Trees That Please Nursery has a great selection of little pricks for the xeric portion of your yard. Our little pricks, also known as cacti, are New Mexico natives and offer low water and low maintenance for the backyard gardener. Put them in the hottest part of your yard and watch them thrive. They also make great defensive perimeters, protecting windows or pathways from unwanted traffic. We propagate several varieties of Prickly-Pear, Cholla, Yucca, Agave, and Sotol. All produce flowers and some have edible fruit. Contact Trees That Please Nursery for our cacti (little pricks) list.
The Shantung Maple ( Acer truncatum ) is also known as the Purple Blow Maple due to the color of its newly emerging leaves which are red-purple (see photo below). These young expanding red-purple leaves change to green as they mature. Leaves are small, about the size of Japanese Red Maple leaves, perhaps 3’-4’ wide at maturity. The Shantung Maple grows 1′-2′ annually reaching 25″ tall and wide. This is our tree for all planting situations. This Maple does well in heavy clay, sandy soils, full sun, or part shade. It can be planted in a lawn or next to a hot asphalt street (see photo below). It seemingly is a happy tree enjoying life wherever it is placed. One place we would not recommend planting this tree is in a rockscape which is just too hot and inhospitable to support this beautiful tree. A smaller tree, the Shantung Ma...
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