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  • Plant Guide

    Desert mallow

    Sphaeralcea ambigua

    This shrubby, woolly perennial is native to the warmest, dry regions of the US and Mexico.

  • Plant Guide

    ‘Shades of Orange’ hummingbird mint, ‘Shades of Orange’ hyssop

    Agastache aurantiaca 'Shades of Orange'

    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…

  • Plant Guide

    Apache plume

    Fallugia paradoxa

    A member of the rose family (Rosaceae), Apache plume has single, white, rose-like flowers in a fine-textured shrub up to 5 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

  • Plant Guide

    Desert ruellia

    Ruellia peninsularis

    This southern California native shrub produces a dense mass of small, glossy leaves and purple, petunia-like flowers in late spring and early summer.

  • Plant Guide

    Desert Willow

    Chilopsis linearis

    Desert willow is shrub native to the Southwest U.

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