Drought Tolerant - Page 19 of 29 - Fine Gardening

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    Variegated silverberry

    Elaeagnus pungens 'Maculata'

    This evergreen shrub can light up the dark corners of a garden.

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    Snow-in-summer

    Cerastium tomentosum

    Snow-in-summer is great for rock gardens and dry areas, and also works well as a container plant.

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    Apache plume

    Fallugia paradoxa

    A member of the rose family (Rosaceae), Apache plume has single, white, rose-like flowers in a fine-textured shrub up to 5 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

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    ‘Little Red’ oleander

    Nerium oleander ‘Little Red’

    'Little Red' is a dwarf selection of oleander, which is a large evergreen shrub.

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    Toyon, Christmas berry, California holly

    Heteromeles arbutifolia

    This evergreen, California-native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and wide and produces abundant clusters of tiny white flowers in early summer, which attract beneficial insects that help control pests.

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    Desert Willow

    Chilopsis linearis

    Desert willow is shrub native to the Southwest U.

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    Blazing star, gayfeather

    Liatrus spicata

    This hardy herbaceous perennial has grass-like, strappy leaves and 3- to 5-foot-tall spikes of purple-pink flowers in late summer and early fall.

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    Ocotillo

    Fouquieria splendens

    This southwestern native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and sports long, dull, spiny stems that green up and leaf out after a rain, followed by…

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    Crescendo™ Primrose African daisy

    Osteospermum Crescendo™ Primrose

    This African daisy blooms nonstop from early June through October, even in extreme heat.

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    Sulfur flower

    Eriogonum umbellatum

    Wild buckwheats have assumed star roles in drought-tolerant landscapes throughout the West, and none is more useful than sulfur flower.