Problem Solving Plants

Stylish solutions for any garden challenge, including heat, clay soil, inferno strips, adding privacy, and more.

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  1. Privacy Shrub Collection for the West

    With the Privacy Shrub Collection for the West, you'll easily create a private, backyard oasis with these carefully selected native shrubs. This native hedge will also produce habita...

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    Privacy Shrub Collection For The West Privacy Shrub Collection For The West
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    $94.91 Sale $85.41
    Per Collection of 9
    With the Privacy Shrub Collection for the West, you'll easily create a private, backyard oasis with these carefully selected native shrubs. This native hedge will also produce habitat for songbirds and wildlife and look beautiful in your landscape, with a profusion of blooms and berries.
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  2. My Soil Is Like A Brick Collection

    Our ‘My Soil Is Like A Brick Collection’ features long-blooming, easy-to-grow perennials as the perfect solution for gardens with challenging clay soils. The highly adaptable pla...

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    My Soil Is Like A Brick Collection My Soil Is Like A Brick Collection
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    $73.91 Sale $66.51
    Per Collection of 9
    Our ‘My Soil Is Like A Brick Collection’ features long-blooming, easy-to-grow perennials as the perfect solution for gardens with challenging clay soils. The highly adaptable plants are also an excellent choice for beginning gardeners! Bright pink, sunny yellow, and bold blue flowers bloom from late spring to late summer, with cheerful color and lovely foliage. These well-behaved varieties don’t spread aggressively, so plant several for a full garden bed. Enjoy fragrant blooms that attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. The collection features durable drought tolerant (xeric) and deer-resistant plant varieties for full sun locations. Collection of nine plants.
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  3. Some Like It Hot Collection

    If you have places in your landscape where most flowers seem to fry from the heat, these tough, long blooming perennials will solve the problem. They thrive in hot, sunny locations a...

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    Some Like It Hot Collection Some Like It Hot Collection
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    $78.41 Sale $70.56
    Per Collection of 9
    If you have places in your landscape where most flowers seem to fry from the heat, these tough, long blooming perennials will solve the problem. They thrive in hot, sunny locations and provide flowers over much of the growing season when kept deadheaded. These red, purple and yellow blooms will brighten your yard and withstand the heat. Drought resistant perennial plants (xeric). A collection of nine plants
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  4. Soft Colors Inferno Strip Pre-Planned Garden

    This low-growing Inferno Strip Garden is ideal for hot, sunny, problem areas like those found against garage walls and along driveways and roads. With this garden, you can easily cre...

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    Soft Colors Inferno Strip Pre-Planned Garden Soft Colors Inferno Strip Pre-Planned Garden
    As low as $155.82 Sale $140.23
    Per Garden of 18 Plants
    This low-growing Inferno Strip Garden is ideal for hot, sunny, problem areas like those found against garage walls and along driveways and roads. With this garden, you can easily create a colorful, long blooming, low maintenance flower bed. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric). Designed by Lauren Springer Ogden. Mixed pot sizes.
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Asclepias | Milkweed

Host plant for Monarch caterpillars & butterflies.

Easy to care for & long-blooming.

Pollinators love the nectar-rich blooms.

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Unique Plants

Hard-to-find and unusual plants.

Add beauty and interest to your landscape.

Striking colors and interesting blooms. 

Agastache | Hummingbird Mint

Superb hummingbird plants.

Thrive in hot, sunny conditions.

Fragrant & deer resistant.


Going, Going, Nearly Gone…

Save up to 40% on favorite fall-planted flower bulbs for a burst of spring blooms.

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  1. Muscari aucheri Dark Eyes, Grape Hyacinth

    An outstanding Muscari with fragrant, white edged, deep blue flowers. 'Dark Eyes' is a vigorous naturalizing variety that covers the garden with carpets of gorgeous flowers....

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    Dark Eyes Grape Hyacinth Dark Eyes Grape Hyacinth Muscari aucheri Dark Eyes
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    $11.99 Sale $7.19
    Per Bag of 15
    An outstanding Muscari with fragrant, white edged, deep blue flowers. 'Dark Eyes' is a vigorous naturalizing variety that covers the garden with carpets of gorgeous flowers.
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  2. Showy Persian Onion, Allium rosenbachianum close up

    Allium rosenbachianum are early bloomers in the late-spring parade of globe Allium. Unique and effortlessly elegant, they stand tall at 32-38" with 4" diameter dark-violet globes. Ea...

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    Allium rosenbachianum Rosenbachianum Ornamental Onion Allium rosenbachianum
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    Per Bag of 3
    Allium rosenbachianum are early bloomers in the late-spring parade of globe Allium. Unique and effortlessly elegant, they stand tall at 32-38" with 4" diameter dark-violet globes. Each globe has over 50 starry florets with darker mid-veins and white stamens. They can extend your season of enjoyment by blooming about 2 weeks ahead of the other globe Alliums (Ornamental Onions). Plant with white Mount Everest Alliums for lovely contrasting blooms.
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  3. Pink and Red and Orange and Yellow and Blue and Purple and White Hyacinth Bulbs Easter Joy Mix, Hyacinthus orientalis, Hyacinth Bulbs Easter Joy Mix

    This cheerful spring mix gives gardeners a nice assortment of flower colors....

