Drought Resistant Crops

TScreamin' Yellow Baptisia was selected for its flower power and compact habit. An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, and easy.

An accidental hybrid of our native Baptisia alba and B. Australis this beauty seems to have garnered the best of both worlds. Baptisias are naturally durable, pest and disease resistant, long-lived perennials and could be considered the Lupine for the...

An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, long-lived, and easy. Image courtesy of North Creek Nurseries.

Checkout our new Plumeria Growing Guide for more detailed growing information. Excellent for containers. Clusters of flaring, fragrant, red flowers are held at the ends of the thick sturdy stems, above the large rich green wide tropical foliage.

Edged in broad bands of creamy white the medium green foliage of the Mezoo Variegated Ice Plant makes a wonderful low trailing plant to add to mixed container gardens, in hanging baskets, or in the ground.

Considered a must for the cutflower garden as the spikes have an excellent vase life. Image courtesy North Creek Nurseries. This is the first introduction from their Baptisia breeding program.

Carolina Moonlight Baptisia produces loads of sturdy spikes filled with rich buttery yellow pea-like blossoms that emerge in mid to late spring. Images courtesy of AG 3, Inc. Purple Smoke is another NCBG Baptisia introduction.

Soft golden yellow, finely petaled flowers are borne throughout the growing season on this easy to grow succulent groundcover. Please plant responsibly as Delosperma is considered to be invasive in some regions, particularly California.

An accidental hybrid of our native Baptisia alba and B. Australis this beauty seems to have garnered the best of both worlds. Baptisias are naturally durable, pest and disease resistant, long-lived perennials and could be considered the Lupine for the...

Gaura's drought tolerance makes it a suitable perennial for xeriscaping. Gauras are hardy and reliable drought tolerant native perennials. Pink buds open to pure white butterfly-shaped flowers on tall wispy but sturdy stems on this fairly compact and...

Deep rosy red, finely petaled flowers are borne throughout the growing season on this easy to grow succulent groundcover. Please plant responsibly as Delosperma is considered to be invasive in some regions, particularly California.

Baptisia's only get better with age producing more and more spikes of flowers successively each year that they are allowed to share our gardens. An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant,...

For everlasting display, cut the stems when most flowers have matured to seed pods. 'Variegatum' presents you with variegated green and white leaves. It is a place born in the imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan novels written in...

“By the end of that time, you could have a more drought-tolerant variety.” Besides tomatoes, almost all bean varieties and the majority of grapes are suited to dry conditions, as well as some melons, squash, cucumbers, peppers, okra, corn, herbs and...

Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds. Dwarf, ground-hugging form spreads gently by underground stems making this a perfect groundcover. Geranium Biokovo was voted the 2015 Perennial Plant of the Year.

Continue irrigation after bloom, however, to keep foliage clumps attractive. Each flower features upright standards and flaring to drooping falls. Flowering stems rise above the foliage to 3' tall in May-June, each stem bearing 2-5 flowers in colors which...

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Cut back Sedum fuldaglut to within 6 inches of the ground after it has finished flowering.

Many gardeners apply a pruning sealant or paint to all cut surfaces after pruning, but that practice is generally not necessary. Can be used to help aid in this process and also provide plants with a good soaking due to the slow release of the water into...

Each flower may last up to two weeks! Makes a wonderful and long lasting cut flower. Oblong to lanceolate, dark green foliage. It is an excellent perennial for providing color in late summer and is especially showy in mass plantings.

Its general purpose is to maintain or restore vigor to the plant. Pruning a specific plant to look a specific way, involves art in creating a unique definition for a specific plant, and it involves science in understanding the physical growing habits...

When roots are burned, the first sign is often scorched looking leaves. In general gardening terms, pruning is probably the most misunderstood gardening chore, and certainly, the chore that is most likely neglected.

When fertilizing plants grown in containers, be careful to apply a fertilizer that will not burn the roots (such as a slow release or a liquid fertilizer). Don't fertilize Thuja Whipcord after August in the North.

Screenings and hedges of butterfly bushes would need to be pruned for their specific purpose within the landscape. Excellent results have been reported by visitors to this site after using composted manure.

Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

In general gardening terms, pruning is probably the most misunderstood gardening chore, and certainly, the chore that is most likely neglected. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Lo and Behold Pink Micro Chip Buddleia a good deep watering. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in...

Use en masse to create a wonderful border for perennial beds, or along walks and entryways We suggest when planting your newly purchased Caryopteris Dark Knight plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.