AMENITIES
Made for everyday life.
Community spaces and apartment features across Desertscapes. Features vary by apartment - ask our leasing team what is available in the home you are considering.
Open today
Everything below is here and in use right now.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Coming with the renovation
All of this is part of the renovation now underway, built in phases. No completion dates are published - ask our leasing team what is finished today.
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Trees
Desert Willow
FLOOR PLAN NAME
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
A true New Mexico native, found wild along desert washes across the Southwest. Not a willow at all - it throws trumpet flowers all summer that hummingbirds work over, and once its roots are down it wants almost nothing from a hose.
Chinese Pistache
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
From China, and one of the few trees that gives Albuquerque dependable autumn colour. It shrugs off alkaline soil, reflected heat and drought, which is why it turns up on so many Southwest streets.
Smoke Tree
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Southern Europe and Asia. The dusky purple leaves hold colour all season and the spent flowers form a haze that reads like smoke from a distance. Poor dry soil suits it better than rich ground.
Afghan Pine
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
From the dry country of Afghanistan and Iran, which is close enough to ours that it has become a Southwest standard. Evergreen structure through winter, and it takes wind, heat and alkaline soil without complaint.
Chaste Tree
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Mediterranean. It flowers in blue spikes in late summer, the point in an Albuquerque year when most things have given up, and it treats our heat as normal weather.
Shrubs, cactus, grasses and perennials
Blue Mist Spirea
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
A garden hybrid of Asian parents, grown here for the haze of blue it throws in late summer. Bees find it from a long way off, and it asks for very little water.
Red Yucca
FLOOR PLAN NAME
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
From Texas and northern Mexico, and not a true yucca. Coral flower spikes stand well above the leaves for months and hummingbirds work them daily. The most planted plant in this landscape, and the name on our one-bedroom.
Autumn Sage
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Texas and Mexico. It flowers from spring until frost stops it, which is an unusually long shift, and it keeps going on the kind of water most plants would sulk about.
Knockout Rose
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
A modern rose bred for people who do not want to fuss over roses. It carries colour for months and resists the diseases that make traditional roses hard work in a dry climate.
Yellow Bird of Paradise
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Originally South American and long since naturalised across the Southwest. It looks tropical and behaves like a desert plant, producing yellow flowers with long red stamens on almost no water.
Damianita
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
A Chihuahuan Desert native that reaches into southern New Mexico. A low evergreen mound that disappears under yellow daisies, with resinous foliage that smells sharp and clean when you brush past it.
Texas Sage
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
From the Chihuahuan Desert of Texas and Mexico. Silver foliage year-round, and it flowers purple in response to humidity - gardeners call it the barometer bush because it blooms after monsoon rain.
Moonshine Yarrow
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Yarrow grows across the northern hemisphere; this is a selection bred for sulphur-yellow flower plates over silver foliage. Flat flower heads make easy landing pads for pollinators, on very little water.
Whirling Butterflies Gaura
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Native to Texas and Louisiana. White flowers on wiry stems that move in the smallest breeze - the common name is whirling butterflies, and once you have seen it in wind the name explains itself.
Texas Sotol
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Chihuahuan Desert. A spherical burst of toothed blue-green leaves that holds its shape every day of the year, which is why it earns a place where structure matters more than flowers.
Potentilla
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Found across the northern hemisphere including the mountain West. It flowers for months and handles cold better than most of this palette, which matters at Albuquerque’s elevation.
Prickly Pear
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
Native right across New Mexico. Flat pads, silk-textured flowers in spring, then the fruit. Once it is established it lives on whatever the sky provides and nothing else.
Spanish Broom
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Mediterranean. Nearly leafless green stems that photosynthesise on their own, hung with fragrant yellow pea flowers - a plant built for places where water is scarce and light is not.
Feather Reed Grass
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
A sterile European hybrid, planted for its strict vertical habit. It catches every breeze, so it puts movement into a planting that is otherwise still, and it holds its shape right through winter.
Agave
FLOOR PLAN NAME
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
From Mexico and the desert Southwest. A sculptural rosette that reads as architecture rather than planting, and the shape at the centre of this community’s own logo. It names our studio.
Catmint
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Eurasian, and one of the hardest-working plants in any dry garden. A long soft haze of lavender-blue that pollinators stay on all season, asking for very little in return.
Soaptree Yucca
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
A New Mexico native, and the yucca flower is our state flower. Sword leaves in a fountain with a tall creamy flower stalk in summer. Roots were historically used to make soap, which is where the name comes from.
Apache Plume
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
A New Mexico native and one of the toughest plants here. White rose-like flowers give way to feathery pink seed heads that catch low sun and glow, which is the real reason to plant it.
Fernbush
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
Native to the intermountain West including New Mexico. Finely cut aromatic foliage that looks like a fern and behaves like a desert shrub, topped with white flower spikes in summer.
Ocotillo
FLOOR PLAN NAME
NEW MEXICO NATIVE
Native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts and into southern New Mexico. Bare spiny canes most of the year that leaf out within days of rain and tip themselves with scarlet flowers. It names our three-bedroom.
Arp Rosemary
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
Mediterranean, and this is the Arp selection specifically - chosen because it survives winters that kill ordinary rosemary. Evergreen, aromatic, and it earns its place by the walkways where people brush past.
Butterfly Bush
ADAPTED TO ALBUQUERQUE
From China. Long flower panicles that butterflies work constantly through summer, on a shrub that tolerates dry ground and neglect.
What they look like grown in
Eleven of the species from the contract, photographed mature. The drawings above are the full palette.
Desert Willow
Chinese Pistache
Smoke Tree
Afghan Pine
Chaste Tree
Red Yucca
Texas Sage
Damianita
Prickly Pear
Agave
Ocotillo
On the ground right now
The pergola, grill and paver patio going in. Work is phased and still underway - ask our leasing team what is finished today.
Concept rendering. Final appearance may vary.
A LIGHTER FOOTPRINT
Built to use less.
A desert property should live like one. Three pieces of this renovation are about using less of what Albuquerque does not have to spare.
SUNLIGHT
Solar power
Solar panels are being installed at the community, so more of the power used here is generated here rather than drawn off the grid.
WATER
Desert planting
The old turf is being replaced with 82 trees and more than 1,000 shrubs, grasses and perennials chosen because they live on Albuquerque rainfall.
SHADE
Trees where people walk
New trees are going in along the walkways and around the gathering areas, so the ground people actually use stays cooler in summer.
All three are in progress. Ask our leasing team what is finished today.
THE PLAN
What the finished grounds look like
These are the landscape architect’s drawings for the work now underway - the same plan the crews are building to.
The entrance
The central walkway
Around the pool
The dog park
Conceptual design - final details may change.
In your apartment
Features vary by apartment - our leasing team can confirm what is in the home you are considering.
1 Gig internet from Xfinity
Xfinity 1 Gig internet service is provided at the community. Ask our leasing team what is included with your home.
Pets and parking
The practical details, in plain terms.
PETS WELCOME
Pet friendly, and building a yard to prove it.
Your four-legged family is welcome here. We accept up to two pets per home, cats and dogs. A 100 pound weight limit applies and some breeds are restricted - our leasing team will walk you through the full pet policy.
Two pets per home
Cats and dogs both welcome.
100 lb weight limit
Breed restrictions apply - ask us.
A dog park is coming
A fenced dog park with double gates is part of the landscape work now underway.
See the amenities for yourself.
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7303 Montgomery Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
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