Waterwise Plants
Waterwise Plants
Our waterwise plants are selected for their colorful flowers, interesting foliage, durable garden performance, and habitat friendly nature. Chief Horticulturist David Salman's commitment to cultivating a beautiful palette of waterwise plants has redefined xeriscaping. Beyond the dazzling garden designs, our xeric plants contribute to a robust ecosystem where people, plants, and wildlife thrive. See Water Saving Gardening Tips.
To choose the best plants for your garden, use our filters at left.
To choose the best plants for your garden, use our filters below.
Waterwise Plants
Our waterwise plants are selected for their colorful flowers, interesting foliage, durable garden performance, and habitat friendly nature. Chief Horticulturist David Salman's commitment to cultivating a beautiful palette of waterwise plants has redefined xeriscaping. Beyond the dazzling garden designs, our xeric plants contribute to a robust ecosystem where people, plants, and wildlife thrive. See Water Saving Gardening Tips.
To choose the best plants for your garden, use our filters at left.
To choose the best plants for your garden, use our filters below.
‚Lemon Fizz‚ Santolina (Santolina virens) has fine, almost mossy-looking foliage in an eye-catching chartreuse color. The compact mounding foliage is evergreen and produc...
Learn MoreLemon Fizz Santolina Lemon Fizz Lavender Cotton Santolina virens 'Lemon Fizz'$13.99 Sale $9.09Sale Price I Save 35%Per Plant - 5" Deep Pot'Lemon Fizz' Santolina (Santolina virens) has fine, almost mossy-looking foliage in an eye-catching chartreuse color. The compact mounding foliage is evergreen and produces bright yellow button-shaped flowers in summer. It thrives in full, hot sun, but demands a sandy, dry growing site once established. It’s a bit cold-tender and is recommended as a container-grown plant for use around the patio when planted away from the West Coast.Leymus salinus ‚Salane‚ (Basin Junior Wildrye) is a native perennial grass that forms a dense clump of narrow, slivery-green foliage. Subtle pale-yellow seeds emerge abov...
Learn MoreBasin Junior Wildrye Basin Junior Wildrye Leymus salinus 'Salane'$14.99 Sale $9.74Sale Price I Save 35%Per Plant - 5" Deep PotLeymus salinus 'Salane' (Basin Junior Wildrye) is a native perennial grass that forms a dense clump of narrow, slivery-green foliage. Subtle pale-yellow seeds emerge above the foliage on tall, thin spikes and mature to a sandy hue. This drought-tolerant Western native grass and thrives in hot, dry, rocky sites and high elevations.Red Velvet is one of the best with it deep rose-red, flat-topped flower heads that hold their color. Deep green, fine textured foliage, this yarrow is sure to attract butterflies whe...
Learn MoreRed Velvet Yarrow 'Red Velvet' Yarrow Achillea millefolium 'Red Velvet'As low as $12.99 Sale $8.44Per Plant - 5" Deep PotRed Velvet is one of the best with it deep rose-red, flat-topped flower heads that hold their color. Deep green, fine textured foliage, this yarrow is sure to attract butterflies wherever it's planted. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).Poa secunda v. juncifolia (Mini Oat Grass) is a Western native grass with blue-green foliage. Seeds emerge on stiff foliage and open up to create pale feathery fronds. In summer dry ...
Learn MoreMini Oat Grass (Poa) Mini Oat Grass Poa secunda v. juncifolia$13.99 Sale $9.09Sale Price I Save 35%Per Plant - 5" Deep PotPoa secunda v. juncifolia (Mini Oat Grass) is a Western native grass with blue-green foliage. Seeds emerge on stiff foliage and open up to create pale feathery fronds. In summer dry season, grass matures to a warm gold hue. A highly resilient and drought-resistant grass that serves as a host plant for many butterflies, its upright habit and seed textures are a beautiful addition to waterwise landscapes, including high elevations.Sedum globosum ‚Old Man‚s Bones‚ (Stonecrop) is an outstanding low-growing sedum with uniquely rounded, chubby leaves held on short spreading stems. Evergreen succ...
Learn MoreOld Man's Bones Sedum 'Old Man's Bones' Sedum Sedum globosum 'Old Man's Bones'As low as $11.99 Sale $7.79Per Plant - 5" Deep PotSedum globosum 'Old Man's Bones' (Stonecrop) is an outstanding low-growing sedum with uniquely rounded, chubby leaves held on short spreading stems. Evergreen succulent foliage often develops a bronze tint in summer and flushes shades of purple, pink, red, and bronze over the winter. Perfect for groundcover, rock gardens, edging pathways, and spilling over the edges of raised beds or containers. It blooms in summer with clusters of small, bright yellow, star-shaped flowers.Koeleria glauca ‚Blue Sprite‚ (Blue Hair Grass) is one of the few low-growing ornamental grasses, making it an attractive option for accents, borders, and mass planting. ...
