Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

Many people are familiar with the well-known weeping willow, but there are lots of different willows. Willows are most commonly found growing in moist, sunlit meadows and are easily identified by ...

Are you looking for a fast-growing, drought tolerant, ornamental, native Texas tree to use in your landscape instead of the exotic and over-used crepe myrtle? Or maybe instead of the foreign vitex?

What a difference a little spring rain makes! While desert willow blooms in June are familiar sights across the arid Southwest, even in drought years, the atypical and most welcome rains we enjoyed ...

I was out with students taking pictures of tree buds as part of our citizen science Budburst project. Only two types of tree buds had opened up yet, both flowers, red maples and pussy willow. The red ...