The best you can do is go to the AZ Entension Service. Each state has one and they are tax-supported to help small gardeners to huge farms. Here is a link that might be useful: Arizona

My favorite Canadian gardening book is Seasons of my Garden by Marjorie Harris. I also like Thomas Hobb's books (Shocking Beauty and Jewel Box) for their fabulous pictures. But I also love some non-Canadian books such as anything by Ken Druse and Time Tested Plants by Pamela Harper. I do enjoy Front Yard Gardens, but I guess I enjoy even more the in-depth personal accounts of individual gardeners, the plants they love, their stories of passionately devoting themselves to a single garden over many years and pictures which show the evolution of their own gardens.

Great question! Delphinium grandiflorum - this is the low growing delph. Much easier to grow, same fantastic blue color. Salvia - I grow lots of different sages, both hardy and tender in this zone. Fantastic, easy care, every color of the rainbow. Alcea Rosea (Hollyhock) - yes, they get rust, Japanese beetles love them and they seed, but nothing says cottage garden like a hollyhock. Columbine - a personal favorite for its grace. Nepeta (catmint) - so easy to grow. blooms almost all summer. Echinacea - I grow Magnus, the old standby. Start with one, in three years you'll have ten, in five years enough for all your friends. Siberian Iris - so unfussy. Beautiful plant with no disease or pest problems. Lychnis coronia (rose campion) - I love the silver foliage and the hot magenta flowers. Makes a bold statement in the garden. Achillea (yarrow) - Love the flower clusters combined with something spikey. Plumbago - not hardy in my zone but I love the sky blue flower clusters. Snapdragons - only the tall kind (rocket). Yes, it's an annual but no cottage garden should be without it.

Pretty plants there, Michelle. The gold one with Dream Queen could be August Moon. I say gold, then there is this description of August Moon, " large, round, lime-gold foliage on this plant is nicely textured. A classic! Soft lavender flowers." When it blooms are the flowers showing lavender? Anyway, it easily could be. A highly popular hosta for many years. I don't have Fire And Ice, but I can see how you would really enjoy growing something that beautiful. My white leaves look awful. About the Empress Wu. My plant is in its second year and it looks different from yours. I'm not sure you have an EWu. If it is a variegated leaf, it is something else besides Wu. Mine has sort of fat heart shaped leaves and is fairly blue green.