Moisture - Page 7 of 166 - Fine Gardening
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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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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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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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Blue Atlas cedar
Cedrus atlantica f. glaucaThis stunning evergreen conifer can be a very large specimen tree (to over 100 feet) in the landscape.
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Esparto grass
Lygeum spartiumSilver-blue, rushlike foliage is graced by one of the most distinctive flowers of all grasses: the inflorescence looks like little origami birds.
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Silver leaf
Leucophyllum frutescensSilver leaf is a flowering evergreen shrub with arching branches and woolly, silvery gray leaves.
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English lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
English lavender has silvery gray, aromatic foliage topped in summer with lavender-blue to dark purple flowers on long stems.
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Common rue
Ruta graveolensRue is an evergreen shrub with an upright, rounded form and cool, ferny blue-green foliage.
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Eastern prickly pear cactus
Opuntia compressaPrickly pear cactus is a clump-forming and semi-prostrate plant.