Gardening in desert conditions can be challenging, but it's also incredibly rewarding! The key to success lies in selecting plants that are well-adapted to hot, arid climates and low water ...

The desert willow can be pruned during its first few years to encourage either a single trunk or multiple trunks, or it can be left to grow freely. Juvenile trunks are smooth-barked, but the wood ...

The desert willow has white, purple and pink flowers that bloom all summer long. They have unusual growth structures with twisted limbs, and tiny leaves that birds and desert tortoises like to ...

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 Gar… ...

Desert willow’s trumpet flowers, which are mildly fragrant, attract hummingbirds and the tree serves as a nesting site for a variety of songbirds.

El Niño is a hybrid of an unusual pair of native plants: catalpa, a tree we are familiar with here in Louisiana, and desert willow, a plant that’s common in Western states. Why is this significant?