Somehow lost a mature blue palo verde in my front yard. There’s a wash that drains from the neighboring paddock that cuts between these two “islands” where a mesquite and PV were sort of holding it all together. Going to just plant some prickly pears and a barrel cactus for now, but I need about 3 more mature trees. #sonoran #landscaping #trees #desert
One additional important note is that we hadn’t had rain in over 200 days putting the phoenix valley into severe drought. We got 3-4 days of monsoon volumes of winter rain. My drainage all worked out extremely well, outside of the one PV. Still not positive how or why it fell, it was very healthy so root disease of some form seems unlikely.