Mohave Horticultural Failures

I've seen plenty of people move to the Mojave - especially during the Airbnb boom between 2017-2022 - and try to plant shitty oleander or other horticultural atrocities, and fail miserably. It is just too dry here (average rainfall 4-5", sometimes not even that). There are dead non-native trees everywhere out here, anywhere there is human development. When you look at the landscape here it begins…