Waterwise Plants

Waterwise Plants
Our waterwise plants (drought resistant, xeric plants) are selected for their colorful flowers, interesting foliage, durable low-care garden performance, and habitat friendly nature. Note: All perennials will need supplemental irrigation to get established. Learn more: Water Saving Gardening Tips.
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Hardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) is one of the most versatile groundcovers for cold climates growing in both sun and shade and most soil types. Plumbago blooms in late su...
Learn MoreHardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma) Hardy Plumbago, Leadwort Ceratostigma plumbaginoidesAs low as $8.79Per Plant - 2.5" PotHardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) is one of the most versatile groundcovers for cold climates growing in both sun and shade and most soil types. Plumbago blooms in late summer with deep blue flowers followed by the foliage that turns burgundy red in fall.Learn MoreBig Leaf Variegated Periwinkle (Vinca major variegata) is large-leafed evergreen, that grows equally well in full sun or deep shade. The quarter-sized purple flowers appear in late s...
Learn MoreBig Leaf Vinca Big Leaf Periwinkle Vinca major variegataAs low as $8.99Per Plant - 2.5" PotBig Leaf Variegated Periwinkle (Vinca major variegata) is large-leafed evergreen, that grows equally well in full sun or deep shade. The quarter-sized purple flowers appear in late spring. Excellent for sloped areas. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric). 8" x 36" wide.Learn More'Shell Pink Improved' Lamium (Lamium maculatum) is is a tough and long-lived groundcover with lovely with heart-shaped leaves dashed with a silver streak. Interesting foliage is topp...
Learn MoreShell Pink Improved Lamium Shell Pink Improved Spotted Dead Nettle Lamium maculatum Shell Pink Improved$7.99Per Plant - 2.5" Pot'Shell Pink Improved' Lamium (Lamium maculatum) is is a tough and long-lived groundcover with lovely with heart-shaped leaves dashed with a silver streak. Interesting foliage is topped by soft pink blossoms from mid-spring to frost. It’s a beautiful groundcover, container plant, or lawn alternative to brighten part-to-full shade areas. A new form found in HCG Chief Horticulturist David Salman's Santa Fe greenhouse.Learn MoreTeucrium chamaedrys Prostratum is tough, pretty and long-lived. Its glossy green leaves and early summer display of deep pink flowers, Creeping Germander is not fussy about its soil,...
Learn MoreCompact Creeping Germander (Teucrium) Compact Creeping Germander Teucrium chamaedrys Prostratum$8.99Per Plant - 2.5" PotTeucrium chamaedrys Prostratum is tough, pretty and long-lived. Its glossy green leaves and early summer display of deep pink flowers, Creeping Germander is not fussy about its soil, and grows equally well in sun or shade. Tolerating light to moderate foot traffic, it's a low-care groundcover. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric). 6-18" tall x 18" wide.Learn MoreA stunning early spring-blooming shrub with pendulous clusters of pink flowers, 'Claremont' Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum) is an essential nectar source for bees and migrating ...
Learn MoreClaremont Flowering Currant (Ribes) Claremont Flowering Currant Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum Claremont$12.99Per Plant - 5" Deep PotA stunning early spring-blooming shrub with pendulous clusters of pink flowers, 'Claremont' Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum) is an essential nectar source for bees and migrating hummingbirds. In fall, foliage shifts to a warm apricot hue. Also known as Winter Currant, this California native displays edible inky black berries that attract birds. This fragrant, showy shrub is a great choice for small yards and patio gardens.Learn MoreKashmir Sage is an amazingly beautiful plant with showy spires of bright lavender-pink flowers. The huge leaves and stately flower spikes give the perennial great architectural value...
Learn MoreKashmir False Sage (Phlomis) Kashmir False Sage Phlomis cashmeriana$10.99Per Plant - 5" Deep PotKashmir Sage is an amazingly beautiful plant with showy spires of bright lavender-pink flowers. The huge leaves and stately flower spikes give the perennial great architectural value in the waterwise landscape. A 2004 Plant Select winner. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).Learn MoreExclusive. Salvia arizonica ‘Deep Blue’ (Deep Blue Arizona Sage) is a great native plant for planting in the shade, blooming all summer with numerous small, deep blue flowers ov...
