Planting Facts

Drought-proof Phoenix xeriscape front yard with agaves, barrel cacti and desert shrubs in granite

Low-Water Landscaping: Building a Truly Drought...

A drought-proof Phoenix yard comes down to plant choice — about 80% of the battle. Build from desert natives, cacti and succulents, and tough arid-climate plants; hydrozone them on drip...

Low-Water Landscaping: Building a Truly Drought...

A drought-proof Phoenix yard comes down to plant choice — about 80% of the battle. Build from desert natives, cacti and succulents, and tough arid-climate plants; hydrozone them on drip...

Mediterranean-style Phoenix landscape with fruitless olive trees, gravel, terracotta and a cypress

Fruitless Olive & Mediterranean Trees for the A...

Mediterranean trees thrive here because the Sonoran Desert shares their hot, dry summers and mild winters. Fruitless olives like 'Swan Hill' and 'Wilsonii' give you the silvery, gnarled look with...

Fruitless Olive & Mediterranean Trees for the A...

Mediterranean trees thrive here because the Sonoran Desert shares their hot, dry summers and mild winters. Fruitless olives like 'Swan Hill' and 'Wilsonii' give you the silvery, gnarled look with...

Sculptural prickly pear with magenta fruit and cholla cactus in a Phoenix desert garden

Prickly Pear & Cholla: Designing with Sculptura...

Prickly pear (Opuntia) and cholla (Cylindropuntia) are the two most sculptural cacti for a Phoenix yard — spring flowers, edible tunas, and forms from low clumps to specimens 6 feet...

Prickly Pear & Cholla: Designing with Sculptura...

Prickly pear (Opuntia) and cholla (Cylindropuntia) are the two most sculptural cacti for a Phoenix yard — spring flowers, edible tunas, and forms from low clumps to specimens 6 feet...

Flowering desert trees in bloom in a Phoenix yard, palo verde, desert willow and jacaranda

Best Flowering Trees for Phoenix: Desert Color ...

The best flowering trees for Phoenix are blue palo verde, desert willow, and chitalpa, with cascalote for fall and winter color, Texas mountain laurel in spring, and ironwood in early...

Best Flowering Trees for Phoenix: Desert Color ...

The best flowering trees for Phoenix are blue palo verde, desert willow, and chitalpa, with cascalote for fall and winter color, Texas mountain laurel in spring, and ironwood in early...

Sculptural ocotillo, yucca and desert spoon accents in a Phoenix xeriscape with boulders

Yucca, Ocotillo & Desert Spoon: Sculptural Dese...

Yucca, ocotillo, and desert spoon are the three sculptural accents that give a desert bed its structure. Yucca throws a starburst of stiff sword leaves; ocotillo sends up whip-like canes...

Yucca, Ocotillo & Desert Spoon: Sculptural Dese...

Yucca, ocotillo, and desert spoon are the three sculptural accents that give a desert bed its structure. Yucca throws a starburst of stiff sword leaves; ocotillo sends up whip-like canes...

Tall manicured Ficus nitida columns forming a dense green privacy hedge along a Phoenix backyard wall

Ficus for Phoenix Privacy: Columns, Hedges & Sc...

Ficus nitida gives Phoenix yards the densest, most formal privacy wall available, and columns come pre-grown at 6, 8, or more feet, so the screening is near-instant. Space columns 2...

Ficus for Phoenix Privacy: Columns, Hedges & Sc...

Ficus nitida gives Phoenix yards the densest, most formal privacy wall available, and columns come pre-grown at 6, 8, or more feet, so the screening is near-instant. Space columns 2...