Dave Recommends

 

Drought Resistant Plants.

  • Golden euonymus: Often called creme de menthe, unique non blooming color mix plant.

  • Rosemary: Excellent fragrant plant that can be used in cooking.

  • Carpet rose bush: Comes in a variety of colors (red, white, pink and yellow) and can be trained low or high.

  • Tea tree: Dwarf type blooming tree that has its own unique tea look.

  • Bougainvillea: Although thorny and can look dead in winter months, it is one of the few that maximizes its color.

  • Honeysuckle: Large shrubs or twining vine that are noted for their colorful trumpet shaped flowers, sweet scent and attractiveness to butterflies and hummingbirds.

  • Nandina domestica: Very hearty bamboo bush that grows in sun or shade. They have unique white pods. These bushes have invasive trailers or runners that grow randomly.

  • Privet evergreen: Bush with unique white blooms in springtime.

  • Red tip photinia: Received its name with its unique shade of red on the tips of the leaf. Also blooms with white flowers in spring. Can be trained to look natural or tight

  • Oleander bush: A very poisonous plant yet a beautiful blooming shrub in colors of white, pink and red. They thrive with little care.

  • Lavender: Two types of this purple bee attracting plant.

  • Flax Plant: Once established, this unique color (brown or green) plant becomes very drought resistant. Long flat stemmed foliage with a triangular tip at the top.

  • Bird of paradise: Bird like blooms are the reason this plant gets its name.

  • Juniper bush: Can only tolerate rain water once established. Extra water can kill the bush.

  • Horse’s tail: Unique wavy stems that have a horses type tail as its bloom.

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