re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’re pretty much a desert here as well. (XIX Century maps show the Sandhills as desert.)
Our average annual rainfall here is very low.
It was all knows as “The Great American Desert” until modern mechanical cultivation came along. And it is also a matter of distribution of rainfall. Even Arizona gets 10” or more of rain per year, distributed over the year, that could support lush grassland, but it all comes in the late-summer Monsoon season or in winter.