Crested San Pedro low-water Its fountain-like form and silvery-green

Its fountain-like form and silvery-green color create an eye-catching focal point in entry courts

Chilean Mesquite is a large specimen shade tree (25 to 35 feet wide at maturity)

and the same distance from walls

or Ruellia at its base for a layered low-water garden

rounded form and silvery foliage create year-round structure and contrast against desert-toned walls and gravel

Crested San Pedro low-water Its fountain-like form and silvery-greenRare Crested San Pedro Phoenix's Most Prized Collector Cactus Crested San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi f. cristata) is one of the most sought after collector cacti in the desert Southwest. Instead of growing as a normal columnar cactus, the crested mutation produces a spectacular fan shaped, undulating crest that looks like a living wave of blue green growth. Each specimen is completely unique no two crests form the same pattern. Despite its rare