Dig It Urban Gardens Nursery - I Dig It!

The remains of a member of the Blue-Man
group who refused to eat organic veggies.

  I am really digging it at Dig It Urban Gardens Nursery!  This is a nursery in a class by itself.  I was agog the minute I left my vehicle.  The entire north side of the nursery is a beautiful lush edible landscape, on the OUTSIDE of the fence.  The nursery storefront has a gorgeous street-art style mural painted on it.  My photos don't really do it justice.

Once inside the Dig It store I found myself looking all around and just repeating "WOW!".  One area had awesome vivariums and terrariums loaded with plants.  As I stared into one of the vivariums I suddenly saw two bulging eyes staring right back at me - a tiny green and yellow frog!

Another corner of the store had the biggest display of air-plants that I have ever seen!
  Dig It carries over 40 varieties of these crazy soil-less plants.

Another view of the uber cool Dig It storefront.

An amazing selection of organically grown plants starts!

Fabulous selection of pots!

Dig It has more butterflies than any garden center in the Valley.  Its no wonder why - they sell a huge variety of milkweed including one I've never heard of - Sodom Apple.  They also have on display butterfly cages that you can fill with milkweed plants and butterfly caterpillars, then wait to see the chrysalis form and the butterflies emerge! The large leafed plant in the butterfly cage below is the Sodom Apple Milkweed.

"Butterfly Cage" is actually a chameleon screened cage with
the bottom cut out, a great idea!

  Since opening in October 2015 Dig It has held a number of classes
including classes on herb gardening, composting, summer gardening
in the desert, butterfly gardening, creating a vivarium,
growing and caring for aloes, container gardening, and rose gardening,
To keep up on what is happening next at Dig It, stay tuned to their FB Page.

You can even shop in their greenhouse, but be careful not to disturb the young plants starts and seed start trays - not everything is for sale yet.  Ask before you grab :-)

More beautiful street art, featuring our endangered honey-bees!

Dig It's generous edible landscaping, lining the street outside their garden center.

If you haven't been to Dig It Urban Gardens Nursery you are missing out on a real treat.  I could spend hours here, there is so much to see.  Dig It is truly a community-based nursery, filling the void created when Baker's Nursery closed.  Be sure to shop local this holiday season, and head out to Dig It, at 3015 N 16th St. Phoenix Az  (602) 812-7476

To see more about Dig It and its owners Tim Bishop and Ryan Jerrell
(self-described plant nerds)
watch this great interview by McKenzie Steuber-