Palo verde tree landscape

Selecting a tree for your low desert garden? Join me as I go through a list of trees, discussing their positives & negative attributes.

What's yellow, green and beautiful during Tucson springs?

Palo Verde. Considered an Iconic tree in the desert landscape, learn how to grow one in your desert garden.

I receive more comments and questions about our palo verde trees than any other plant in our garden. I don’t know if it’s because homeowners...

Palo verde tree, fescue

Desert Museum Palo Verdes are a real marvel of science. With a succession that includes the Blue Palo Verde (Cercidium Floridum), the Foothills (Cercidium microphyllum), the Mexican (Parkinsonia aculeate), and the Sonoran/Palo Brea (Parkinsonia praecox). The DMPV takes great qualities from each of these which makes it faster growing, totally thornless, smooth trunked, have enhanced flowering, more cold resistant, basically a super tree ! This sometimes doesn't seem fair to other Palo Verdes…

The native blue palo verde (Parkinsonia florida) is a drought- and heat-tolerant tree that works well in waterwise gardens. If you’re wondering how to transfer your palo verde tree from a pot to the landscape, the steps are relatively simple, and even novice gardeners will have success.

Beautiful green bark of the Palo Verde Tree

These are fantastic native trees. They should be more popular than mesquites because they are much better trees and much prettier. Their warm season flushes of yellow blooms are breathtaking, and t…