Dry

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Japanese yellow sage
Salvia koyamae
At first glance, this Japanese woodland native does not look as if it belongs in a shade garden, but I find its spreading foliage and light-colored flowers do wonderfully as…
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Snow-in-summer
Cerastium tomentosum
Snow-in-summer is great for rock gardens and dry areas, and also works well as a container plant.
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‘Boulder Blue’ blue fescue
Festuca glauca ‘Boulder Blue’
Regarded by some as the bluest blue fescue, this plant forms compact, cascading mounds of foot-tall, intensely blue, narrow leaves that are attractive in all seasons.
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Toyon, Christmas berry, California holly
Heteromeles arbutifolia
This evergreen, California-native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and wide and produces abundant clusters of tiny white flowers in early summer, which attract beneficial insects that help control pests.
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Mrs. Robb’s bonnet
Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae
This variety has dark, glossy evergreen leaves arranged in tight rosettes, and it produces yellow-green bracts in mid-spring and early summer.
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Desert Willow
Chilopsis linearis
Desert willow is shrub native to the Southwest U.
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Golden barrel cactus
Echinocactus grusonii
Golden barrel cactus has a rounded form that eventually elongates.
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Ocotillo
Fouquieria splendens
This southwestern native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and sports long, dull, spiny stems that green up and leaf out after a rain, followed by…
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Black dalea
Dalea frutescens
This low, mounding, Southwest native shrub up to 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide has feathery foliage that contributes fine texture to a garden.
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Blue Atlas cedar
Cedrus atlantica f. glauca
This stunning evergreen conifer can be a very large specimen tree (to over 100 feet) in the landscape.

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