Spanish Lavender – Lavandula stoechas
Height: 16 – 36 inches
Width: 16 – 36 inches
Bloom color: Purple
Flowering season: Spring, Summer
USDA minimum zone: 7
Cold hardiness: 10° F
Spanish Bayonet – Yucca aloifolia
Height: 10 – 15 feet
Width: 5 – 8 feet
Bloom color: White
Flowering season: Summer
USDA minimum zone: 7
Cold hardiness: 10° F
Spanish Dagger – Yucca gloriosa
Height: 6 – 15 feet
Width: 8 – 10 feet
Bloom color: White
Flowering season: Summer, Fall
USDA minimum zone: 8
Cold hardiness: 15° F
Southern Live Oak – Quercus virginiana
Southern Live Oak is one of the few large evergreen shade trees for our hot, arid region. This broad and stately tree grows faster than most of the notoriously slow Oaks, and tolerates more soil moisture than other desert adapted trees. Once established, it will also accept periods of drought, which means that Southern Live…
Sosa Carillo Fig – Ficus carica ‘Sosa Carillo’
Height: 15 – 30 feet
Width: 15 – 30 feet
Bloom color: n/a
Flowering season: Early Summer, Early Fall
USDA minimum zone: 8
Cold hardiness: 15° F
Sonoran Tree Bear Grass – Nolina matapensis
Height: 12 – 15 feet
Width: 5 – 6 feet
Bloom color: Cream White
Flowering season: Summer
USDA minimum zone: 8
Cold hardiness: 15° F
Snail Vine – Vigna caracalla
This bean-relative has foliage similar to that of peas and beans, but a far more interesting and unusual blossom. Snail Vine’s flower has curled keel petals, not unlike a snail shell. Young blossoms start out a bright white, eventually darkening to a lilac shade of purple. Flowers are followed by a pea-like pod. Thin, delicate…
Society Garlic – Tulbaghia violacea
Society garlic is a grassy, clumping groundcover that matures at about a foot tall. Lilac-purple flower clusters top tall flower stems that stand anywhere from a few inches to a foot above the plant throughout the warm months, but are most abundant in the spring and summer. Foliage has a strong garlicky-onion scent when brushed…
Soaptree Yucca – Yucca elata
Height: 6 – 20 feet
Width: 6 – 10 feet
Bloom color: White
Flowering season: Spring
USDA minimum zone: 6
Cold hardiness: -10° F