Southwest Plants
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Plant GuideCorydalis ochroleuca
Corydalis ochroleucaFrom late spring and throughout the summer, creamy flowers cover a delicate mound of filigreed gray-green foliage.
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Plant Guide‘China Blue’ corydalis
Corydalis flexuosa ‘China Blue’This is one of the coveted blue corydalises.
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Plant GuideFlowering 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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Plant Guide
Ground morning glory
Convolvulus mauritanicusGround morning glory is a trailing low grower with a profusion of funnel-shaped lavender flowers from summer to early autumn.
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Plant GuideTaro
Colocasia esculentaA 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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Plant Guide
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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Plant Guide‘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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Plant Guide‘First Choice’ Blue beard
Caryopteris × clandonensis 'First Choice''First Choice' is ideal for a mixed or shrub border.
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Plant GuideSunshine blue bluebeard
Caryopteris incana 'Jason''Jason' has bright yellow-green foliage with rich amethyst blue flowers in late summer and fall.
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Plant GuideTrumpet creeper
Campsis radicans
Trumpet creeper is a vigorous climber with clusters of trumpet-shaped orange to red flowers from late summer to autumn.
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