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    Easter Joy Hyacinth Mix Easter Joy Hyacinth Mix Hyacinthus orientalis Easter Joy Mix
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    Per Bag of 6
    This cheerful spring mix gives gardeners a nice assortment of flower colors.
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  4. Allium ostrowskianum Close Up

    Allium ostrowskianum (Pink Allium) has showy 2" diameter rose-pink flower clusters. A super cold hardy wildflower Allium. Interplant with perennials and groundcovers....

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    Pink Allium Pink Ornamental Onion Allium ostrowskianum
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    $7.99 Sale $4.79
    Per Bag of 30
    Allium ostrowskianum (Pink Allium) has showy 2" diameter rose-pink flower clusters. A super cold hardy wildflower Allium. Interplant with perennials and groundcovers.
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Brighten Winter Days With Indoor Blooms

Save up to 15% on easy-to-grow Amaryllis and Paperwhites. Available in growing kits for thoughtful holiday gifts made easy.

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  1. Athene Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot with gift box

    Bring joyful white blooms indoors to banish the winter blues with our Athene Amaryllis Kit. Athene will produce one to two stems flowering with large, snow-white blooms showing off s...

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    Athene Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot Athene Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot Hippeastrum Athene
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    $16.99 Sale $14.44
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    Bring joyful white blooms indoors to banish the winter blues with our Athene Amaryllis Kit. Athene will produce one to two stems flowering with large, snow-white blooms showing off silky green throats. This kit includes a pot, growing medium, and one amaryllis bulb, packaged with instructions for the perfect readymade gift. (Hippeastrum)
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  2. Evergreen Amaryllis

    Evergreen Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) is an exotic Amaryllis variety with slender, star-shaped flowers that are apple-green in the centers, blending to a lighter yellow-green and cream o...

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    Evergreen Amaryllis Evergreen Amaryllis Hippeastrum Evergreen
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    Evergreen Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) is an exotic Amaryllis variety with slender, star-shaped flowers that are apple-green in the centers, blending to a lighter yellow-green and cream on the outer petal.
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  3. Apple Blossom Amaryllis Gift Kit

    Our gift boxed Apple Blossom Amaryllis Kit will bloom with large white flowers, softly brushed with pink feathering, resembling a spring apple blossom. The kit includes a terracotta-...

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    Apple Blossom Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot Apple Blossom Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot Hippeastrum Apple Blossom
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    Our gift boxed Apple Blossom Amaryllis Kit will bloom with large white flowers, softly brushed with pink feathering, resembling a spring apple blossom. The kit includes a terracotta-colored plastic pot, no-fuss growing medium, jumbo-sized Apple Blossom Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) bulb and detailed instructions for getting easy winter blooms. Amaryllis Kits make a thoughtful gift for everyone on your list. Call for corporate pricing.
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  4. Minerva Amaryllis Plastic Pot Kit

    Gift-Boxed Kit featuring popular Minerva Amaryllis will brighten your winter with blooms in bold red and white. This kit includes terra cotta colored pot, no-fuss growing medium, jum...

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    Minerva Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot Minerva Amaryllis Kit - Plastic Pot Hippeastrum Minerva
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    $16.99 Sale $14.44
    Per Kit
    Gift-Boxed Kit featuring popular Minerva Amaryllis will brighten your winter with blooms in bold red and white. This kit includes terra cotta colored pot, no-fuss growing medium, jumbo-sized bulb and detailed instructions for getting easy winter blooms. Makes a thoughtful gift for everyone on your list. Corporate pricing available. (Hippeastrum)
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Restore & Regenerate With Wildflowers

From patio pots to large meadows, wildflowers provide low-care color all season long while also supporting pollinators, preventing erosion, and naturally enriching your soils. Save up to 10% on problem-solving wildflower seeds through 11/9.

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Trench Planting Spring Blooming Bulbs

Trench planting is a quick, efficient way to plant flower bulbs for hundreds of spring blooms with minimal effort. With just a little time and planning, you’ll have a wonderful spring gift awaiting you. Save up to 40% on spring-blooming (fall-planted) bulbs, while supplies last!


High Country Gardens: Our Story

Pioneers in Sustainable Gardening

At High Country Gardens we offer plants, products and information that support long-term ecological balance and builds and sustains the love of gardening for generations to come. Our mission is to improve the earth one garden at a time.

Eco-Friendly Gardening & Native Plants:

We’ve addressed the growing needs for water conservation and environmentally-friendly gardening practices by developing an incredible selection of waterwise and native plants. Our plants are chosen for their hardiness, beauty and their support of habitat creation.

Unique Plant Varieties:

We have built our reputation by developing and offering unique plant hybrids that you cannot find elsewhere. Many of our varieties have been exclusively developed by our Founder & Chief Horticulturist, David Salman, the 2008 American Horticultural Society’s Great American Gardener award winner.

Drought Resistant Plants:

We are especially known for our xeric plants, that need minimal water and care once established. Xeriscaping, the practice of landscaping with drought-tolerant plants, has spread beyond just the Southwest and many of our low-water perennials will thrive nationwide.

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“HCG is even better than before, and their highly responsive and thorough customer service is the main reason I am a loyal customer! The plants are wonderful, but the people who stand behind them are even more so!”

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