise indicated, all rights reserved.