Re: xeric plants for the southwest

Theresa - the four things that still look great here are the rosemary
shrubs, the Wild Thing salvia - HCG of course, the leatherleaf mahonia (m.
beleai?) and the artemisia 'Powis Castle'.  I can send cuttings from the
latter next month when I prune it if you think she would like that.
Beautiful plant.

On 2/6/06, Bonnie & Bill Morgan <wmorgan972@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> I highly recommend High Country Gardens!  Because of our dry summers (just
> when the heat is on) I like to put in a number of xeroscopic plants and
> they
> have a good variety.
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> Of Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: 'gardenchat@hort.net'
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] xeric plants for the southwest
>
> What kind of plants are you looking for? Flowering, foliage, spiky stuff,
> or
> trees?
> I like these 3 companies for xeric plants - Las Pilitas
> (www.laspilitas.com), Yucca Do (www.yuccado.com), and High Country Gardens
> (www.highcountrygardens.com).  There's a company called Native American
> Seed
> (www.seedsource.com) which looks more like native Texas seed to me, you
> might look at their site.
> There are a lot of salvias that insist on practically no water in summer,
> tricky if the climate suddenly gets wetter. And I have a number of
> penstemons quite happy with only 3 or 4 waterings all summer. Some of my
> penstemons, and salvias plus gaillardia, lavenders, santolina, cistus, and
> rosemary seem to keep plugging along whether they get regular water or
> not.
> Desert willow (chilopsis) is a nice xeric tree, not quite so deserty
> looking
> as palo verde. I haven't had luck with agastaches yet although I'm going
> to
> keep trying. I hear centranthus is a nice xeric too, although I gather it
> spreads like anything if it's happy, so I've not tried it. Speaking of
> spreading, perovskia is doing great in my dry garden, I'll be digging out
> its offspring in a month or so. Junipers make evergreen shrubs and adapt
> to
> drought pretty well.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> Of Theresa
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 10:57 AM
> To: GardenChat
> Subject: [CHAT] xeric plants for the southwest
>
> Hi all-
>
> I'm in the process of birthday shopping for my mom and would like some
> recommendations from the dry/hot climate members of this group.  What have
> you had success growing (and keeping alive) through drought
> conditions?  My
> mom is in Austin TX and they've had very little water (and she can't seem
> to
> adapt to changing her watering patterns).  Soooo- trying to find something
> garden-tested that might survive.
> Theresa
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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