Drought Tolerant Garden

For many gardeners, the only drawback about iris season is that it is over too soon. One of the greatest goals of iris hybridization is to create a more reliable rebloom. The most coveted varieties include those you can expect to see not only in spring, but again in late summer to fall--like the five varieties in our Reblooming Iris Collection. Create a dramatic scene in a perennial border brimming with large, magnificently ruffled, colorful blooms. You can also use these iris as strong…

Last fall we stayed in a house in Northern California with the most wonderful garden I have seen in a long while. I loved that it was filled with beautiful grasses and succulents but also it had herbs and some great native plants. I struggle with our landscape in the front of the house. It has become a very sore s

A fuss-free yard doesn't have to be boring. Keep the color coming all season long with this easy-care design.

In the southwest and Rocky Mountain areas, water wise landscape designs come in all colors and shapes and incorporate a wide range of both nativespecies as well as appropriate adapted plants, ranging from succulents and cacti to endemic penstemons and traditional perennials. A Santa Fe garden vignette features lavender, buddleia,poppies and other colorful and drought tolerant plants.

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Ack, sometimes grass is just too much trouble. I'm not anti-lawn by any means, its a lovely soothing foreground for flowers, and I love watching the birds that are attracted by grass lawns picking for seeds and bugs. But.... sometimes its just too much trouble.... My front yard was blah with so-so fescue turf, bald spots, and weeds. Not to mention, boring. So a while back I dug it up, rototilled the soil, and planted a butterfly garden. INGREDIENTS: Burgundy and White Iceberg roses Goodwin…

Dry landscape, Joshua Tree succulents, Yucca Palm (Yucca brevifolia), Walker Pass Road, Mojave Desert in Southern California; aka - yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree yucca

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With its boring lawn, scratchy hedge, and dying camphor tree, garden designer Marilyn Waterman’s yard in Menlo Park, California, “had no soul,” she says. So she created her version of a homestead, mixing edible and ornamental plants. Photo by Rachel Weill “When I took out the lawn, the neighbors said, ‘We could never do that. …

A flowering drought tolerant garden: Sages, Rudbeckias, Day Lilies, Yarrows, Lavenders

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Drought tolerant landscaping

Thoughts about our garden. “We desire,” the Emporer dictated, “that in the garden there should be all kinds of plants.” Charlemagne the Great I do a lot of writing about gardens, but our own personal garden has never been the subject of this blog. Our garden is always a backdrop to my thinking about gardens and gardening—a sort of character in my story whose face is never revealed. There are many reasons for this: first, our garden is just in the process of being established; I’m a terrible…

Stepping stones in rock path through California drought tolerant garden perennial bed with Euphorbia, Perovskia, Sedum 'Autumn Joy, Licorice Mint (Agastache 'Ava')