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at maturity but can be pruned and maintained to be a medium sized shrub. The silvery evergreen foliage and salmon-colored blooms which appear sporadically in winter make this plant stand out amongst the crowd in the cooler months. The best quality is that it produces very little seeds and overall can handle poor soils in a wide range of exposures. The Galphimia gracilis, or Shower of Gold, is native to Eastern Mexico and is a wonderful background plant here in the Southwest offering plentiful clusters of vibrant golden flowers from spring through fall. This fast-growing medium sized shrub reaches about four to six feet tall and wide in warm season. It can be trimmed all the way down to the ground in early spring if not frost damaged to provide a nice compact form. Overall, this plant loves the intense heat and would appreciate regular watering until it has been established in the landscape becoming more Larrea tridentata drought tolerant. The Larrea tridentata ‘Yuma’ Eremophila pterocarpa Galphimia gracilis or Upright Creosote was discovered by our owner Ron Gass order to provide a premier selection of plants for years ago traveling through Yuma and noticed nurseries, landscapers, architects, municipalities, the upright habit of the Creosotes in the area. and more. These are ever-evolving processes, and This unique form grows ten feet plus and five we continue to rely on the past and future genera- to six feet wide when mature and becoming tions at MSWN to help us succeed. thicker over time. It performs best in full sun with Over the past couple of years, we have had well-draining soil and favors being on the drier some astounding, hardworking and distinguished side. Light pruning is necessary from its natural personnel hang up their gloves. These trail blaz- upright form. ing colleagues have paved the way and nurtured Over time we will be introducing new and countless great connections to make MSWN what improved varieties and selections that are tested is it today here locally and across the southwest to perform in our hot and dry climate. As always, region. We would like to welcome the many new we will have more information available on our Galphimia gracilis faces to our team as we start to turn a new leaf website at www.mswn.com. into this next decade. As we transition and pass the torch onto the next crop, we are preparing for the constant rise in demand and need for the plants we grow. We have been busy bees propagating, planting, shifting and filling containers up at our Glendale and Cochise yards as we jump into the spring season. Our dispatch team has been hard at work accommodating deliveries from Texas to California and up into Nevada and Utah. We have also been filling our trucks with orders for local deliveries and throughout the state. We have Mountain States Wholesale Nursery offers over 400 taxa our own fleet of trucks and drivers who work including desert adapted trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses, diligently to get the plant orders to you as soon as accent and flowering perennials, groundcovers and vines. We specialize in providing landscape plants that fuse natural we can. As we strive to grow as a company, we will beauty with water efficiency. It is our goal to provide quality continue to contract out additional resources as plant material that integrates the spirit of landscape design, needed in order to provide elite customer service. while reflecting the beauty of the natural desert. Most importantly we would like to highlight mswn.com three plants that we offer, each having their own Mountain States Wholesale Nursery distinctive qualities: Eremophila pterocarpa, 13803 W Northern Ave., Glendale, AZ 85307 Galphimia gracilis and Larrea tridentata ‘Yuma’. 623-247-8509 The Eremophila pterocarpa, or the WingedWe invite our wholesale customers to visit our nursery, explore fruit Emu bush, is an Australian native which the variety of plants collected from the deserts of the world provides year-round interest, can handle extreme and the innovative introductions produced at our growing heat and is very drought tolerant. This larger grounds in Glendale, AZ. shrub reaches about six to eight feet tall and wide
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ountain States Wholesale Nursery would like to extend our appreciation to all that have supported and continued to encourage us as a company. Without your support, we would not be able to be a top tier producer and wholesale supplier of drought tolerant and desertadapted plants for over 50 years. The past two years of a global pandemic have introduced many challenges for everyone. We have been working tirelessly to adapt to our ever-changing world while striving to become a more self-sufficient company. This has been accomplished through a focus on in-house propagation and production in
