Mondell PinePhoenix's Best Evergreen Pine Tree for Year Round Privacy and Windbreaks Mondell Pine (Pinus eldarica) is the most popular evergreen pine tree in Phoenix Valley landscapes, prized for its ability to thrive in desert heat and deliver dense, year round green coverage. It grows 23 feet per year and reaches 3040 feet tall with a tidy 1520 foot spread. Whether you're building a windbreak in Peoria, creating a green privacy screen in Chandler, or adding

give it a full 8 to 10 foot footprint and skip the row spacing

Red Baron Peach: showy-flowering peach to add spring color in a mixed desert orchard

Roots settle in fast in the warm soil and cooling air

Warm soil and mild air let the slow-growing roots settle before winter

or plant directly in a shaded landscape bed along a covered walkway

Watering Palo Brea in Phoenix

The fragrant white blossoms in spring are an added bonus

asking only for occasional deep water

deep and slow (30+ min for large box specimens)

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Avoid summer planting from June through August — while Shoestring Acacia is drought-tough when established

Leaves return and the first trumpet blooms open as nights warm past 40°F