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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Drimiopsis maculata 'Slow Fade'
Item #: 3661
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun to Light Shade
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Drimiopsis sp. nov. Kampersrus
Item #: 16674
Zones: 8a to 11, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy'
Item #: 8928
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Echinocereus reichenbachii 'Columbus'
Item #: 11439
Zones: 5b to 8b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Engelmannia peristenia 'Bergheim'
Item #: 8775
Zones: 5a to 10b, at least
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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Sold outEryngium pandanifolium
Item #: 3197
Zones: 7b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Argentina, Brazil
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Eryngium yuccifolium 'Berserkley'
Item #: 18343
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 84" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Eryngium yuccifolium 'Kershaw Blue'
Item #: 6588
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 54" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Erythrina x bidwillii
Item #: 487
Zones: 7b to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Erythrina herbacea 'Woodlanders Pink'
Item #: 3065
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
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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Eucalyptus neglecta
Item #: 1001
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 360" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Australia
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Eucomis comosa 'Sparkling Burgundy'
Item #: 1796
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Eupatorium greggii
Item #: 3668
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Euphorbia myrsinites
Item #: 4041
Zones: 5a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Southern Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Gaillardia aestivalis 'Glitz 'n Glamour'
Item #: 15525
Zones: 7a to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 26" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Galphimia glauca
Item #: 18016
Zones: 8a to 11, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Part Sun
Origin: Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Gaura lindheimeri 'Pink Cloud'
Item #: 3989
Zones: 6a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Sold outGossypium thurberi 'Mt. Lemmon'
Item #: 8504
Zones: 8a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Sold outHabranthus brachyandrus
Item #: 2680
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: South America
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Sold outHabranthus robustus 'Albatross'
Item #: 18032
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Helianthus mollis 'Tulsa Gold'
Item #: 18367
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Helleborus foetidus 'Krenitsky'
Item #: 2281
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Western Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Hesperaloe parviflora
Item #: 917
Zones: 6a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
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Hesperaloe parviflora 'Coral Glow' PP 29,626
Item #: 12284
Zones: 5b to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.00
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.
























