Desert Museum Palo Verde
Parkinsonia ‘Desert Museum’ · a thornless hybrid palo verde
- Mature size
- 25 × 25 ft
- 7.5 × 7.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 8b–11b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
- Blooms
- Mar–May
Desert Museum Palo Verde at its mature size
A mature Desert Museum Palo Verde grows 25 to 30 feet tall and just as wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: desertmuseum.org, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Through the year
What Desert Museum Palo Verde looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Jun–Feb
Tiny green leaflets on green branches, no flowers.
In flower · Mar–May
Airy green canopy covered in bright yellow flowers.
Growing Desert Museum Palo Verde
- Grows well in
- The desert Southwest and California.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Drought tolerant, pollinators, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid of Sonoran Desert palo verdes (Arizona, northwest Mexico)
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Desert Museum Palo Verde, that’s about 25 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Desert Museum Palo Verde in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.