Coconino Western Oak

The Coconino Western Oak is a unique variety of the wavyleaf oak, a natural hybrid oak from Arizona. It has attractive silvery blue-green leaves with spiny edges, more like a holly than an oak tree. It forms a large shrub or small, multi-stem tree growing to perhaps 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide. It is completely evergreen even in cold zones and combines excellent drought resistance with cold resistance as well. Grow in a xeric or low-water garden, on dry, rocky slopes, as a specimen or screen.

• Attractive small bushy tree for dry gardens
• Handsome silvery blue-green evergreen leaves
• Both drought and cold-resistant
• Suitable for xeric and low-water gardens
• Easy to grow and low-maintenance

Full sun or some partial shade are fine for the Coconino Western Oak. It grows in any well-drained soil, including rocky and alkaline soils, and once established it is very drought resistant. It isn’t bothered by pests or diseases and it is likely that deer won’t eat it either. You could do some formative pruning and make it more tree-like, if you wished, or simply leave it to take care of itself, even in harsh conditions.