Southwest Gardening252 Stories
Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Ebenopsis Ebano
The dense canopy of Texas ebony’s foliage adds a welcome touch of dark green to the Southwestern landscape
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Don’t let high winds, dust storms and torrential rainfall catch you or your landscape by surprise
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Heliopsis Helianthoides, a Pollinator Favorite
Plant smooth oxeye in eastern U.S. gardens for its bright, sunny flowers and upright form
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Glandularia Rigida Paints the Ground Purple
Sandpaper verbena's deep purple flowers create a colorful carpet in drought-tolerant gardens
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Cleome Serrulata
Beckon bees and other pollinators in for a drink of nectar from this western U.S. native’s late-summer flowers
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Nolina Microcarpa
Grass-like beargrass with its curlicue tips adds lovely texture to drought-tolerant Southwest gardens
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Thalictrum Dasycarpum Dresses Up Shorelines
Plant tall meadow-rue on central U.S. shorelines and in moist gardens for its frilly cream flowers and blue-green softly lobed foliage
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Gaura Lindheimeri
Delicate, butterfly-shaped flowers ‘float’ above the foliage of this lovely, drought-tolerant perennial
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Russelia Equisetiformis
Cascading foliage mimics the appearance of water, while brightly colored flowers add color from spring through fall
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Cordia Boissieri
Texas wild olive adds beauty to the drought-tolerant garden with its white blossoms and dark green, leathery leaves
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Antigonon Leptopus in California and Desert Gardens
Dry climates can enjoy sprays of delicate pink flowers and heart-shaped leaves on this drought-tolerant, summer-flowering vine
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