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 tomentosumSnow-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 arbutifoliaThis 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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Blazing star, gayfeather
Liatrus spicataThis 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 splendensThis 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™ PrimroseThis 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.