Are you looking for a fast-growing, drought tolerant, ornamental, native Texas tree to use in your landscape instead of the exotic and over-used crepe myrtle? Or maybe instead of the foreign vitex?

The hard freeze of February 2021 killed the Texas Ebony tree (Ebenopsis ebano) in the xeriscape area of the Victoria Educational Gardens. While I waited to have the dead tree removed, I began ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

A late summer thunderstorm drenched the desert in August. In this year of epic drought, rain was more than welcomed by plants in the wild and in our gardens. This is not a common thing here in the ...

Several years ago, ladies from the Desert Pointe Garden Club in Ahwatukee Foothills helped celebrate Arbor Day by planting trees at my sons’ elementary school garden. Prepare soil for desert-adapted ...

Q: My homeowners association requires a replacement for a dying plum tree with something similar. I want to plant a more drought-tolerant, low-maintenance small tree. Any suggestions? A: I am guessing ...

CARSON CITY -- Want to buy some trees and plants real cheap? How about a 15-gallon acacia or desert willow tree for $15. Or perennials for $2 and shrubs for $5? Those and more desert greenery will be ...

What a difference a little spring rain makes! While desert willow blooms in June are familiar sights across the arid Southwest, even in drought years, the atypical and most welcome rains we enjoyed ...

If you listen to Jerry Parson’s and my radio show Gardening South Texas, you know we have been emphasizing that this is a good time to plant shade trees. (The show airs on KLUP (AM 930) from noon to 2 ...

Someone needs to tell the Urban Forests Ecosystems Institute that their tree location map is missing the desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) that was planted at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden ...