Flowering Trees
From the soft purples of Jacarandas to the giant white and fragrant blooms of the Magnolia, there’s nothing like flowering trees to create interest and aroma in your landscape. Flowering trees come in many colors, shapes, textures and sizes so you’ll be able to feature your favorite color prominently in your landscape.
Types of Flowering Trees
Hong Kong Orchid
Bauhinia blakeana
Gorgeous, large shade tree prized for its beautiful foliage and abundant, sterile blooms in early spring, fall, and early winter.
Purple Orchid
Bauhinia purpurea
This beautifully structured, showy tropical tree offers rich, exotic pink/purple blooms and provides long-lasting beauty to landscapes.
Jacaranda
Jacaranda mimosifolia
The Jacaranda tree is a beautiful, large, and great-for-climbing shade tree grown and nurtured at Moon Valley Nurseries.
Lemon Bottlebrush Tree
Callistemon citrinus
Named for its brush-shaped flowers that are peppered throughout the foliage. Canopies grow thick and green allowing for maximum shade and privacy.
Tipu
Tipuana tipu
One of, if not the best shade tree you can plant on your property. Colorful, Tipu Tree's provide great shade and year-round beauty.
Museum Palo Verde
Cercidium-parkinsonia hybrid
A very fast growing water wise hybrid version of the classic Palo Verde. Bright yellow, showy blooms in spring.
Purple Leaf Plum
Prunus cerasifera ‘Krauter vesuvius’
Unique purple leaves provide a year-round strong color that contrasts extremely well with other tree species.
Mimosa
Albizia julibrissin
This beautiful rainforest-style tree actually performs very well in the intense sun. Unique pink blooms highlight the tree throughout most of the late spring into early summer.
Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia
This extremely colorful, stylish tree makes a perfect choice for color lovers! One of the very few landscape favorites that provide summer color.
Sweet Acacia
Acacia smallii
This drought tolerant Sonoran native is well known for its beautiful and aromatic blooms during early spring.
Oleander Tree
Nerium oleander
A rare combination of being an evergreen and producing vibrant color, makes the Oleander tree useful in many landscapes.
Plumeria
Plumeria rubra
One of the most gorgeous tropical trees available with stunning leathery leaves and an abundance of flowers. Commonly referred to as the ‘Hawaiian lei flower'.
Flowering Pear
Pyrus calleryana
This bright green tree features a cascade of snow white flowers during early spring with brilliant red fall foliage.
Desert Willow
Chilopsis linearis
Greatly resembling a Willow, they are small to medium trees with beautiful multi-colored flowers in cycles spring through fall.
Vitex
Vitex agnus-castus
Offers a gorgeous display of gray-green foliage and terminal clusters of fragrant lilac blooms. Thrive in the heat and also great for use as a hedge.
Acacia Saligna
Acacia saligna
These Acacias grow a very wide umbrella-shaped canopy that provides filtered shade year round. They are a very fast growing tree with great durability to heat and cold.
Palo Brea
Cercidium praecox
This Sonoran native features unique green trunks that twist and turn to form interesting, irregular patterns throughout the tree.
Blue Palo Verde
Cercidium floridum
Known for its early arrival of bright golden yellow flowers, the Palo Verde is among the most popular trees used in desert and water-wise landscapes.
Texas Mountain Laurel
Sophora secundiflora
Known well for it's fragrant, early spring blooms, Texas Mountain Laurels are grown more for looks than shade.
Japanese Privet
Ligustrum japonicum
Japanese Privet provide both year-round shade and big seasonal color requiring very little maintenance.
Magnolia 'D.D. Blanchard'
Magnolia grandiflora 'D.D. Blanchard'
Magnolia trees add big color and shade anywhere they're planted. Bring a unique and tropical look to landscapes. Blooms produce a beautiful white aromatic flower.
Magnolia Little Gem
Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem'
Classic southern Magnolia, with glossy leaves and big, fragrant white blossoms that enhance any landscape. Good for smaller areas when used as a small tree or shrub.
Teddy Bear Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora 'Southern Charm'
Grow great in our climate, producing large white fragrant blooms. These are easily kept smaller for tighter spaces and can be used as privacy hedge and for shade.
Samuel Sommer Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora 'Samuel Sommer’
Thick, dense evergreen shade tree distinguishable by its beautifully fragrant summertime blooms. Compact growth style works well in all landscape applications.
Thevetia
Thevetia peruviana
Small to medium evergreen tree that establishes a large umbrella-shaped canopy. Makes a good screen, hedge or background. Great shade provider in corners or walkways.
Mulga Acacia
Acacia aneura
The Mulga Acacia is an evergreen desert tree used in many landscape styles for its unique foliage, smaller size, and showy golden flowers
Japanese Blueberry
Elaeocarpus decipiens
Sought after for the thick, hardy canopies they grow that are highly resistant to the elements. A dependable shade, wind break or privacy hedge.
Chitalpa
Chitalpa tashkentensis
This is a great water wise choice for those desiring a tree with a softer, greener appearance. Beautiful pink blooms are present from summer through fall.
African Tulip
Spathodea campanulata
The African Tulip Tree is one of the most popular of flowering trees due to its abundant large blooms that produce spring and fall.
New Zealand Christmas Tree
Metrosideros excelsa
New Zealand Christmas Tree is a more narrow and upright growing evergreen tree that grows great in our full sun.
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