If erosion is an issue in your yard, growing the right plants can help you keep your soil in place. This beautiful flowering ...

Flower clusters occur on branch tips and peak ... As a landscape planting, desert willow is an excellent choice. It’s easy to establish and fast-growing, achieving tree size in several years ...

� Held in racemes or terminal panicles, the flowers come in colors that range from purple to white, with lavender or light pink seemingly the most common.� The Desert Willow cultivars ...

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 ...

Desert Willow (Chilopsis lin­earis). It grows to 15 to 30 feet tall and about 10 to 20 feet wide. It offers trumpet-shaped orchid­like flowers that can be white, pink, lavender, or burgundy ...

With exotic flowers resembling orchids, the desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) looks too fragile for its harsh desert origins. Its ruffled blossoms smell of violets, bloom from spring through hard ...

Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis ... A Texas Master Gardener, she's the author of The Texas Flower Garden, published by Gibbs-Smith in 1996. She's been a frequent speaker at various garden ...

Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis): This fast grower is native, and can take our full sun and even reflected heat. The leaves are a lush green, and it has gorgeous orchid-like flowers in a ...

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, pink, lavender ...

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 ...