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Comments (8)Pistacia chinensis is said to grow well in Tuscon. You could probably confirm that but I don't doubt it , having one myslef. It makes quite a nice shade tree, and it is the easiest tree you can imagine. It grows three foot a year or more with some irrigation, and has super strong wood. In it's second year, ours survived easily the great drought and heat spell of 2012, in which ten percent of all trees in Texas died. It needs pruning it's first few years due to codominant limbs. It's an ugly duckling that grows up to be a stunner. If you plant the male, there is no chance of it reseeding. It is a true earth friendly tree, needs little input from man, highly disease resistant, and puts on a show in the fall. It's deep rooted, wind resistant, and will survive on twelve inches of rain a year....See Moreflooring in desert Southwest
Comments (19)Cheryl, what's going on with your floors? What did you decide? We are in Tucson for the winter and spring. This week we put in laminate floors in 3 bedrooms. Looks and feels great. I did something brave. I ordered relatively expensive white laminate floor for the master bedroom. Looks like narrowish very whitewashed wood. Pergo brand, I think. We installed Costco Harmonics brand laminate in bedrooms and it looks great. I was talking to a Lowes installer who loves harmonics brand and has done many of them. He is also some kind of troubleshooter. Fancy credentialed guy. My ankles hurt last night so I am thinking of laminate for the kitchen. Ceramic hurts. Do polished concrete? As mentioned, my realtor (an experienced, smart and wise lady) looooves polished concrete. I think that hw in the southwest has an unwarranted bad rap and peeps just repeat the same unfounded stories. Just an inkle in my inkled mind. Take good care, Cheryl....See MoreCost of pool winter pool heating in southwest desert
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Comments (5)Here is an article posted in 2006 from a guy in Tucson AZ. "I have lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for several years in the late 1980's and again in the early 1990's. I was not yet growing bamboo, so I can't directly relate to growing bamboo there. But I am currently living in Tucson, Arizona, and have been for about 10 years now. I do know that the Las Cruces climate can be unpredicable, once, my vegetable garden persisted well past Christmas, we were picking many pounds of ripe tomatoes then, and a killing frost didn't knock them down until late January or early February. Here in Tucson, Arizona I have a fairly large grove of Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon' and it does well where it gets shade in the morning and afternoon, but our sun and low humidity has a tendency to burn it brown/tan where it gets a few hours of direct, late afternoon sunshine. I plan to install a shade-cloth barrier to hide the lower parts of the burnt culms. Phyllostachys vivax and the 'Aureocaulis' form both do the best of the 15 or so runner species I am currently growing. Sure the wind will damage the new culms before they start to toughen up, but my grove was started with 2 - #1 size potted plants and 3 years later it had grown into a ten foot wide, 30 foot long visual barrier, about 20 feet tall. Only this spring (year five) did the wind arrive at a time when the new culms couldn't handle it, otherwise it would presently be a great deal taller than it is. Semiarundinaria fastuosa 'Viridis' was also started from a #1 size plant, its culms are like vertical, elongated, green pom-pom's. It is partially beneath a large mesquite tree so it does get some shade. The culms all have many short branches, it has reached a height of about 12 feet, the culms are close enough together to form a dense opaque barrier. Phyllostachys mannii 'Decora' has been spreading rapidly and produced many small culms. This is its 4th year and it isn't even 6 feet tall yet. Good shrubby ground cover, yuck. Phyllostachys aurea also began as a small plant, and is now in its 2nd summer, has spread out and already began to put up 10 foot culms, it is planted next to the Phyllostachys mannii 'Decora'. Semiarundinaria yashadaka 'Kimmei' has quickly grown and spread out to form a solid wall of green about 8 feet tall. Both forms of Arundinaria gigantea grow well in the cooler part of the year and during rainy spells, but despite irrigation and soil amendment they tend to burn away in the full summer sun. They may be good for areas with shade, but I haven't had a chance to try that yet. My Phyllostachys rubromarginata is in its first full season, it has already formed a 3 foot high bush of a grove, about 3 foot in diameter from a #1 pot. I have high hopes that next spring it will do well and put up some taller culms. The leaves roll in the heat of the day no matter how well watered it is." _________________ Joseph Clemens Tucson, Arizona, USA...See Morewalkin_yesindeed
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