Table Mountain Ice Plant – Delosperma ‘John Proffitt’
Height: 2 – 3 inches Width: 1 – 2 feet Bloom color: Purple-Pink Flowering season: Summer, Fall USDA minimum zone: 6 Cold hardiness: -10° F
Tangerine Beauty Crossvine – Bignonia capreolata
Finding an evergreen vine that will take our summer heat is hard enough, but finding one that also produces bunches of colorful, fragrant flowers is quite a find! Thankfully, we have this American native to furnish our arbors and trellises with year-round lustrous green color that is accented by purple hues in winter and clusters…
Tara’s Pink Cape Mallow – Anisodontea ‘Tara’s Pink’
Height: 6 – 8 feet Width: 5 – 6 feet Bloom color: Pink Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall USDA minimum zone: 8 Cold hardiness: 18° F
Sweet Bay – Laurus nobilis
Sweet Bay is an upright, classic evergreen shrub used for picturesque spheres, boxes, and other topiary sculptures, as it is very accepting of clipping and shearing. Its natural growth habit is shrubby and conical in shape, but can easily be trained as a small, bushy tree. The dark green, leathery green leaves of Sweet Bay…
Sweet Katie Burgundy Desert Willow – Chilopsis linearis ‘Sweet Katie Burgundy’
Desert Willow is a gem of a tree requiring little care and gracing southwestern landscapes with year-round intrigue. It retains a charming, architectural winter silhouette when the tree is bare, and attracts hummingbirds and butterflies with its profusion of fragrant, orchid-like flowers for the rest of the year. Civano Nursery introduces a new selection of…
Sweet Acacia – Acacia smallii
Sweet Acacia is currently one of the most popular residential trees being planted across the southern states, and for many good reasons! Its compact size and tolerance of ridiculous heat and poor soil make it useful for almost any situation; residential, commercial or otherwise. The real reason for this tree’s popularity, however, is the abundant…
Summertime Blue Emu Bush – Eremophila x ‘Summertime Blue’
Height: 5 – 6 feet Width: 6 – 8 feet Bloom color: Lilac Blue Flowering season: Spring, Summer USDA minimum zone: 8 Cold hardiness: 15° F
Superb Penstemon – Penstemon superbus
Height: 2 – 4 feet Width: 1 – 2 feet Bloom color: Coral Red Flowering season: Spring USDA minimum zone: 7 Cold hardiness: 5° F
Sun Drops – Calylophus berlandieri
Sun Drops is a delightful little groundcover that finds a comfortable home in containers, garden borders, on slopes and in perennial beds or cactus gardens across the southwest. Compared to other varieties of Calylophus, this one has darker green, narrower leaves and tends to bloom longer into the summer. Sunny-yellow flowers open in the mornings…