Week Ending 4/9/11

Bold = locally native plant

FLOWERING / POLLINATING
Torrey Yucca / Yucca torreyi
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Apache Plume / Fallugia paradoxa
Wisteria / Wisteria sinensis

LEAFING OUT / STEM GROWTH
Desert or California Fan Palm / Washingtonia filifera
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Yellow Bird of Paradise / Caeselpinia gilliesii (from base, severe top-kill)

Crepe Myrtle / Lagerstroemia indica
Pomegranate / Punica granatum

BUDS BREAKING

Ocotillo / Fouquieria splendens

Chaste Tree or Monk's Pepper Tree / Vitex agnus-castus


ANIMALS AND INSECT ACTIVITY
Mourning doves, Mule Deer, Scaled and Gambel's Quail galore!

Week Ending 3/26/11

Bold = locally native plant

FLOWERING / POLLINATING
Torrey Yucca / Yucca torreyi
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Starleaf Mexican Orange / Choisya dumosa
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Spiny Hedgehog / Echinocereus coccineus
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Chocolate Flower / Berlandiera lyrata
Mexican Gold Poppy / Eschscholzia mexicana (at UTEP Chihuahuan Desert Garden, has irrigation)
Cliff Fendlerbush / Fendlera rupicola
Parry's Penstemon / Penstemon parryi

Red Penstemon / Penstemon wrightii

LEAFING OUT / STEM GROWTH

Anacacho Orchid Tree / Bauhinia lunaroides
Redbud / Cercis spp.

Desert Willow / Chilopsis linearis (some, not all)
Golden Raintree / Koelreuteria paniculata
Goldenball Leadtree / Leucanea retusa
White Mulberry / Morus alba
Chinese Pistache / Pistacia chinensis
Honey Mesquite / Prosopis glandulosa
Purple Plum / Prunus cerasifera 'Krauter Vesuvius'
Bradford Pear / Pyrus calleryana
Texas Mountain Laurel / Sophora secundiflora
Mexican Fan Palm / Washingtonia filifera
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Winter Jasmine / Jasminum nudiflorum
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Bearded Iris / Iris germanica

BUDS BREAKING
Autumn Sage / Salvia greggii
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Red Yucca / Hesperaloe parviflora


ANIMALS AND INSECT ACTIVITY
Birds, insects active

Week Ending 3/12/11

Bold = locally native plant

FLOWERING / POLLINATING
Redbud / Cercis spp.
Purple Plum / Prunus cerasifera 'Krauter Vesuvius'
Bradford Pear / Pyrus calleryana

LEAFING OUT / STEM GROWTH

Bearded Iris / Iris germanica

BUDS BREAKING
White Mulberry / Morus alba


ANIMALS AND INSECT ACTIVITY
Like Abq, except I thought I heard a few hummingbirds, and the mourning doves were definitely more active