Southwest garden plants from the wild wild west love the heat, are drought-tolerant, and some can tolerate considerable cold, too.
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Salvia azurea 'Little Boy Blue'
Item #: 10547
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia 'Big Blue'
Item #: 16696
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia darcyi 'Presidio'
Item #: 17484
Zones: 6a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 54" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia greggii 'Big Pink'
Item #: 2615
Zones: 7a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 40" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia greggii 'Lipstick'
Item #: 3202
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia greggii 'Teresa'
Item #: 7195
Zones: 7a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia x jamensis 'California Sunset'
Item #: 5952
Zones: 7b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia x jamensis 'Golden Girl' PP 23,997
Item #: 2347
Zones: 7b to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia x jamensis 'Rose Bicolor' PP 33,084
Item #: 17865
Zones: 7b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia leucantha
Item #: 996
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia leucantha 'Midnight'
Item #: 929
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 40" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara'
Item #: 3841
Zones: 8a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia leucantha 'White Mischief'
Item #: 6202
Zones: 8a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia 'Mes Azur' PP 21,097
Item #: 16664
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips'
Item #: 5424
Zones: 6a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia microphylla 'San Carlos Festival'
Item #: 185
Zones: 7a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia 'Mirage Blue' PP 33,036
Item #: 18232
Zones: 7a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 16" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia 'Mirage Cherry Red' PP 28,527
Item #: 18233
Zones: 7a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 16" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia oxyphora
Item #: 1931
Zones: 8a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Bolivia, Peru
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia 'Phyllis Fancy'
Item #: 6157
Zones: 7b to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 84" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Salvia 'Silke's Dream'
Item #: 4442
Zones: 7a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Schizachyrium scoparium 'Chameleon' PP 31,339
Item #: 16886
Zones: 3a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Schizachyrium scoparium 'Twilight Zone' PP 27,432
Item #: 13509
Zones: 3a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Scutellaria suffrutescens 'Texas Rose'
Item #: 2192
Zones: 7a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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More Information About Southwest Garden Plants
The Magnificent Seven...plants that is. The Southwest US is home to many wonderful plant species that seem quite exotic to us East Coasters. Southwest garden plants from the wild wild west love the heat, are drought-tolerant, and some can tolerate considerable cold, too. For those of you with desert-envy you, too, can grow a variety of great Southwest garden plants in your garden. Here at Plant Delights Nursery, we have an enormous on-line plant catalog and have searched through it to create this mini-catalog of Southwest garden plants that look great in the landscape.
When you think of Southwest garden plants, two things come to mind...yucca and saguaro cactus. There are several species of the former that will grow just fine here in Raleigh, but sadly, we cannot grow the latter. Other Southwest garden plants that we can grow include agave, salvia, achillea, agastache, gaillardia, amorpha, anisacanthus, astragalus, calylophus, and oenothera.
If you expand your concept of Southwest garden plants to include any plants that would look good in a southwest style garden, you can include many non-native plants like agapanthus, bulbine, asparagus, antirrhinum, cistus, and delosperma. When you are ready to buy Southwest garden plants for your garden, grab a fistful of dollars, come out to our nursery at high noon and check out our online list of Southwest garden plants for sale. They are a real wild bunch of plants...all good, none are bad or ugly. Just remember that many of these plants prefer excellent drainage so you should be sure to add some true grit to your garden soil or you may return to find just a tombstone where the plant used to be.
























