Perhaps because of the color of the bloom, smoke trees have been revered on the desert. Millicent Harvey's close up of smoke tree bloom. Nellie Coffman, the owner and proprietor of The Desert Inn ...

The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees. Rooted in the ...

Perhaps because of the color of the bloom, smoke trees have been revered on the desert. Nellie Coffman, the owner and proprietor of The Desert Inn, excoriated anyone who even tampered with the trees.

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in ...

Local names for the Desert Smoketree are about as common as the many crooked shapes and sizes of this arid land plant. Indigo bush, Smoke Thorn, Smoke Tree and Smokethorn Dalea are all names ...

Smoke rose from the ... one of the desert’s most flammable plants, alone. Blackbrush also acts as an important nursery plant for Joshua tree seeds by shading them and hiding them from hungry ...

Joshua trees, which grow nowhere else in the world besides the Mojave Desert, are particularly vulnerable ... s moderated a little bit [today], so the smoke levels have improved,” Peebles ...

I had made my reservation and prepaid for my stay. Still, I was nervous driving up to the gates that keep the ultraprivate ranch resort away from the rest of Palm Springs — and, by extension ...