We recently had an open house party here at our new home. We had a couple of neighbors, along with our family. Auntie G. says ...

A favorite feature of the site is a map that indicates reported locations of each tree species. In Butte County, they map four Chico occurrences of the desert willow: Entler Avenue; East 8 th ...

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 ...

Most desert willow trees in commerce are seedlings grown from ... that bear flowers of unpredictable colors, all "Bubba" varieties have a reliable foliage and blossom display.

The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees. Rooted in the ...

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 ...

There is in fact a “willow witch’s broom mite” (Stenacis triradiatus) but it’s hard to tell if this species afflicts our desert trees. I am still observing desert willows to see if the ...

species like the “Bubba” desert willow are replacing redwoods, said Jessica Sanders, the executive director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation. “It’s sad because it’s an iconic tree ...

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 ...