Establishing V&P Nursery

COMMENTARY

• Demetrious teaching spanish and horniculture program at Marcus Diniso High School
• Establishing plants and trees in the backyard with first sales to local businesses
• Purchasing 20 acres after outgrowing the backyard that led to V&P Nursery
• Grown to 300 acres of many plant and tree varities supplying 5-6 states

V&P Nursery Shade Trees Offerings

COMMENTARY

• Various types of popular arid shade tree
  • Mesquite
  • Palo Verde
  • Chilopsis
  • Desert Willow
• Jay explains why he puts the Red Push Pistache as an arid tree
• Discussion of V&P’s plant breeding program
  • Developed the Rio Salado Chilopsis and Mesquite
  • ‘AZT‘ Thornless Hybrid Mesquite at maturity becomes seedless and thornless
• The history developing drought tollerant low water use trees and shrubs is an industry in itself
• Growing 50 varities of trees from cuttings and seeds to large mature trees takes time
• Estimating future demand and trends for trees

Takeaways

COMMENTARY

• Places to see mature tree examples
  • Desert Botanical Gardens
  • Boyce Thompson Arboritum
  • ASU Desert Arboritum Park on campus
  • Take pictures of trees that catch your eye
• Biggest mistake in landscaping is underestimating how big things get
• Explaining the plant breeding program propagating thru tissue culture and air layering

RESOURCE

• V & P Nurseries