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Landscaping for Curb Appeal: Essential #1 Trees

2/4/2016

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Trees truly are the most important element in almost any residential landscape, but here in the hot Valley of the Sun, they are critical! In addition to increasing your property and adjacent property values, they increase the overall desirability of your neighborhood. Some of the most attractive communities in the Valley are the older ones with dense stands of large shade trees that have had the luxury of soaking up years and years of flood irrigation. As we have grown more sensitive to saving water in the desert, many of the newer neighborhoods have incorporated shading programs through design of desert-adapted tree-lined streets. Another keystone quality to an attractive community!

Trees serve many advantageous functions, which we benefit from as individual home-owners and as communities. From an environmental perspective, they have the ability to reduce infiltration of storm-water runoff into our natural waterways and carbon dioxide emissions into our climate. Through the lens of the human dimension, they provide an affordable level of comfort that cannot be achieved in any other way! Trees give us shade for outdoor living, and cool our homes in the summer-time, in turn saving energy and money which would otherwise be spent running our air conditioners harder.

If you're a Phoenix-Tucson resident looking to stick to a water-saving, desert type plant palette, look primarily at Palo Verde and Mesquite varieties, as well as Iron Wood, Desert Willow, Lysiloma, and Texas Ebony. If you like a more "transitional" landscape here's our tree recommendations for you: Evergreen Elm, Live Oak, Red Push Pistache, Vitex (Or Chaste Tree), Texas Mountain Laurel, and Fan-Tex Ash.

For our friends up in the north country, such as Flagstaff, look to following trees to help spruce-up your curb appeal: White Fir, Arizona Ash, Green Ash, Rocky Mountain Juniper, Colorado Blue Spruce, Ponderosa Pine, Austrian Pine, Gambel Oak, Black Locust, Autumn Blaze, and Amur Maples.


Check out the Sonoran Shadows Plant Library for more information on these great selections!
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