Drought Resistant Plants For Southern California

An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, and easy. Plant them where you intend to leave them as they typically do not like to be disturbed once established.

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. TScreamin' Yellow Baptisia was selected for its flower power and compact habit. Baptisia's are durable pest and disease resistant native taprooted perennials and could be considered the Lupine for the south.

Australis this beauty seems to have garnered the best of both worlds. An accidental hybrid of our native Baptisia alba and B. Dark sturdy spikes are covered by smokey purple pea-like blossoms with a darker purple eye in mid spring.

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

Excellent for containers. Checkout our new Plumeria Growing Guide for more detailed growing information. The Plumeria is an easily grown, summer flowering, heat and sun loving small tropical tree that makes a great addition to tropical gardens or containers.

The Mezoo Variegated Ice Plant is a naturally evergreen perennial tropical plant and is considered to be hardy to near 25 o F for short periods although some resources suggest it is hardy into zone 8.

Image courtesy North Creek Nurseries. Considered a must for the cutflower garden as the spikes have an excellent vase life. An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, and easy.

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. Carolina Moonlight Baptisia is a hybrid of Baptisia sphaerocarpa x B.

Provide slightly more moisture during the growing season and keep it on the dry side during winter. The Hardy Ice Plants have good drought tolerance once well established and are suitable for xeriscaping.

Australis this beauty seems to have garnered the best of both worlds. An accidental hybrid of our native Baptisia alba and B. Dark sturdy spikes are covered by smokey purple pea-like blossoms with a darker purple eye in mid spring.

Gauras are hardy and reliable drought tolerant native perennials. Gaura's drought tolerance makes it a suitable perennial for xeriscaping. This is one of our favorite Guara selections! Item # 9579.

Provide slightly more moisture during the growing season and keep it on the dry side during winter. The Hardy Ice Plants have good drought tolerance once well established and are suitable for xeriscaping.

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

Achillea Paprika is very drought tolerant once established and will attract masses of butterflies to your garden. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Achillea Paprika a good deep watering.

They are very drought tolerant once established and will attract butterflies to your garden. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil...

Although it is rarely used for culinary purposes, it is frequently used as an addition to sachets and potpourris. Hybrid cultivars vary somewhat in habit, flower color, aromatic intensity and bloom time.

An easy-to-grow plant that not only tolerates drought, but seems to thrive in it. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Sedum Autumn Fire plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown.

In any event, cut plants back after flowering has concluded. Magnificent deep purple spikes of flowers that attract butterflies and bees! The most intense deep indigo-purple spikes imaginable rise to 18″ above the rough green leaves during June and...

Narrow, gray-green leaves (to 2 1/2” long) on square stems. Lavender Hidcote is a compact mounded form typically growing to 20” tall and featuring deep purple-blue flowers and gray foliage.

Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud.

Salvia East Friesland plants are sterile and do not set seed. If plants flop or otherwise depreciate in summer to the point where they look unsightly, consider cutting them back to the basal foliage.

Good tolerance to extreme heat and humidity, and resistant to common root and foliar diseases. This is a very large, hedging lavender that can be used to create a border around the garden and also can be grown as a cut and dried flower for potpourri and...

Some event, which seems as logical as a few of the plot twists of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, linked this Central American plant to a fictional African city. You'll only need to buy seeds once.

They bloom most of the summer and attract nature's pollinators, making them ideal to have near your vegetable plants as well. This coneflower cultivar is an upright, rhizomatous, clump-forming perennial which typically grows 2-3′ tall.

Doing so can cause rotting of the stem and death to the plant. The plants grow in clumps, making super easy to utilize them in mixed garden beds. For the most part, Echinacea ‘Magnus' can be planted year around, provided the ground isn't frozen.

Geranium Biokovo reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. Remains neat all season with very little care.