School Gardening Grant 
Garden Examples: Paleo Garden     other Gardens      Application for Grant

Description: When cycads and dinosaurs roamed Arizona, Paleo gardens abounded.  Planting a Paleo garden introduces students to various  concepts of paleobotany and living fossils.  With Arizona’s rich  Triassic history (e.g., Petrified Forest), this garden is a natural.

Layout: An existing shaded area would be ideal for this project. Considering  the unique qualities of living fossils, shade is essential.

Irrigation: Careful attention to irrigation is critical.  Positioned in an existing  shaded shrub bed or below a large tree would be an effective  measure to conserve water and provide the needed filtered shade for some of the plants suited for the Paleo garden.

 Link:  For more info on Paleobotany visit ASU's web site.