The flowers eventually create bean-like seed pods which stay on the tree through the winter. There are horticultural varieties available which do not produce the seed pods. The desert willow is ...

the desert willow is actually in the trumpet-creeper family, Bignoniaceae, with catalpa trees, esperanza (Tacoma stans) and trumpet vine (Campsis radicans). The straight species of desert willow ...

Four things are ready to harvest right now, like the desert willow tree. It has a nice, sweet flower. “You suck on this end and you can taste what the hummingbirds taste a little bit of nectar ...

the narrow leaf desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, native to the U.S. Southwest, and the broad-leaf common catalpa, Catalpa bignoniodes, from the U.S. Southeast, so that he would end up with the ...

and mesquite species. Desert willow’s trumpet flowers, which are mildly fragrant, attract hummingbirds and the tree serves as a nesting site for a variety of songbirds. Flower color is white ...

Among those trees that begin to leaf out in early spring and bloom mid-spring in into sum­mer and fall is another drought-tolerant native California species, Desert Willow (Chilopsis lin­earis).

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 ...

The desert willow in front of our house has always ... weather (the appropriate amount of cold depends on the species or variety of tree), their buds lose dormancy and hardiness and prepare ...