Drought Resistant Plants
Keep your garden thriving with drought-resistant plants that offer beauty with less water. Ideal for low-maintenance landscapes and eco-friendly gardening.
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Also known as English Ivy, the consummate vine, this evergreen climber or dense groundcover with beautiful deep green foliage will cover walls, trees and fences in short order; very adaptable and vigorous, one of the hardier varieties but protect from sun and wind in winter
- Mature Height: 8 inches
- Mature Width: 20 feet
- Sunlight: Sun, Part Sun, Shade
- Soil Conditions: Moist (Typical)
Beauty, functionality and ease of growth combine to make this ornamental grass a best-seller! Tall stems of wheat-like flowers rise in June above the clump of leaves and remain attractive well into the winter. Upright form makes it ideal for narrow spaces, but it also looks terrific when planted in mass. Mingles well with just about anything including Butterfly Bush (Buddleia), Blue Mist Spirea (Caryopteris), Coneflower (Echinacea), Cranesbill (Geranium), Daylily (Hemerocallis), and Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum). Cut back old foliage to a few inches in early spring.
Hidcote Lavender has masses of beautiful spikes of fragrant purple flowers rising above the foliage from early to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has attractive grayish green evergreen foliage. The fragrant needles are highly ornamental and turn coppery-bronze in the fall, which persists throughout the winter.
Blooming for a good part of the summer the prolific, the deep yellow flowers of Zagreb are a cheerful addition to sunny gardens or walkways. Fine-textured, thread-like leaves form a compact, bushy mound that complements other coarser leaved plants. Plant 2 or 3 together for best effect and shear after flowering to get an autumn flush of bloom.
This tough yet pretty plant is great for beginners—just give it a sunny location and soil that drains well. Ferny, grayish foliage is topped by clusters of 2†diameter, flat-topped flowers in a sulfur-yellow color in June and July—the color combining well with pinks and blues such as Coneflower (Echinacea) and Salvia. The flowers are super for cutting and drying. Another big plus is that butterflies will flock to this plant, but the deer won't!
This fabulous variety is a fragrant, robust lavender that, due to its short size and tightly held blooms, makes a great low hedge; it can also be massed in the garden; blooms profusely in spring and is then a fragrant gray green shrub
Tough and handsome native ornamental grass is especially useful in hot, dry areas. Narrow, fine-textured leaves form an arching, rounded mound, the leaves turning gold brushed with orange in fall, then tan in winter. Airy pinkish brown flowers rise well above the foliage in late summer, eventually dropping their mature seeds in late fall. Some say the flowers smell like popcorn with a hint of cilantro! Best in not-too-rich, sharply draining soil. Pairs well with Aster, Butterfly Weed (Asclepias) and Coneflower (Echinacea).
Little Spire Russian Sage features delicate spikes of lavender flowers rising above the foliage from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tiny fragrant narrow leaves emerge silver in spring, turning grayish green in color throughout the season.
Snow Hill Sage has masses of beautiful spikes of white flowers rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its fragrant narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the season.
Hi Ho Silver Thyme is a perennial herb that is typically grown for its edible qualities, although it does have ornamental merits as well. The tiny fragrant oval grayish green leaves with distinctive creamy white edges and tinges of silver can be harvested at any time in the season. The leaves have a mild taste and a pleasant fragrance.
The leaves are most often used in the following ways:
A ground-hugging mound that is truly mop-like, with stringy leaves that color best in full sun. A superior accent to add contrast to dwarf green conifer plantings. Tailored to rock gardens and slope plantings as well as Asian garden schemes.
Moonbeam Tickseed is smothered in stunning buttery yellow daisy flowers with lemon yellow eyes at the ends of the stems from mid to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its ferny leaves remain emerald green in color throughout the season.
Mature Height: 18 - 24 inches
Mature Width: 18 - 24 inches.
Sunlight: Sun, Part Sun
Soil Conditions: Well-drained soil
Big Bluestem, a native grass of the Midwestern prairie, has been rediscovered as a useful and beautiful landscape plant. Drought tolerant and easy to maintain, it is a natural choice for prairie, meadow and naturalistic plantings. But, Andropogon gerardii is also great as a background or accent in mixed plantings. Big Bluestem is especially interesting when in bloom - its curiously shaped seed heads resemble upside-down turkey feet.
An exceptional new variety of this popular shade-loving evergreen groundcover with soft blue flowers held over stunning white-variegated dark green foliage that colors the garden; does well in sun or deep shade, quickly forms a dense mat
A spectacular and dependable groundcover for sunny locations, extremely low growing and mat-forming, spreads almost indefinitely, very adaptable; superb choice for a low groundcover when used in mass, considered one of the best by designers
Firefly Peach Sky Yarrow features showy peach flat-top flowers with orange overtones at the ends of the stems from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tomentose ferny leaves remain green in color throughout the season.
Pale yellow buds open to creamy vanilla pea-flowers, that rise from a compact clump of gray-green foliage in late spring to early summer; use this plant for its outstanding display of vertical flowers as an accent in the garden or borders
Lovely rose flowers with good color retention, and no gap between flowers and foliage; an attractive container plant; excellent for xeriscaping and hot, sunny, dry locations in the garden; performs well on hot sites
Blue Point Juniper is a dwarf conifer which is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has attractive bluish-green evergreen foliage. The scale-like sprays of foliage are highly ornamental and remain bluish-green throughout the winter. It produces powder blue berries from late spring to late winter.
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