Morning Cloud Chitalpa
x Chitalpa tashkentensis 'Morning Cloud'
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Small, multi-stemmed deciduous tree with ascending branches becoming slightly cascading. Long, narrow, bright green leaves back large clusters of trumpet-shaped white flowers with purple throats.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | chi-TAL-pa tash-ken-TEN-sis |
| Key feature: | Summer Flowering |
| Plant type: | Tree |
| Garden styles: | Cottage, Mediterranean, Rustic, Tropical |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Deciduous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 6 - 8 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 3 - 24, 28 - 33 |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Fast growing to 25 to 30 ft. high, equal width. |
| Growth rate: | Fast |
| Flower attribute: | Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Attracts Hummingbirds, North American Native, Waterwise, Year-round Interest |
| Flower color: | White |
| Blooms: | Late spring into summer |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 2306 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.
Design Ideas
A beautiful accent tree that easily fits into average beds and borders. Use as a visual screen along property lines to block neighbors without losing much light or air circulation. A stunning single specimen in bloom and under night lighting. Perfect to augment dry xeriscape plantings in open beds with luxurios looks.
Companion Plants
Group desert willow with other star dryland performers such as All Gold Bougainvillea, (Boungainvillea x 'All Gold'), Dark Purple Autumn Sage, (Salvia greggii 'Navajo Dark Purple'), Zamphir Dwarf Coreopsis, (Coreopsis auriculata 'Zamphir') and Golden Sword Yucca, (Yucca filamentosa 'Golden Sword').
History
This tree is the result of an inter-genera cross of Catalpa bignoniodes and the desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, both native to the southwestern U.S. Both share the same Bignonia family of trumpet flowers. Catalpa contributes the larger leaves while the Chilopsis ensures increased drought and heat tolerance of this unique variety.
Lore
Hummingbirds find these plants irresistable as do many forms of insects.
Small, multi-stemmed deciduous tree with ascending branches becoming slightly cascading. Long, narrow, bright green leaves back large clusters of trumpet-shaped white flowers with purple throats.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.
Design Ideas
A beautiful accent tree that easily fits into average beds and borders. Use as a visual screen along property lines to block neighbors without losing much light or air circulation. A stunning single specimen in bloom and under night lighting. Perfect to augment dry xeriscape plantings in open beds with luxurios looks.
Companion Plants
Group desert willow with other star dryland performers such as All Gold Bougainvillea, (Boungainvillea x 'All Gold'), Dark Purple Autumn Sage, (Salvia greggii 'Navajo Dark Purple'), Zamphir Dwarf Coreopsis, (Coreopsis auriculata 'Zamphir') and Golden Sword Yucca, (Yucca filamentosa 'Golden Sword').
History
This tree is the result of an inter-genera cross of Catalpa bignoniodes and the desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, both native to the southwestern U.S. Both share the same Bignonia family of trumpet flowers. Catalpa contributes the larger leaves while the Chilopsis ensures increased drought and heat tolerance of this unique variety.
Lore
Hummingbirds find these plants irresistable as do many forms of insects.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | chi-TAL-pa tash-ken-TEN-sis |
| Key feature: | Summer Flowering |
| Plant type: | Tree |
| Garden styles: | Cottage, Mediterranean, Rustic, Tropical |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Deciduous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 6 - 8 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 3 - 24, 28 - 33 |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Fast growing to 25 to 30 ft. high, equal width. |
| Growth rate: | Fast |
| Flower attribute: | Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Attracts Hummingbirds, North American Native, Waterwise, Year-round Interest |
| Flower color: | White |
| Blooms: | Late spring into summer |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 2306 |
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