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Approved Rock for front yards is ' 1/2"  Desert Brown'

Approved Lists of Trees and Plants

Replacing Trees

The species listed below have been selected by a Certified Arborist as offering the best combination of maintenance, appearance and tolerance of the environment. If you need to replace tree, please choose from the approved list.

Current list of replacement trees:

FEATHER TREE (Lysiloma Watsoni) example 7396 Navigator Lane

WILLOW HERITAGE OAK (Quercus Fusiformis) example 7349 Maritime

Monk's Pepper Tree or Chaste Tree (Vitex Agnus Castus)
    no show during Winter Months (purple flowers)

EVERGREEN JAPANESE PISTACIA  (Pistacia Lentiscus)
    example 8595 Compass or 7244 Maritime

TEXAS MOUNTAIN LAUREL

TEXAS EBONY

 

 

September 21, 2006

Approved Plant List

For questions, please contact the Landscaping Committee

Only plants on this list may be planted in Cove front yards. You are welcome to replace a dead plant in your yard at your expense, but you need to ensure that the location is supported by the existing irrigation system The list is derived from the official low water plant list of the Southern Arizona Water Resource Association, Arizona Department of Water Resource, City of Tucson. The plants on this list have prospered in the Tucson area with moderate to no supplemental irrigation once they are Established.

Cactus:

Saguaro

Desert Spoon

Ferocactus – Compass Barrel, Fishhook barrel, Golden Fouquieria – Octillo

Organ Pipe Cactus

Lantana – Trailing

Teucrium chamacdrys – Germander (only flowers in summer) Verbena

Shrubs:

Acacia

Bougainvilla

Calliandra – Fairy buster

Caesalpinia – Bird of Paradise (10-20 ft)

Eremophila decipiens - Emu (winter color) Euphorbia (except Tirucalli)

Feathery Cassia

Hesperaloe – Red Yucca Justicia – Mexican Honeysuckle

Leucophyllum – Texas Sage or Ranger Lantana – Bush

Lysiloma thornberi – Feather bush (12-15 ft) Nandina – Heavenly Bamboo

Simmondsia chinensis – Jojoba, Goat Nut Salvia

Tecoma – Trumpt bush

Teucrium fruticans – bush germander (blooms year round)

Oleander

Succulents:

Agave Aloe

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