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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trees are an integral part of your garden planning. They are essentially the pillars of your outdoors. There are many reasons to site trees in your garden areas. In my opinion the most important ...

New woody ornamentals don’t come along as often as annual bedding plants. So when El Niño desert orchid hit the market, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg was excited to see the flowering shrub’s ...

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 ...

The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees. Rooted in the beds of dry washes throughout Anza-Borrego’s lower valleys, both plants gather ...

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 ...

Pruning needs: Shape when young to assure a good form. Water needs: Very low water; once established, irrigate deeply once a month. Snapshot: Native to Baja and Southern California as well as Northern ...

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 ...