If you're from Arizona, you're going to be missing our colorful oleanders because they are dying from a bacterium and there is NO cure.
If you don't know, oleanders are a shrub that grows in the no-freeze zones. It has poisoness sap (Hey, it grows in Arizona so it has either poison or stickers) and white, pink or red flowers. Give them any water at all and they will grow to 20' tall and make a windbreak or privacy hedge between neighbors. Ignore them for a couple of years and you'll have to go after them with a chainsaw.
An incurable bacterium (probably from California, no further comment) is already killing plants in the north central Phoenix area. It is expected that the death of this hardy plant while spread throughout Arizona.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0520Oleander0520.html
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A West Valley resident for 37 years, Don knows what you need done and he knows how to do it correctly in Goodyear, Avondale, Buckeye, El Mirage, Litchfield Park, Surprise, and other West Valley cities
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Don: I had no idea that the oleander was a threatened species.
That's a bummer. I sure hope that bacteria doesn't come to tExas because I really love our oleanders.
This along with the bees.