Learn MoreDeep Blue Arizona Salvia Deep Blue Arizona Sage Salvia arizonica Deep Blue$9.99 Sale $7.99Sale Price I Save 20%Per Plant - 5" Deep PotExclusive. Salvia arizonica ‘Deep Blue’ (Deep Blue Arizona Sage) is a great native plant for planting in the shade, blooming all summer with numerous small, deep blue flowers over rabbit and deer resistant foliage. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).Learn More
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- Jurassic Park Bearded Iris
- New Mexico Century Plant (Agave)
- Parry's Century Plant (Agave)
- Golden Eye Prairie Zinnia
- Hardy Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria)
- Annie's Perennial Verbena
- Llano Indian Grass
- Alkali Sacaton Grass
- West Texas Grass Salvia
- Summer Skies Texas Grass Salvia
- Sensation Rose Dwarf Pink Salvia
- Gwen's Buffalo Clove-Scented Currant (Ribes)
- Lemhi Purple Creeping Phlox
- Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea)
- Tall Orange Pineleaf Penstemon Mix
- Northwind Upright Switchgrass
- Spanish Blue Flax (Linum)
- Dotted Blazing Star (Liatris)
- Blue Haze Euphorbia
- Alcalde Cold Hardy Rosemary
- Buena Vista English Lavender
- Rockstar Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Western Sundancer Daisy (Hymenoxys)
- Silver Curry Bush (Helichrysum)
- Mesa Wine Rock Rose (Helianthemum)
- Hantamberg Orange Gazania
- Butterscotch Baby Gazania
- Lion's Spore (Euphorbia)
- Prolific Sulphur Buckwheat
- Kew Broom (Cytisus)
- Jethro Tull Coreopsis
- Yellow Twig Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus)
- Dwarf Sundrops (Calylophus)
- Spring Blooming Butterfly Bush (Buddleia)
- Blue False Indigo (Baptisia)
- Dwarf Rock Cress (Aubrieta)
- Jones' Bluestar (Amsonia)
- Blue Twister Corkscrew Allium
- Purple Haze Agastache
- Acapulco® Orange Agastache
- Compact Joshua Tree (Yucca)
- Sedum middendorfianum
- Blue Flame Giant Purple Salvia
- Platinum® Dwarf Silver Leaf Salvia
- Yellow Prairie Coneflower
- Sunset Crater Penstemon
- Native Pacific Northwest Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Autumn Magic Pollinator Collection
- Cold Hardy Succulent Collection
- Monarch Magic Collection
- Privacy Shrub Collection For The East & Midwest
- Privacy Shrub Collection For The West
- My Soil Is Like A Beach Collection
- Salvia Collection II
- Native Wildscape Collection
- Native Intermountain West Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Native Southwest Songbird Pre-Planned Garden
- Drought Resistant Groundcover Collection
- Gopher & Rabbit Resistant Collection
- Salt-Tolerant Ornamental Grass Collection
- August Afternoons Pre-Planned Garden
- Millennium Sunrise Bearded Iris
- Recurring Delight Bearded Iris
- Social Event Bearded Iris
- Paul Black Bearded Iris
- Gold Variegated Sweet Iris
- Merchant Marine Bearded Iris
- Mango Entree Bearded Iris
- Imperial Reign Bearded Iris
- Amarillo Frills Bearded Iris
- Tumalo Sunset Bearded Iris
- Ziggy Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Immortality Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Dynamite Bearded Iris
- Pure As Gold Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Sheer Ecstasy Bearded Iris
- Stellar Lights Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Ragtop Day Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Final Episode Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Sugar Blues Reblooming Bearded Iris
- Batik Bearded Iris
- Savanna Sunset Bearded Iris
- Beargrass (Nolina)
- Boulder Mountain Pussy Toes (Antenaria)
- Pineleaf Penstemon
- Firecracker Penstemon
- Gentle Giant Sulphur Buckwheat
- White Prairie Clover (Dalea)
- Prairie Phlox
- Solid Gold Salvia
- Purple Chip Salvia
- Uvatung Broadleaf Penstemon
- Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus)
