Some Palm Desert golfing residents are frustrated with their city’s decision to continue raising resident rates at the Desert Willow facility while refusing to offer summer discounts to the residents.

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 ...

Local golfers in Palm Desert are grumbling at the prospect of resident pricing changes proposed for Desert Willow Golf Resort. But local officials say it’s not necessarily a bad change. Palm Desert ...

Why do golfers have fun playing the game? Is it just the fact of being on a golf course? Is it the condition of the course? Is it the amenities of the course? Is it the attention to detail shown on ...

The hard freeze of February 2021 killed the Texas Ebony tree (Ebenopsis ebano) in the xeriscape area of the Victoria Educational Gardens. While I waited to have the dead tree removed, I began ...

Q. We have a small desert willow whose main trunk broke at about the 2-foot mark and now it is sending out horizontal branches (four or five) that are about 5 feet long and sprawling. Branches are an ...

Question: I have a desert willow. It is always, whether I water it or leave it alone, yellow/ brown leaves, dark spots on the leaves, losing leaves. now it looks sad and not very healthy. Can you ...

I think desert willow is a great little tree. Despite what the native plant critics say, this tree will live easily 50 to 75 years, probably a lot longer under an organic program. Put the sod down on ...

Q: My neighbor has a tree in her backyard that she calls a desert willow. It is easily 18 feet tall and nearly that wide. The flowers it has are a lovely dark rose color with white throats. I thought ...

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 ...

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 Garden ...