Festival Landscaping

Arizona Plants & Cactus
When choosing your landscape plants be sure to drive around the Festival Ranch community and look at which plants and trees are doing well here. The plants that are are healthy, blooming, large - these are the ones you want to pick from. If you find a plant or tree in our neighborhood that you would like to know the name of, feel free to send us a photo and we'll help you out!
- If you see very few of a certain type of plant you need to ask yourself why... Has drought, disease, pests, or freezing temperatures wiped these plants out before they reached their full potential?
Silverleaf Texas Mountain LaurelSilverleaf Texas Mountain Laurel
Photo courtesy of The CainsPhoto courtesy of The Cains
Silverleaf Texas Mountain LaurelSilverleaf Texas Mountain Laurel
Photo courtesy of The CainsPhoto courtesy of The Cains
Silverleaf Texas Mountain LaurelSilverleaf Texas Mountain Laurel
Photo courtesy of The CainsPhoto courtesy of The Cains
Choose wisely and you'll have a landscape that will last decades!
The purpose of these links are to help you select from the best of these plants to create an attractive, water efficient landscape. The following links you can see photos and information about various plants and trees that you may be interested in.
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Landscape Plants for the Arizona Desert
Xeriscape Landscape Plants For The Arizona Desert Environment
Flower Planting Guide for the Low Desert
extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1100a.pdf
Cacti Care & Diseases
University of Arizona Horticulture Publications
Blue MyrtleBlue Myrtle
Cereus MonstroseCereus Monstrose
Soaptree YuccaSoaptree Yucca
Fire BarrelFire Barrel
Fire Barrels & Argentine GiantFire Barrels & Argentine Giant
Toothpick Argentine GiantToothpick Argentine Giant
Toothpick Argentine GiantToothpick Argentine Giant
Golden Barrel with babiesGolden Barrel with babies
Golden Barrel Golden Barrel
Argentine GiantArgentine Giant
Fire Barrels and Argentine GiantsFire Barrels and Argentine Giants
Fish Hook Barrel (Compass Barrel)Fish Hook Barrel (Compass Barrel)
San PedroSan Pedro
Argentine Giant FlowerArgentine Giant Flower
Beavertail Prickly PearBeavertail Prickly Pear
Euphorbia ResiniferaEuphorbia Resinifera
Euphorbia ResiniferaEuphorbia Resinifera
Golden Barrel ClustersGolden Barrel Clusters
Mexican FencepostMexican Fencepost
Native HedgehogNative Hedgehog
NotocactusNotocactus
Oreocereus CactusOreocereus Cactus
San PedroSan Pedro
Silvertorch CactusSilvertorch Cactus
Silvertorch CactusSilvertorch Cactus
Trichocereus GrandiflorusTrichocereus Grandiflorus
Trichocereus Hybrid FlowersTrichocereus Hybrid Flowers
Argentine GiantArgentine Giant
Red YuccaRed Yucca
Native Hedge HogNative Hedge Hog
Agave Royal SpineAgave Royal Spine
Agave Blue GlowAgave Blue Glow
Agave borvicornutaAgave borvicornuta
Agave medio picta albaAgave medio picta alba
Agave Mr. RippleAgave Mr. Ripple
Agave Queen Victoria (Stacy's personal favorite!)Agave Queen Victoria (Stacy's personal favorite!)
Beavertail Prickly PearBeavertail Prickly Pear
Beavertail Prickly PearBeavertail Prickly Pear
"Bunny Ears""Bunny Ears"
AGAVES
We dearly love these plant specimens. However, in the many years we've lived here in Festival Ranch we have yet to see them survive very long. This is due to the Snout Nosed Beetle (AKA "Tequila Worm").
When you look around the community and there are no larger specimens of a plant its usually been wiped out at some point by a freeze, drought, disease or pest infestation.
Here in Festival Ranch there is a large infestation of the Snout Nosed Beetle.
By the time you notice that these plants have been infested it is too late to do anything about it. And the measures that need to be taken to prevent these beetles can be laborious and time consuming.
Here's a great link to read a little more about this beetle an the same issues that we face in our area:
http://www.learn2grow.com/problemsolvers/insectsanimals/insectdamagecontrol/TequilaWorms.aspx