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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Evergreen Elm:

    30 x 30 at maturity. Fast growing , full sun semi-evergreen tree with attractive bark.

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