Are you looking for a fast-growing, drought tolerant, ornamental, native Texas tree to use in your landscape instead of the exotic and over-used crepe myrtle? Or maybe instead of the foreign vitex?

Someone needs to tell the Urban Forests Ecosystems Institute that their tree location map is missing the desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) that was planted at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden ...

Desert willow with a leaning trunk in the courtyard of the Texas Zoo in Riverside Park. The hard freeze of February 2021 killed the Texas Ebony tree (Ebenopsis ebano) in the xeriscape area of the ...

Trees are an integral part of your garden planning. They are essentially the pillars of your outdoors. There are many reasons to site trees in your garden areas. In my opinion the most important ...

Q: I am sending two photos of my desert willow tree, now in its fourth spring. The buds form, grow and then dry out before opening. Have taken samples to Mesquite Valley Growers. They see no evidence ...

New woody ornamentals don’t come along as often as annual bedding plants. So when El Niño desert orchid hit the market, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg was excited to see the flowering shrub’s ...