- Anouk Spanish Lavender
- Burning Hearts False Sunflower (Heliopsis)
- Agastache foeniculum
- Munstead English Lavender
- Horse Crippler Cactus (Echinocactus)
- Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus)
- Sea Urchin Cactus (Coryphantha)
- Peach Springs Century Plant (Agave)
- Shin Dagger Century Plant (Agave)
- White Sands Giant Claret Cup Cactus (Echinocereus)
- Lee's Spiny Star Cactus (Escobaria)
- Cobweb Spiderwort (Tradescantia)
- Common Sotol (Dasylirion)
- Texas Blazing Star (Liatris)
- Early Sunrise Coreopsis
- Provence French Lavender
- Long Spined Utah Century Plant (Agave)
- Kaibab Plateau Century Plant (Agave)
- Utah Century Plant (Agave)
- Large Flowered Stonecress (Aethionema)
- Silver Frost Lavender
- Snow Flurry Hardy Verbena
- Dwarf Golden Turkish Sage (Phlomis)
- Glenn Cold Hardy Mesemb (Rabiea)
- Pink Cold Hardy Mesemb (Aloinanthus)
- Hardy Living Stone (Aloinopsis)
- Acapulco® Salmon & Pink Agastache
- Dwarf Culinary Oregano
- Pink Rock Rose (Helianthemum)
- Blue Globe Daisy (Globularia)
- Takilma Gold Oregon Sunshine (Eriophyllum)
- Red Buckwheat
- Hidcote Blue Comfrey (Symphytum)
- Carl Sedum
- Lemon Max Maximilian's Sunflower (Helianthus)
- Lauren's Cold Hardy Giant Feather Grass
- Karley Rose Fountain Grass
- Regal Mist® Pink Muhly Grass
- Red Riding Hood Penstemon
- Sonoma Coast Yarrow
- Fremont's Mahonia
- Artemisia filifolia
- Shades of Pink Creeping Phlox
- Profuse Pink False Pennyroyal (Hedeoma)
- Cobweb Hens and Chicks
- Blue Rocket False Indigo (Baptisia)
- Nodding Texas Yucca
- Gold Ball Basket Of Gold (Alyssum)
- Globe Ice Plant (Ruschia)
- Yellow Cold Hardy Mesemb (Aloinopsis)
- 25th Anniversary Cacti Collection
- Superb Coral Penstemon
- John Clayton Honeysuckle Vine
- Mountain Mist Grass
- Pozo Blue Salvia
- Lutsko's Dwarf Spanish Lavender
- Giant Feather Grass
- Mountain Ball Cactus (Pediocactus)
- Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus)
- Dwarf White Lace Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus)
- Fendler's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus)
- Night-Blooming Ice Plant (Stomatium)
- Texas Spiny Star Cactus (Escobaria)
- Schott's Yucca
- New Mexico Spiny Star Cactus (Escobaria)
- Bushy Bulbine
- Lace Aloe
- Red Hedgehog Agave
- Gold On Blue Prairie Zinnia
- Prairie Zinnia
- Silver Ironweed (Vernonia)
- Portuguese Giant Spanish Lavender
- Beardtongue Red Salvia
- Utah Fleabane (Erigeron)
- Blue Boy Dwarf Rosemary
- Los Lunas Blues Little Bluestem Grass
- Pink Texas Yucca (Hesperaloe)
- Dallas Blues Blue Switchgrass
- Lucretia Hamilton Desert Willow
- Scarlet Tanager Gazania
- Black Currant (Ribes)
- Gold Standard Coreopsis
- Alpine Blue Mint Bush (Zizophora)
- Arizona Honeysuckle Vine
- Brown Leaf Ice Plant (Nananthus)
- Golden Flowered Century Plant (Agave)
- Red Edged Pig's Ear (Cotyledon)
- Sutherland Night Blooming Ice Plant (Stomatium)
- Apache Sunset Agastache
- Psychedelic Mesemb (Aloinopsis)
- Windwalker Big Bluestem Grass
- Butterfly Weed (Clay Form)
- Western Gold Butterfly Weed Mix
- Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
- High Plains Yellow Sundrops (Calylophus)
- Tequila Sunrise Coreopsis
- Zagreb Coreopsis
- Mesa Verde® Ice Plant
- Lesotho Pink Ice Plant
- Prairie Smoke (Geum)
- Texas Red Yucca (Hesperaloe)
- Creeping Goldenaster (Heterotheca)
- Sol Dancer Daisy (Hymenoxys)
- Pine Muhly Grass
- Dwarf Silver Evening Primrose
- Carpeting Pincushion Flower (Pterocephalus)
- Crandall's Clove Scented Currant (Ribes)
- Robust Gray Great Basin Salvia
- Thin Man Indian Grass
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Partridge Feather (Tanacetum)
- Pink Germander (Teucrium)
- Woolly Turkish Veronica
- Compact Banana Yucca
- Spanish Dagger Tree Yucca
- Plains Yucca
- Blue Doll House Yucca