Just as wildflowers are passing their colorful peak, another desert superstar — the palo verde tree — is coming into brilliant bloom. The tree’s abundant yellow flowers provide a sort of ...

Spring is over, but some palo verde trees are blooming into summer.

A near perfect candidate has transformed my horse stable though. It's a palo verde tree, which is both native and non-toxic to kids and pets and horses.

The Palo Verde tree with its drought tolerance, attractive bark, contrasting bloom color, and manageable size makes it a tree worth knowing. Palo Verde — Spanish for "green pole" or "green stick ...

The Palo Verde tree with its drought tolerance, attractive bark, contrasting bloom color, and manageable size makes it a tree worth knowing. Palo Verde — Spanish for “green pole” or “green ...

Summer in Phoenix brings out the fearsome-looking palo verde beetle, which emerges to mate. Here's what palo verde beetles eat and whether they bite.

The Palo Verde, long a popular tree in desert landscapes, has seen increased popularity in Southern California as water supplies have decreased.

Yet it was a palo verde hybrid called Desert Museum that Perry singled out as special. It is named for Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, where three decades ago the director of natural ...

The Blue Palo Verde may be Arizona’s state tree, but don’t let that stop you from transplanting this magnificent specimen into your south Orange County landscapes. The Southwest native will ...

This semi-deciduous Palo Verde can grow to 20-plus feet tall and wide in five years. The canopy is an open and airy network of supple tiny twigs and small branches, casting a filtered shade.

The Palo Verde tree, Parkinsonia aculeata, is an excellent example of a drought-adapted tree providing this kind of light shade.

I couldn’t agree more with writer Maureen Gilmer’s statement that the palo verde “is the near perfect tree for our desert gardens.” The desert palo verde, with its oddly beautiful green ...