From afar (or even from just 10 feet away), the patch of land just south of Highway 62 and east of the town of Joshua Tree looks like any other undeveloped parcel of Mojave Desert landscape, dotted ...
This is top of mind for many of us after the summer of 2024 left behind defeated trees ... sustainable landscaping options, one local nursery sells plants that withstand the desert’s challenges.
But around a million years ago, the climate dried up and the trees vanished. The landscape turned to a Mojave-like desert shrub land — an extremely arid place that seemed inhospitable for early ...
This year’s crop of about 30 Christmas trees was packed into a large ditch left by an earlier downpour, so future rainfall will remain on site to spur the growth of native desert plants.