Southwest Plants

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    Carnation

    Dianthus 'Neon Star'

    This hybrid has a compact, mounding habit, with silvery-blue foliage and fluorescent pink toothed flowers, which continue blooming with deadheading.

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    Corydalis ochroleuca

    Corydalis ochroleuca

    From late spring and throughout the summer, creamy flowers cover a delicate mound of filigreed gray-green foliage.

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    ‘China Blue’ corydalis

    Corydalis flexuosa ‘China Blue’

    This is one of the coveted blue corydalises.

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    Flowering dogwood

    Cornus florida

    This native flowering tree is best known for its early spring blossoms, which are actually yellowish green flowers clustered in the center of four showy, white to pink bracts 1-1/2…

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    Ground morning glory

    Convolvulus mauritanicus

    Ground morning glory is a trailing low grower with a profusion of funnel-shaped lavender flowers from summer to early autumn.

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    Taro

    Colocasia esculenta

    A large, showy, marginal aquatic plant with heart-shaped, dark green leaves, taro can reach 5 feet tall and is often grown as a summer annual.

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    Mexican orange blossom

    Choisya ternata 'Sundance'

    'Sundance' Mexican orange blossom is an evergreen, compact shrub with white, fragrant flowers borne in late spring, and again in late summer and autumn.

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    ‘Forest Pansy’ Eastern redbud

    Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

    In early spring, 'Forest Pansy' awakens with a long-lasting profusion of bright purplish-pink blooms borne in clusters, before the leaves, along smooth gray branches.

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    ‘First Choice’ Blue beard

    Caryopteris × clandonensis 'First Choice'

    'First Choice' is ideal for a mixed or shrub border.

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    Sunshine blue bluebeard

    Caryopteris incana 'Jason'

    'Jason' has bright yellow-green foliage with rich amethyst blue flowers in late summer and fall.