Learn MoreBlue Sprite Koeleria Blue Sprite Blue Hair Grass Koeleria glauca 'Blue Sprite'$13.99 Sale $9.09Sale Price I Save 35%Per Plant - 5" Deep PotKoeleria glauca 'Blue Sprite' (Blue Hair Grass) is one of the few low-growing ornamental grasses, making it an attractive option for accents, borders, and mass planting. Dense tufts of blue-green leaves form mounds about one foot high, which sit neatly below flower panicles. Flowers emerge glossy green in spring, then mature to silvery seed heads for summer. A non-spreading species that forms low mounds and can be evergreen in mild climates.Echinops bannaticus ‚Star Frost‚ (Globe Thistle) is an eye-popping beauty in frosty white with spherical flowers on sturdy stems. Rising from thistle-like deep green leav...
Learn MoreStar Frost Echinops Star Frost Globe Thistle Echinops bannaticus Star Frost$12.99 Sale $8.44Sale Price I Save 35%Per Plant - 5" Deep PotEchinops bannaticus 'Star Frost' (Globe Thistle) is an eye-popping beauty in frosty white with spherical flowers on sturdy stems. Rising from thistle-like deep green leaves with silvery undersides, ‘Star Frost’ will bloom from mid-summer to early fall. Plant them in a sweep for dramatic effect. At 3-4 feet tall they are just right for a perennial bed, cutting garden, or pollinator garden - bees and butterflies love them too.
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- Purple Ozark Penstemon
- New Mexico Century Plant (Agave)
- Mulberry Flambe Purple Salvia
- Sunray Coreopsis
- Greek Yarrow
- Parry's Century Plant (Agave)
- Iron Butterfly Ironweed (Vernonia)
- Pfitzer Red Hot Poker Mix
- Fire Dance Red Hot Poker
- Judith's Favorite Fame Flower (Phemeranthus)
- Helen von Stein Lamb's Ear - 5" Pot
- Llano Indian Grass
- Golden Fleece Goldenrod (Solidago)
- Golden Torch Goldenrod (Wichita Mountains Solidago)
- Cold Hardy Pink Texas Salvia
- Deep Blue Arizona Salvia
- Ultra Violet Salvia
- Raspberry Delight® Salvia
- Burgundy Seduction Salvia
- Caradonna Salvia
- Blue Hill Salvia
- Maraschino Salvia
- Creeping Shrubby Ice Plant (Ruschia)
- Arp Rosemary
- Kashmir False Sage (Phlomis)
- Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea)
- Lacey Blue Russian Sage
- Blue Lips Penstemon
- Pike's Peak Purple Penstemon
- Red Rocks Penstemon
- Blue Mist Penstemon
- Rocky Mountain Penstemon
- Husker Red Penstemon
- Elfin Pink Penstemon
- Beauty of Livermere Oriental Poppy
- Cascading Hopflower Oregano
- Showy Pink Evening Primrose
- Peter's Purple Bee Balm
- Wild Bergamot (Wichita Mountains Form)
- Wild Four O'Clock (Mirabilis)
- Appar Blue Flax (Linum)
- Rough Blazing Star (Liatris)
- Dotted Blazing Star (Liatris)
- Purple Ribbon Spanish Lavender - 5" Pot
- Thrift-Leaf Perky Sue (Hymenoxys)
- Santa Fe Maximilian's Sunflower (Helianthus)
- Arizona Red Shades Gaillardia
- Arizona Sun Gaillardia
- Happy Boy New Mexico Privet
- Berry Girl New Mexico Privet
- Apache Plume (Fallugia)
- Blue Glow Echinops
- Echinacea purpurea - 5" Pot
- Firewitch Dianthus
- Sterntaler Coreopsis
- Jethro Tull Coreopsis
- First Choice Caryopteris
- Mora County Chocolate Flower Mix (Berlandiera)
- Susanna Mitchell Marguerite Daisy (Anthemis)
- Miniature Century Plant (Agave)
- Blue Blazes Agastache
- Agastache neomexicana
- Fragrant Persian Stonecress (Aethionema)
- Coronation Gold Yarrow
- Three-Leaf Sumac (Rhus)
- Native Midwest Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Native Pacific Northwest Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Autumn Magic Pollinator Collection
- Shady Oasis Container Garden
- Hummingbird Container Garden
- Container Garden For Full Sun
- Monarch Magic Collection
- Privacy Shrub Collection For The West
- My Soil Is Like A Brick Collection
- Some Like It Hot Collection
- Ice Plant Collection (Delosperma)
- Salvia Collection
- Gaillardia Collection (Blanket Flower)
- Summer Showstopper Pre-Planned Garden
- Habitat Hero Birdwatcher Pre-Planned Garden
- Agastache Collection
- Native Intermountain West Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Native Southwest Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Drought Resistant Groundcover Collection
