Organ Pipe Cactus – Stenocereus thurberi
Height: 8 – 20 feet Width: 10 – 12 feet Bloom color: Light Pink Flowering season: Summer USDA minimum zone: 9 Cold hardiness: 25° F
Oro Blanco Grapefruit – Citrus Grapefruit Oro Blanco (Standard)
Harvest time is November to January in Tucson. Height: 15 – 20 feet Width: 20 – 25 feet Bloom color: White Flowering season: Spring USDA minimum zone: 9 Cold hardiness: 26° F
Multi-Head Golden Barrel – Echinocactus grusonii (Multi-Head)
Height: 2 – 3 feet Width: 2 – 6 feet Bloom color: Yellow Flowering season: Summer USDA minimum zone: 6 Cold hardiness: 10° F
Murphy’s Agave – Agave murpheyi
Height: 2 – 3 feet Width: 2 – 3 feet Bloom color: Green to Yellow Flowering season: Spring (mature plants only) USDA minimum zone: 7 Cold hardiness: 10° F
Myoporum – Myoporum parvifolium
Myoporum is a long-used evergreen groundcover that is being rediscovered as a fantastic landscape plant for the xeric southwest. Its spreading, succulent stems are densely packed with small, light green leaves, and they quickly take root anywhere they touch the ground if moisture is available, forming a thick mat wherever they spread. Once established, Myoporum…
Nanho Blue Butterfly Bush – Buddleja davidii ‘Nanho Blue’
Height: 4 – 5 feet Width: 4 – 5 feet Bloom color: Lilac Purple Flowering season: Summer, Fall USDA minimum zone: 6 Cold hardiness: 0° F
Nashville Grass – Muhlenbergia rigida ‘Nashville’
Height: 1 – 2 feet Width: 1 – 2 feet Bloom color: Purple to Tan Flowering season: Late Summer, Fall USDA minimum zone: 6 Cold hardiness: -10° F
Natal Plum – Carissa macrocarpa
Height: 5 – 8 feet Width: 5 – 8 feet Bloom color: White Flowering season: Spring, Summer USDA minimum zone: 9 Cold hardiness: 20° F
Native Mesquite – Prosopis velutina
Although this tough native isn’t Arizona’s state tree, it definitely deserves honorable mention as one of the most prominent and useful trees of the Desert Southwest! Many years before this land was called Arizona, indigenous people and local wildlife used the Native Mesquite for shelter, food, medicine, dye and lumber. This hardy tree is deciduous…