Common name:Palo Verde Desert Museum
Botanical name:Parkinsonia 'Desert Museum'
This semievergreen tree will grow quickly to 25' x 25'. It has a beautiful vase-shape and makes a makes a nice specimin tree. Bright yellow blooms appear from spring through summer. There is seasonal leaf and flower litter. Overwatering may cause imbs to break. Look for selections that offer a vareity of bark colors and textures and thornless selections.
Common name:Palo Verde Thornless Hybrid
Botanical name:Parkinsonia Hybrid 'AZT'
This is a thornless hybrid Palo Verde that grows quickly 30' x 40'. It has small blue green leaves and a smooth green trunk. This specimen tree can have an attractive vase shape or be pruned to a candelabra form. Profuse yellow funnel-shaped flowers appear in spring. Accepts full sun. Can we weaned off of supplmental irrigation when it reaches its mature size. - Arid Zone Trees
Common name:Purple Robe Locust
Botanical name:Robinia X ambigua 'Purple Robe'
Robinia X ambigua 'Purple Robe' is a deciduous tree that grows 25'-40' tall and 12'-25' wide with compound green leaves. It requires full sun, low watering (drought tolerant), and will live in poor soil. It has blue, pink, and purple flowers that bloom from April to June.
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Maintain a two to four inch layer of mulch on the soil surface to reduce weeds, infiltrate rain water, and reduce compaction.
Remember to check your irrigation systems once a month, especially your valves, sprinkler heads, and drip emitters.
If your controller is not a smart controller, it should be reprogrammed as the weather changes.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.