Spring in the Tucson Desert:  A marvelous spectacle.  The seemingly overnight explosion of neon green on the cottonwood is a personal favorite, as it’s a welcoming sign of blue skies, hummingbird nests, and the floral eruptions that unfold through the warmer months.   A few weeks back I paced around my yard (a Mesquite Homes yard) and assessed the damage from The Great Freeze.  Nearly every one of my newly planted succulents, cactus and shrubs looked all but lost.  Patiently, I took to planting this year’s tomatoes, herbs, and flowers leaving nature to surprise me with the bulk; and boy did she!  Some didn’t make it, but the majority passed Ol’ Darwin’s test.

The wildflower is underappreciated testament to desert survival that has always captured my respect.  Each year the hot and dry months reduce the plant to a brittle brown carcass that crushes easily under the passing foot.  And each year where their ancestors stood, without supplemental watering or soil work, the seeds having waited winter through push a new plant skyward. 

When our landscape company asked me last week, “should we pull the weeds at the Mesquites at Riverbend and the Mesquites on Pantano” my green thumb nearly wilted.  “Those are wildflowers!!!” I proclaimed in shock, only to get the candid reply… “they are indeed, but everyone else (other builders) have us pull them at first sight”.  And then it occurred to me…this otherwise trivial exchange, to save or not to save this weed and the natural beauty it would soon bring our homeowners is the level of detail that we micro-manage on a daily basis at Mesquite Homes.  It’s not that we lack focus or lives; the simple fact is that we are a small local builder, offering the agility to focus on what matters to you and what matters to us.  Our size is our strength in this respect.   It simply doesn’t stop after the sale, take it from me.  We are here now, we’ll be here throughout the exciting process of building your home, and we’ll be here for you long after you turn the key….as your local home builder should be.

You cannot survive in the desert being average.  We are different, I know.

Do you know how Mesquite Homes is different than the other Tucson Home Builders?