Plant List
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Blue Plumbago
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: Groundcover
Description:
Good groundcover spreads by rhizomes.Long bloom season with dark blue flowers. Red foliage in fall. Garden Notes: Keep a border (sidewalk) around this plant to keep in place. Slow to leaf out in spring, sometimes dies to ground by winters, but usually provides hint of red through winter.
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Cercocarpus montanus var. argentus
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Common Name: Mountian Mahogany
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 6-20 feet
Mature Width: 8 feet
Description:
Deciduous shrub. Slow growing, russet colored leaves in fall, plumed tails on seed, deer browse. Garden Notes: My plants are making a nice, upright four foot shrub after five years. Extremely hardy, dependable.
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Chaenorrhinum origanifolium 'Blue Dreams'
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Common Name: Dwarf Snapdragon
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:
ZONE 7? Plant against rock wall for protection. |
Chilopsis linearis
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Desert Willow
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink and white
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 20 feet
Mature Width: 12 feet
Description:
A great tree or shrub. Blooms off and on through summer. Colors range from dark pink, pink, or white. Garden Notes: Dilute Nitrogen and water when young will speed growth. However this faster growth may result in weaker limbs. Heavy, wet snow can break these weaker limbs. Occasional (twice a summer) deep watering is good for better flowering and growth.
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Coriander 'Delfino'
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Common Name: Cilantro
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 20"
Description:
Cilantro. Used for flavoring Mexican dishes. Strip leaves off instead of pinching stems to keep producing. |
Cosmos bipinnatus
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Common Name: Sensation Series
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Mix
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 48"
Description:
Finely cut foliage and delicate, colorful flowers. Performs well and stands up to heat and humidity. |
Cosmos bipinnatus
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Common Name: Sonata Mix
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Mix
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 24"
Description:
Dwarf, extremely easy to grow. |
Dalea bicolor v argyraea
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
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.
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Dalea bicolor v argyraea 'Monterrey Blue'
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Common Name: Indigo Bush 'Monterrey Blue'
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
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.
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Dalea candida
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Common Name: White Prarie Clover
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
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Dalea frutescens
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Common Name: Black Dalea 'Sierra Negra'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple/Yellow/White
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
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Common Name: Trailing Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
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.
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Dalea jamesii
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Common Name: James's Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Yellow
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
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Common Name: Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Purple
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
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Common Name: Purple Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Highly nutritious forage plant.woody taproot |
Dalea scoparia
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Common Name: Broom Dalea
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
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
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Common Name: Silky Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lavender
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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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Blue Butterfly
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
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?
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Desmanthus illinoisis
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Common Name: Illinois Bundleflower
Bloom Color: White
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
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Common Name: Siberian Blues
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
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'
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Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Albus'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: White
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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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Brilliancy'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Crimson Red
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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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Flashing Light'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Scarlet Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:
Brilliant scarlet, dark leaved, tufted habit |
Dianthus deltoides 'Roseous'
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Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Roseous'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Pink
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'
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Common Name: Maiden Pink 'Shrimp'
Bloom Season: Summer and again in Fall
Bloom Color: Salmon
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 8"
Description:
Straight salmon pink, spreading habit. TRIAL FOR 2010 |