- Western Native Penstemon Collection
- August Afternoons Pre-Planned Garden
- Sky Island Orange Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria)
- Texas Sotol (Dasylirion)
- Colorado Gold® Gazania
- Terracotta Yarrow
- New Vintage™ Violet Yarrow
- La Plata Silver Leaf Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus)
- Woody's Peach Surprise Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria)
- Voodoo Sedum
- Hill's Hardy Rosemary
- Spanish Peaks® Foxglove
- Dwarf Red Hot Poker
- Engelmann's Daisy (Engelmannia)
- Texas Blazing Star (Liatris)
- Pink Valerian (Centranthus)
- White Valerian (Centranthus)
- Havard's Century Plant (Agave)
- Hardy Living Stone (Aloinopsis)
- Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium)
- Northfork Coral Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria)
- Intermountain Beauty Gaura
- Lemon Max Maximilian's Sunflower (Helianthus)
- Silver Spring Blooming Butterfly Bush (Buddleia)
- Little Night Salvia - 5" Pot
- October Daphne Sedum
- Compact Creeping Germander (Teucrium)
- Lyrical™ Rose Salvia
- Yellow Flowering Texas Yucca (Hesperaloe)
- Valley Lavender Plains Verbena
- Desert Snow Mock Orange (Philadelphus)
- Hot Lips Salvia
- Mesa™ Peach Gaillardia
- Tufted Ice Plant
- Bushy Bulbine
- Green's Beargrass (Nolina)
- Gold On Blue Prairie Zinnia
- Poncha Pass Red Sulphur Buckwheat
- Johnson's Blue Geranium
- Lucretia Hamilton Desert Willow
- Hardy Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis)
- Scarlet Tanager Gazania
- Amber Wheels Gaillardia
- Raydon's Favorite Aromatic Aster
- Bluebird Smooth Aster
- Blue Glitter Sea Holly (Eryngium)
- Red Edged Pig's Ear (Cotyledon)
- Moonshine Yarrow
- Apricot Sprite Agastache
- Ava Agastache
- Agastache cana
- Desert Solstice Agastache
- Windwalker Big Bluestem Grass
- Wallowa Mountains Sandwort (Arenaria)
- Powis Castle Artemisia
- Seafoam Artemisia
- Butterfly Weed (Clay Form)
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
- Red Valerian (Centranthus)
- Hardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma)
- Moonbeam Coreopsis
- Dwarf Pampas Grass
- Creeping Gold Buttons (Cotula)
- Alan's Apricot Ice Plant
- Blut Ice Plant
- Fire Spinner® Ice Plant
- Lavender Ice Ice Plant
- Hardy Yellow Ice Plant
- Red Mountain® Flame Ice Plant
- Jumbo Waterwise Pre-Planned Garden
- Jumbo Waterwise Pre-Planned Garden For The West Coast
- Long Blooming Lavender Collection
- Hummingbird Attracting Collection For The West
- Prairie Smoke (Geum)
- Blue Oat Grass
- Coral Glow Texas Yucca (Hesperaloe)
- Straight Up Red Texas Yucca (Hesperaloe)
- Blue Cushion English Lavender
- Hidcote Blue English Lavender
- Thumbelina Leigh Dwarf English Lavender
- Vera English Lavender
- Grosso French Lavender
- Silver Edged Horehound (Marrubium)
- Blackfoot Daisy (Melampodium)
- Pink Flamingo Muhly Grass
- Undaunted® Ruby Muhly Grass
- Silky Thread Grass
- Select Blue Nepeta
- Shimmer Evening Primrose
- Shenandoah Switch Grass
- Paronychia (Silver Nailwort)
- Davidson's Penstemon
- Firecracker Penstemon Richfield Strain
- Palmer's Penstemon
- Compact Pineleaf Penstemon
- Luminous Pineleaf Penstemon
- Yellow Pineleaf Penstemon
- Pawnee Buttes® Sand Cherry (Prunus)
- Gray Headed Prairie Coneflower
- Crandall's Clove Scented Currant (Ribes)
- Prairie Salvia
- May Night Salvia
- Max Frei Saponaria
- Blaze Little Bluestem Grass
- Prairie Blues Little Bluestem Grass
- Standing Ovation Little Bluestem Grass
- Munro's Globe Mallow (Sphaeralcea)
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Windbreaker Giant Sacaton Grass
- Pink Cotton Lamb's Ear
- Dwarf Pink Lamb's Ear
- Partridge Feather (Tanacetum)
- Woolly Thyme
- Juniper Leaf Thyme
- Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme
- Pink Creeping Thyme
- Reiter Creeping Thyme
- Thyme-Leaf Veronica
- Blue Woolly Veronica
- Snowmass® Veronica
- Big Leaf Vinca
- Soft Colors Inferno Strip Pre-Planned Garden
- Deer & Rabbit Resistant Collection For The East & Midwest
- Drought Resistant Collection For The West
- Butterfly & Bee-Friendly Collection For The West