Is there anywhere you can plant Carolina Laurel? It's native everywhere in the Southeast. It needs no water. In fact, it's a little invasive where there IS irrigation.
It'll flower after two years, and grow 20-25 ft high in 4 years into a multi-trunked tree-shrub.
It's covered with flowers just after red maple. Absolutely dependable. Birds eat its berries, and it self-sows. Little disease on leaves. Perfect for farmland.
We get a massive flow from it. That's the flow that causes swarms right now. I picked up swarms on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday this week. One was mine, where I missed finding QCs. But I caught the swarm, and moved it 5 miles.