The invention belongs to a highway 
greening cultivation technology and in particular to a 
greening planting technology for an expressway in the 
arid area of desert. The technology is characterized by comprising the following steps: selecting corresponding arbor, 
shrub and grass according to the local 
topography, 
landform, climate characteristics, 
vegetation condition and common nursery stock varieties, and performing planting time selection, planting preparation, planting of the arbor, 
shrub and grass, 
vegetation maintenance, daily 
nursing and the like, wherein the arbor is selected from one or several of poplar, Saliz matsudana or pinus sylvestris; the 
shrub is selected from two or more of 
Amorpha fruticosa, Sabina vulgaris, 
caragana microphylla and hedysarum scoparium; and the grass is selected from one or several of 
medicago sativa, 
Astragalus adsurgens and 
Artemisia songarica Schrenk. According to the invention, the time from nursery stock planting to large-scale 
greening is basically consistent with the time from highway construction to operation, and the construction period is relatively reasonable; the selected nursery stock is common nursery stock which has sufficient supply source, is drought-resistant, easily survives and grows quickly; and the 
purchase cost and maintenance cost are low.