No! Your average last frost date (50% chance of 32 degrees) is Mar 1. Even pushing the envelope to use the average last FREEZE (50% chance of 28 degrees) you're still looking at January 31. But don't feel bad, you're lucky both those dates are relatively soon, I have to wait until May. You could start them inside now, and plant out in February with some protection...

I would hold off on the banana.....tender perennial there. I just planted a Desert Willow and it was an iffy decision. If we have a hard winter with low temps I may lose it. Depends on the tree really, tropicals like banana I would wait until spring. Doc, I don't know where the university area is in Tucson but there are two nurseries there that I like. Mesquite Valley Growers - Speedway and Pantano and Desert Survivors on Starr Pass near I-10. Desert Survivors is run by disabled vets who start lots of native trees, bushes, plants. Mesquite Valley is very upscale. If you want cactus plants you cannot miss with Bach's Cactus Nursery, Thornydale north of Cortaro Farms. HTH.

Just a question, when is it a good time to plant ice plant ? I've actually cut pieces before and just stuck them in soil nd it seems sometimes it works and not other times was just wondering? Thanks, Greg

Without seeing the plants, it's hard to say how well they will do :-) Planting them in the ground is going to at least give them a fighting chance if still alive, so that'd be my choice.