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 ...

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 ...

Q: My neighbor has a tree in her backyard that she calls a desert willow. It is easily 18 feet tall and nearly that wide. The flowers it has are a lovely dark rose color with white throats. I thought ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nurtured by Nature, The Mysterious Crested Saguaro, Restoring the Flora, Desert Willow. This week on a special desert plants episode of Arizona Illustrated…how a “nature nerd” turned his passion into ...

Q: I have a 20-year-old desert willow that isn’t thriving. Every year there are more and more dead branches. Please tell me where to water and how often. Use a soaker hose or drip system? Lay it at ...