Master gardener Sally Scalera shares the dirt on which fragrant plants are native, important because they attract and support our native insects.

Acacia can be grown as a tree or shrub growing to 30-feet-tall and almost just as wide. A single or multiple-trunk tree structure can be achieved by early and regular pruning, cutting back low ...

Q: We have sweet acacia trees at the entrance of a property in Chandler that are having severe limb breakage and dieback lately. It looks like borer signs and I’m Address irrigation issue before ...

Sweet acacia is a small, deciduous tree or large shrub up to 20 feet tall and wide, with zigzag branching and feathery foliage. Its sweet-scented, orange-yellow, half-inch, ...

A: Drought is certainly one reason trees drop leaves.I just checked the sweet acacia at our office and it is dropping leaves as well. It gets no water except rain. Desert trees like the acacia ...

Sweet Acacia (Vachellia farnesiana) is a small tree that is very fragrant and produces small yellow pom-pom flowers. It grows 15 to 25 feet tall with a 15- to 25-foot spread.

Besides Florida, sweet acacia ranges through the Southern U.S. to California and south through tropical America. Across oceans, this tree is also present in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Sweet Acacia has high drought and salt tolerance and attracts birds. Geiger tree ( Cordia sebestena) is evergreen, 25 to 30 feet tall, 20 to 25 feet wide, with orange tubular flowers that bloom in ...

The flower gets its name from the resemblance it bears to the flowers of Vachellia farnesiana, also known as Acacia farnesiana, but commonly called sweet acacia, huisache or needle bush.