Callistemon citrinus, Lemon bottlebrush, Crimson bottlebrush, small- to medium-sized tree The lemon bottlebrush is a good choice for smaller areas since it grows to twelve feet with a six- to nine-foot spread. Its evergreen leaves are narrow, leathery, and produce a citrus aroma. Bright red fuzzy, fragrant blossoms arranged on
Citrus trees have been a commercial crop in Arizona for more than one hundred years, but are popular in the home garden, too. Our weather produces some of the best-tasting citrus. The warm spring and summers help the sugars in the fruit produce a sweet and tasty crop. Citrus in
*Euphorbia rigida, Gopher plant, perennial, succulent This mounding evergreen grows to about two feet tall with a three-foot spread, and has attractive, narrow, pointed, blue-green, sharp leaves. It produces rounded clusters of papery chartreuse yellow flower bracts that appear at the end of each branch in early spring. The blooms
Powdery mildew is a common disease that appears as a dusty or powdery white or gray fungus. It is one of the oldest plant diseases on record. The fungus covers the surface of leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, and other plant parts of affected ornamentals. It grows only on living plant tissue and does
Texas root rot is a soil-borne disease caused by the fungus Phymatotrichum. The disease occurs most commonly in June through September and affects more than two thousand species of ornamental and native plants. It is one of the most common causes of death to landscape plants in the Southwest. The
Mistletoe is a flowering evergreen that grows as a parasite on a number of landscape plants in the Southwest desert. It has thick, green leaves that are oval in shape, and it grows up to two or more feet in diameter, producing small, sticky, whitish berries from October to December.
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