Plant List


Dalea bicolor v argyraea

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Common Name: Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Low silvery shrublets bear attractive heads of bright purple with white in autumn. Zone 7?


Garden Notes: Native to the Trans-Pecos where it grows in rocky limestone. Hardy to about 10 degrees. It is extremely drought and heat tolerant. Rapid growth form hard spring pruning.

Dalea bicolor v argyraea 'Monterrey Blue'

Common Name: Indigo Bush 'Monterrey Blue'
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Low silvery shrublets bear attractive heads of bright purple with white in autumn. Zone 7?


Garden Notes: Native to the Trans-Pecos where it grows in rocky limestone. Hardy to about 10 degrees. It is extremely drought and heat tolerant. Rapid growth form hard spring pruning.

Dalea candida

Common Name: White Prarie Clover
Bloom Color: White
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"

Dalea frutescens

Common Name: Black Dalea 'Sierra Negra'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple/Yellow/White
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Tiny green leaves with black stems. Purple and yellow pea shaped blooms. Tolerates richer soils.


Dalea greggii

Common Name: Trailing Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 48"
Description:

Mounding groundcover with silver leaves and blooms in spring and early summer.


Garden Notes: Prune back to the main stem annually in early winter or early spring, before new growth begins. During prolonged summer droughts, water deeply once a month. Numerous long, trailing, ground-covering stems from a woody base will root at the nodes to form a tight, low mounding colony with evergreen gray-green compound leaves and spikes of small rose-lavender to purple flowers in early spring through summer. Low water, full sun to light part shade, well draining soil. Foliage hardy to 15°, root hardy below that. Good, fast growing, soil stabilizing groundcover, very drought tolerant once established.

Dalea jamesii

Common Name: James's Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Yellow
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 3"
Mature Width: 5"
Description:

Tufts of sivery-green, fingered foliage carry balls of silver wool embedded with lemon flowers. The whole plant smells like lemon.


Dalea pulchra

Common Name: Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 40"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

NOT ZONED HERE-SUNSET TRIAL- Pima Co, AZ Balls of Purple flowers. Silvery shrublets.


Dalea purpurea

Common Name: Purple Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Almost No Water Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:

Highly nutritious forage plant.woody taproot


Dalea scoparia

Common Name: Broom Dalea
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Almost No Water Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

MOUNDING. LEAFLESS GREY STEMS COVERED WITH PURPLE PEA-LIKE BLOOMS IN SUMMER. TRIAL '10


Dalea villosa

Common Name: Silky Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lavender
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 15"
Mature Width: 15"
Description:

Attractive perennial, hairy leaves and 3-5" flower spikes with lavender flowers. Grows on sand dunes.


Delphinium chinensis (grandifloram)

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Common Name: Blue Butterfly
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 15"
Description:

Sturdy, compact plant. Bright true blue flowers.


Garden Notes: taller, lankier, hardier?

Desmanthus illinoisis

Common Name: Illinois Bundleflower
Bloom Color: White
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Panhandle native, important native legume. Good as dried flower. Nice winter interest in seedpods.


Dianthus amurensis

Common Name: Siberian Blues
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

Violet-Blue. Closest of the Dianthus to a true blue. Performs well. Low growing, spreading plants with a nice bloom season.


Dianthus deltoides 'Albus'

Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Albus'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: White
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

White flowers, Spreading perennial blooming first summer good for beds and containers.


Dianthus deltoides 'Brilliancy'

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Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Brilliancy'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Crimson Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Useful for showy groundcover. Can take half-day shade. Blooms first year from seed. Large, bright, crimson red flowers


Dianthus deltoides 'Flashing Light'

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Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Flashing Light'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Scarlet Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Brilliant scarlet, dark leaved, tufted habit


Dianthus deltoides 'Roseous'

Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Roseous'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Pink
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Clear pink, charming, the archetype for the series TRIAL FOR 2010


Dianthus deltoides 'Shrimp'

Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Shrimp'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Salmon
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Straight salmon pink, spreading habit. TRIAL FOR 2010


Dianthus deltoides 'Vampire'

Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Vampire'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Carmine Rose
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Carmine Rose, most scarlet of the series TRIAL FOR 2010


Dianthus deltoides 'Zing Rose'

Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Zing Rose'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Crimson Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:

Dense bushy plants with large bright rose flowers TRIAL FOR 2010.


Dianthus gratianapolitanus

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Common Name: Chedder Pink
Bloom Season: Early Spring
Bloom Color: Pink
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:

Forms a full pink mat in spring. Pink shades, large flower. Nice evergreen/gray foliage.


Garden Notes: Nice deadheading improves looks.

Dianthus gratianapolitanus

Common Name: Chedder Pink Flavora rose shades
Bloom Season: Spring to Early Summer
Bloom Color: Rose
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:

First year flowering, rose shades with bright rings. Fragrant flowers first year from spring planting.


Dianthus Knappii

Common Name: Yellow Harmony
Bloom Season: Spring to Early Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 14"
Description:

Rich, yellow compact plant, improved for early bloom, neat habit, top flowering- TRIAL FOR 2010


Dianthus plumarius

Common Name: Cottage Pink 'Spring Beauty Mix'
Bloom Season: Spring to Early Summer
Bloom Color: Mix
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 18"
Description:

Large flowering, double mix in shades of pink, mauve, red and white.


Dianthus plumarius

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Common Name: Cottage Pink 'Sweetness'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink/Cherry/Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 6"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

Dwarf plumarius. Blooms first year from seed, all summer if deadheaded, loose matted gray-green leaves.


Garden Notes: very nice