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Plant GuideAmerican aloe
Agave americanaThis plant has a rosette of broad sword-like, succulent, gray-green leaves.
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Plant Guide‘Just Peachy’ hummingbird mint, ‘Just Peachy’ hyssop
Agastache aurantiaca 'Just Peachy'
A cultivar discovered at High Country Gardens in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this aromatic, water-wise perennial grows to 30 inches tall and 18 inches wide and features fine, mint-scented, gray-green…
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Plant GuideChinese wild ginger
Asarum splendensThere are many species and varieties of wild ginger, but this vigorous, fast-growing, and beautiful species tops my list.
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Plant GuideHairy bergenia
Bergenia cillataThis is the most drought-tolerant bergenia I’ve found and the only one that does well in Texas heat.
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Plant GuideCotoneaster ‘Tom Thumb’
Cotoneaster 'Tom Thumb’This compact, low-growing, and self-rooting deciduous shrub is useful as an underplanting or ground cover.
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Plant Guide
Painted tongues
Salpiglossis sinuata and cvs.Long, narrow leaves grow in rosettes near the ground.
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Plant GuideBlack dalea
Dalea frutescensThis low, mounding, Southwest native shrub up to 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide has feathery foliage that contributes fine texture to a garden.
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Plant GuideGolden barrel cactus
Echinocactus grusoniiGolden barrel cactus has a rounded form that eventually elongates.
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Plant GuideMrs. Robb’s bonnet
Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiaeThis variety has dark, glossy evergreen leaves arranged in tight rosettes, and it produces yellow-green bracts in mid-spring and early summer.
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Plant Guide‘Boulder Blue’ blue fescue
Festuca glauca ‘Boulder Blue’Regarded by some as the bluest blue fescue, this plant forms compact, cascading mounds of foot-tall, intensely blue, narrow leaves that are attractive in all seasons.
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