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How to Design a Garden for Curb Appeal in the Southwest

When you pull into your driveway or walk up to your front door, ask yourself…

Designing a Cacti and Succulent Garden in the Southwest

Warming climate trends are creating more opportunities to add diverse succulents to Southwestern gardens. In…

Plants for the Southwest to Add to Your Shopping List

Whether you're walking through your local garden center, flipping through the pages of your favorite…

Deterring Deer, Rabbits, and Javelinas From Southwestern Gardens

Gardeners invest time, money, dedication, and care into their gardens. Many of us wait for…

Regional Picks: Grass Companions - Southwest

1. Licorice Mint Hyssop Name: Agastache rupestris USDA Hardiness Zones: 5 to 9 Size:…

Regional Picks: Bold Plants for Shade - Southwest

Finding plants that flourish in the shade isn't the challenge. Anyone can find a flock…

Regional Picks: Focal-Point Plants - Southwest

1. Blue Oat Grass Name: Helictotrichon sempervirens and cvs. USDA hardiness zones: 4 to 9…

Southwest Design Ideas

Beautiful and Delicious Fruits of Southwestern Cacti

Now that we’re more accustomed to living in the Southwest, we’ve been getting a little…
Columnar Cacti for the Southwest

A beautiful thing about cacti is the variety of shapes and sizes you can find…

Southwest Garden Inspiration

Grow Native Milkweeds to Bring Pollinators to Your Garden

Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed (Asclepias spp. and cvs., Zones 3–9) as their primary host…

A Water-Wise Garden That Wows

In 2005 I killed my front lawn. It wasn't negligence or ignorance. It was premeditated,…

Southwest Plants

'Angelina' sedum
Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'
Red-hot poker
Kniphofia uvaria
'Old Fashioned' smoke bush
Continus coggygria 'Old Fashioned'
Cinnamon Girl™ distylium
Distylium ‘PIIDIST-V’
Jazz Hands® variegated Chinese fringe-flower
Loropetalum chinense ‘Irodori’
The Princess™ Spanish lavender
Lavandula stoechas 'IBPR901-2'

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Vibrant, Unexpected Color From a Classic Annual

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Perennials for Fall Color

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