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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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    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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    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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    Blue Atlas cedar

    Cedrus atlantica f. glauca

    This stunning evergreen conifer can be a very large specimen tree (to over 100 feet) in the landscape.

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    Esparto grass

    Lygeum spartium

    Silver-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 frutescens

    Silver 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 graveolens

    Rue is an evergreen shrub with an upright, rounded form and cool, ferny blue-green foliage.

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    Eastern prickly pear cactus

    Opuntia compressa

    Prickly pear cactus is a clump-forming and semi-prostrate plant.