Here are 9 trees that you can plant in your Arizona Landscaping projects to provide shade and flowers to help make your backyard landscape your Dream Retreat.
- Sweet Acacia:
20 x 20 feet at maturity. This tree likes full sun and has thorny, sweet-scented flowers that lends to a nice winter color. Beneficial to native wildlife of Arizona.
- Feather Tree:
15×15 feet at maturity. This tree likes full/partial sun. No thorns (yeah)! Sensitive to the cold. Beneficial to native wildlife. It will have small white puffball flowers from May to June.
- Cascalote:
15 x15 feet at maturity. Full sun tree. Young trees are very thorny, ouch. But the stunning yellow winter flowers followed by colorful red seedpods make it worth it.
- Mastic tree:
15 x 20 feet at maturity. Another Full Sun tree. Good thing we live in Arizona! No thorns. Evergreen tree with stiff, dark green leaves turn red in the fall.
- Chitalpa:
20 – 30′ tall and wide at maturity. Leaves are 1/2″ wide and 5-6″ long. Full sun. No thorns. Has clusters of pink or white flowers during warm months. No seeds. Deciduous in the winter months.
- Texas Ebony:
20 x 15 feet at maturity Full sun but will accepts some shade. Dark green leaf color all year long. Thorny tree, but beneficial to native wildlife. Bring on the birds.
- Sonoran Emerald Hybrid Palo Verde:
30 x 30 at maturity. Fast growing tree that likes full sun. No thorns. Dense canopy with dark green, lush foliage for shade. Bright yellow flowers in spring, with few seed pods.
- Vitex:
20 x 20 at maturity. Full sun. Dark green leaves spring to fall (deciduous in winter). No thorns. Spikes of purple (or white, pink) flowers all summer that will attract butterflies.
- Evergreen Elm:
30 x 30 at maturity. Fast growing , full sun semi-evergreen tree with attractive bark.
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