Popular Trees & Palms
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Trees
Mastic/ Pistacia Lentiscus
- Full sun
- Moderate/ Low water
- Litter free
- Great for shade
- Very slow growing
Chilean Mesquite/Prosopis chilensis
- Full sun
- Moderate water
- No thorns
- Blooms yellow
- Great for privacy/shade
- Fast growing
Native Mesquite
- Full sun
- Moderate water
- Drought tolerant
- Great canopy
- Hardy
- Has thorns
- Blooms yellow
Sweet acacia / Acacia Smallii
- Full sun
- Moderate/low water
- Drought tolerant
- Blooms aromatic yellow flowers in spring
Willow Acacia / Acacia Salicina
- Full sun
- Moderate/low water
- Silver blue leaves
- Blooms yellow in spring
Texas Ebony / Pithecellobium Flexicaule
- Full sun
- Moderate/low water
- Drought tolerant
- Great for shade
- Evergreen
- Blooms cream flower spring-fall
Blue Palo Verde (Cercidium floridum)
- Full sun
- Moderate water
- Drought & cold tolerant
- Fast growing
- Yellow blooms in spring
Desert Museum Palo Verde/Cercidium-parkinsonia hybrid
- Full sun
- Moderate water
- Thornless
- Faster growing than Blue Palo Verde
- Low litter
- Blooms yellow in spring
Jacaranda
- Full sun
- Moderate Water
- Drought tolerant
- Feathery leaf
- Gorgeous purple blooms
- Provides filtered shade
- Fast growing
Texas Mountain Laurel/ Sophora Secundiflora
- Full sun
- Moderate water
- Evergreen
- Blooms purple in spring
- Slow growing
- Low maintenance
Cascalote /Caesalpinia cacalaco
- Full sun
- Moderate water
- Evergreen
- Blooms yellow fall-winter
- Low maintenance
Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
- Full sun
- Great for shade
- Fast growing
- Semi-evergreen
Citrus Trees
- Part sun/ part shade
- Moderate water
- Variety of options; Meyers Lemon, Lisbon Lemon, Kumquat, Bears Lime, Tangerine, Navel Orange, etc.
Palms
Pygmy Date Palm/ Phoenix Roebelenii
- Morning sun/ afternoon shade
- Moderate/low water
- Fast growing
- Great in pots
Mediterranean Fan Palm / Chamaerops Humilis
- Full sun
- Moderate/low water
- Cold hardy
- Great in pots
Sago palm/ Cycas Revoluta
- Morning sun/ afternoon shade
- Moderate/low water
- Slow growing
- Cold hardy
Pineapple Palm/ Phoenix Canariensis
- Full sun
- Moderate/low water
- Very hardy