Proven Winners® El Nino® Chitalpa Desert Orchid
Chitalpa
Pink-purple blooms
Sweet vanilla-melon scent
Disease-resistant and deer-resistant
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Summer-Long Blooms with Exotic Fragrance
The El Nino® Chitalpa Desert Orchid is a rare hybrid with show-stopping appeal. Bred from the desert willow and catalpa, this unique plant delivers the best of both worlds—tropical-looking, orchid-like flowers and long-lasting durability. Its compact form makes it perfect for smaller landscapes, and the blooms smell like a sweet mix of vanilla and ripe melon.
Unlike traditional flowering shrubs, El Nino® puts on a show all summer long, blooming on new wood for reliable color year after year. Intricate pink-purple flowers emerge in late spring and continue to pop up throughout the season. It’s also drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, and thrives in both dry and moist conditions.
Its sweet fragrance attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, bringing life to your garden, patio, or landscape border. Despite its delicate look, this plant is low-maintenance, deer-resistant, and built to withstand heat and harsh conditions.
Compact, fragrant, and visually unforgettable, El Nino® Chitalpa Desert Orchid is as rare as it is rewarding. If you're looking to add a true conversation piece to your garden that also happens to be easy to care for, then grab your El Nino® Chitalpa Desert Orchid today!
About Proven Winners®: Proven Winners® ColorChoice Shrubs offers flowering shrubs, evergreens, and trees that have been tested for eight to ten years to ensure they outperform conventional varieties. That means bigger flowers, more colorful foliage, reblooming, disease resistance, new habits, or anything that makes them more beautiful and easier to grow in your landscape or garden.
Full Planting & Care Instructions
Product Details
| Mature Height: | 10-15 ft. |
| Mature Width: | 8-10 ft. |
| Sunlight: | Partial Shade, Full Sun |
| Bloom Season(s): | Summer Blooming, Spring Blooming |
| Growth Rate: | Moderate Growing |
| Botanical Name: | Chitalpa |
| Does Not Ship To: | AK, AZ, HI |
| Grows Well In Zones: | 6-9 outdoors |
Growing Zones: 6-9 outdoors
(hardy down to 0℉)
Customer Reviews & Photos
Based on 11 reviews
Chitalpa desert orchid
A little small but so far so good!
Likes full sun. Came in
Likes full sun. Came in great condition. Amazingly, it flowered within few weeks of arriving. Roots are tight ball so remember to follow your planting instructions and cut the root ball, keep watering every day or two while it is young, Especially during hot hot summer. It seems that this tree’s m/o drops flowers after a few days and then continually grows new ones, that is the way it works. So far only small pollinators, hummingbirds and butterflies not interested, just bees and wasps.
Can't wait to see the 1st blossoms!!!
The plant arrived in great shape! I've got it in a container for now until it gets a little larger, then we'll plant it in the ground next to the fence in the southeast corner so it can show off it's blossoms.
El Niño
Just planted six El Niño s for the first time and can hardly wait to see them show off in my Garden
Small and pale (leaves) but doing well.
The plants were small enough that I have decided to grow them in pots for a season to get them large enough to detect while mowing before putting them in the ground. Leaves were pale - nearly white - on arrival and may have emerged on the road. As soon as I put them out in the sun they greened up and being joined by new leaves every day.
