Have You Considered A Site Evaluation or Consultation?

Are you are planning a new landscape or adding to an existing one?

Do You Want to add a few trees and shrubs but you’re not sure

if they are site or climate appropriate?

If so, then consider a Site Evaluation or Consultation?

Trees That Please Nursery will, at your request,

visit your landscape site, whether it be your home or business

and help you answer the numerous planting and care questions that can arise.

Some Of The Questions We Ask and Evaluate Include:

Soil Drainage Characteristics.

How Will You Water?

Plant Growing Space Requirements.

Are Structures Nearby?

Under and Above Ground Utilities.

Septic Tank and Leach Field Locations.

Plant Purpose: Shade, Specimen, Flowers, etc.

Mature Plant Dimensions.

Acidic or Alkaline Soil Requiring Plants.

Evergreen or Deciduous Plants.

Once These Concerns Have Been Addressed

The Staff Of Trees That Please Nursery Can Help Or Make Suggestions

For Trees And Shrubs Based Upon Your Desires Or Requirements For The Site?

For More Information Contact The Nursery At:

Phone: 505-866-5027

Email: treesthatplease@comcast.net

Photos & Narrative By:

Stephen Sain

Staff Plant Physiologist

Trees That Please Nursery

Retail and Wholesale Nurseries Unique Choice

Serving Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Lunas, and Belen

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Weed Identification: Goatheads or Stickers

Goatheads ( Tribulus terrestris ) are native to Southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Goatheads are also called stickers, sticker weed, bullhead, devil’s weed, and puncturevine. Goatheads are easily recognized by their prostrate growth form, leaves with leaflets, yellow flowers, and stickers (Goatheads). If you miss’em visually then they will stab you painfully in the fingers as you work your garden, or stick to your clothing and shoes. Goatheads are the primary reason local bicyclists must get “thorn proof” tires for riding on area trails and streets. Goatheads have prostrate stems that radiate outward from one central point. Leaves are compound with smaller leaflets. Lemon yellow flowers form along the stems and fertilized flowers form fruits. Fruits consist of several attached structures called nutlets (Goatheads). Each nutlet is a single seed that becomes hard or woody when mature. Each seed has two sharp spines that easily penetrat

Weed Identification: Sand Bur

Sand Bur ( Cenchrus longispinus ) is native to North America. It has other names like sand spur, long-spined sand bur, hedgehog grass, and bur grass . Sand Bur is an annual grass usually growing with a prostrate growth form. It is similar in appearance to other grasses prior to seed formation. Individual plants may be 3’ in diameter, sometimes larger. Sand Bur is a common weed of sandy soils but also grows well elsewhere. Sand Bur will often root at stem nodes that are touching the ground. The root system of Sand Bur is shallow and fibrous making them easily pulled (when immature). Sand Bur produces a flowering spike. As seeds begin to form Sand Bur is easily recognized by its numerous sharp or burred seeds or long spines. As the burred seeds mature they are easily separated from the mother plant and their sharp spines stick to virtually anything. Sand Bur can disseminate its seeds long distances because its sharp spines will hitch a ride on skin, animal hides,

Western Soapberry Tree

The Western Soapberry tree ( Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii ) is native to New Mexico. It grows wild from Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana westward through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, and Mexico. The fruit of the Western Soapberry tree is a drupe. Mature fruits are translucent, amber colored, and contain a black seed. The mature fruit without the seed will produce a good lather with water and has been used as a soap substitute. Fruits persist on the trees through winter. T he Western Soapberry tree can grow 1′-2′ annually reaching 25′-30′ tall and wide making it a good sized shade tree. Fall leaf color is an attractive golden yellow. Currently, there are no improved varieties of the Western Soapberry Tree. It grows well on the alkaline soils of New Mexico and is very tolerant of heat and drought once established. This tree is rarely affected by disease or insect pests making it an ideal specimen tree for your yard or landscape. S

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