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This is my front yard. I'm an organic gardener. And am trying to chose things to conserve my water needs. This was about two weeks ago.

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rivers1202
18 years ago
Beautiful! Are those 'Ruby Star' coneflowers? I have some growing in my xeric bed and I love them.
Since you are looking for water-saving plants, I'll list a few that I have growing in my xeric bed. The bed is all the way out at the end of our driveway. My hose doesn't even reach that far, and there's no way I'm lugging watering cans back and forth. These plants have required no extra watering from me, except when initially getting them established.

-'Silver Mound' Artemisia

- Sedum....lots of it. I have Dragon's Blood, Tri-color, Blue Spruce, Autumn Fire, Autumn Joy, and another I can't recall the name of. I love them.

- Lantana (gonna have to cut it back soon. It's taking over the bed! And I never water it.)

- Russian Sage

- Lavender...3 different varieties.

- Blue Fescue

- Lavender Cotton (aka, Santolina)

- Portulaca

- Dwarf Andorra Juniper

- 'Old Gold' Juniper

And that's just a partial list. A bonus is that deer don't find too many of these plants palatable unless they're starving. Have fun!
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The retiring of this thread will be a siginificant loss to the culture of the GW Kitchen Forum, in my opinion. It orginated from a community perception of the need to organize and preserve valuable shared knowledge about kitchen renos. Buehl stepped up and organized - and then faithfully maintained the thread over its many incarnations. And all of us watched out for it and threw in the needed bumps to keep it visible on the front page. We often referred newbies to it, confident it would be there for them, as it had been for many of us when we started out. This thread perfectly matched the down-to-earth, problem-solving atmosphere of the KF in a way that having most of the same content parked up in a static thread by the management will not. I will miss it. Though I can imagine Buehl will be glad of having it off her shoulders and out of her care. Thank you (again) Buehl! Liriodendron
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