Century Agave

Full sun. Evergreen; strongly formed, with heavy, toothed, spine-tipped leaves. Although it may not live for 100 years, each rosette spends many seasons storing energy and, for its final act […]

Retama

Full sun; deciduous and fast-growing, with abundant thorns, ribbon-like leaves and yellow paloverde flowers in spring (and occasionally throughout the warm season.) \n\nRetama has the ability to shed its leaves […]

Honey Mesquite

Full sun only. Deciduous, with a rambling, slow-growing form. Recognize it by the long compound leaflets, stout thorns, and wide-spreading, drooping branches. Mesquite flowers periodically during warm weather, and fruits […]

Mexican Plum

Sun or shade. Deciduous, with striated bark resembling a cherry tree. Fragrant white/pink flowers are one of the earliest signs of spring. The fruits ripen in autumn; they’re small and […]

Ebony

Sun. Nearly evergreen (except for a brief leaf drop in spring) with tiny leaflets on dark, spiny bark. Grown as a single- or multi-trunked tree, ebony has a rounded crown […]