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High Country Gardens Planting Guides

Thank you for buying your plants from High Country Gardens! For decades, we’ve been growing and gardening with perennial plants in the challenging high desert climate. Our planting guides feature the best tried-and-true techniques for successfully transplanting and growing our hearty plants. 


GARDENING VIDEOS

Watch and learn from David Salman, Founder of High Country Gardens.

 

Perennial Growing Guides

Bright yellow Chrysothamnus shrub (Rabbitbrush) in bloom

8 Tips For Growing Healthy Shrubs & Trees

claret-cup-cactus-blackchinned-hummingbird

How To Grow Cold Hardy Cacti & Succulents

Asclepias root bundle

How To Care For Dormant Plants

Raspberry Delight Salvia in peak bloom

How To Grow Sage
Salvia

Lavender aungustifolia mass planted

How To Grow Lavender
Lavandula

A hummingbird sips nectar from an agastache flower

How To Grow Hummingbird Mint
Agastache

How To Grow Milkweed & Butterfly Weed
Asclepias

Pallida variegata Bearded Irises in bloom

How To Grow Bearded Iris
Iris germanica

Nepeta lines the sidewalk in front of a beautiful home and perennial garden

How To Grow Catmint
Nepeta

 Fernbush (Chamaebatiaria millefolium

How To Grow Fernbush
Chamaebatiaria

Jacob Cline bright red bee balm (monarda) flowers

How To Grow Bee Balm
Monarda

Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium) in bloom

How To Grow Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium

Coconino County Penstemon in the garden. Photo by Emmis Oure.

How To Grow Beardtongue
Penstemon

Gardeners enjoy growing Pulsatilla (Pasque Flowers) for their fabulous early spring blooms. Rosen Pasque Flower

How To Pasque Flower
Pulsatilla

Lawn & Wildflower Planting Guides

Wildflower meadow in bloom

How To Grow Wildflowers

Lawn Replacement

Lawn Replacement Instructions

Purple flowers of Hyacinth "Miss Saigon"

How To Plant Native Grass Seed Mixes

Fall-Planted Bulb Growing Guides

Saffron flowers in bloom in fall

How To Grow Saffron

Grape Hyacinth flowers paired with a daffodil

How To Grow Grape Hyacinth
Muscari

Purple flowers of Hyacinth "Miss Saigon"

How To Grow Hyacinth

Crocus Flowers

How To Grow Crocus

Spring-Planted Bulb Growing Guides

White Casa Blanca Oriental Lily

How To Grow Asiatic & Oriental Lilies

Red and Orange Callas

How To Grow Calla Lilies

Red Nuit D'ete Cactus Dahlia

How To Grow Dahlias

LIght pink Gladiolus blooms in a perennial garden with Agastache

How To Grow Gladiolus

Cannasol™ Happy Wilma® Canna Lily

How To Grow Cannas

White Foxtail Lilies (Eremerus)

How To Grow Foxtail Lilies
Eremerus

Mexican Shell Flower (Tigridia pavonia)

How To Grow Mexican Shell Flower
Tigridia


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