Re: xeric plants for the southwest

Hi Pam-  Thanks for your generous offer of the cutting, and if it was 10 
years ago, I'd take up that offer.  But- too easy to forget to baby a 
cutting along for her to manage at this point.  I did go to High Country 
Gardens and got a nice assortment of things, lavendar, agastache, 
salvia, and a couple of others that I hope she'll enjoy.
Theresa

Pam Evans wrote:

>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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