Drought Tolerant Perennials Perennials For Sale In Houston

Wrinkled, lance-shaped, light green leaves (to 4” long) are aromatic. Excellent for cutting. Salvia East Friesland plants are sterile and do not set seed. This German selection has a nice compact habit, and flowers of deep violet-purple.

Prune the central stems of the yarrow if they begin to die back. In colder climates, cut it back as one of the last chores in your garden before the snow flies. X ‘Coronation Gold' except in size and shade of flower color and that it tends to stay upright...

Plants will naturalize over time. This vigorous, mat-forming, evergreen species has electric golden-yellow foliage that holds its color through the heat of summer. The drooping buds face upward when they open and the plant can grow to 6 inches tall and...

Often repeat blooms in late summer or fall. 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 culinary uses.

Is a vigorous grower that will quickly form a dense weed-blocking mat. Butterflies Love this plant! We suggest when planting your newly purchased Achillea Paprika plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

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. Butterfly Weed is one of only a few plants that we do not recommend pruning.

Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden. The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily. The Purple D'Oro daylily prefers full sun.

We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system to rot.

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. Grows 6-12'' tall and 6-9'' wide.

We highly recommend that you mulch your Geranium Biokovo with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and...

Ceratostigma produces brilliant blue flowers with striking red calyces cover bright green foliage from mid-summer to fall, when the leaves turn deep red. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the...

Ideal in sunny beds and borders. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. Attracts pollinators Achillea Strawberry Seduction from Rozanne and Friends features showy,...

* It is also an ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars selected for different flower colors. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona...

* The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position.

May be grown as an annual throughout the normal range for the species, and in particular in the northern parts of USDA Zone 5 where it is not reliably winter hardy and appreciates some winter protection.

It prefers light soils with a high phosphorus content. * Other names by which this grass is known include dhaman grass, anjan grass and koluk katai. * This plant has a very low ignition threshold and can burn even during the peak growing season.

It also provides cover and feeding sites for quail, turkeys and other ground nesting birds. It can reach up to 3-4' and has a silver bluish hue to the leaves during the growing season.

The upper surfaces of the leaves are glabrous or have hirsute to strigose hairs. The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. The leaf bases are attenuate to cordate in shape and the margins of the leaves...

It prefers a sunny (or part shade), location with regular rainfall, but is adaptable to a variety of soils and conditions. Your Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass will grow up to 5 feet tall with an 18-inch spread.

Tender young leaves are considerably less bitter than older leaves. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles or being unwinged.

Grows well in dry areas without much care. Perfect for keeping out weeds and highlighting shady corners, the silvery leaves are tidy and pest-free. Through most of the summer, the dense mats are covered with bright, low spikes of lavender-pink.

When planting, set 12'' apart in a perennial border or beds. You'll have bright blue flowers from July until the frosts of fall. Blue Stokesias make excellent cut flowers for indoor arrangements! They are easy to grow -- thrive in ordinary, well-drained...

Flowers appear in terminal spikes (to 4” long) in summer. Lavender Provence' is one of the tallest of the lavandins. This a mounded, shrubby cultivar that typically grows to 30-36” tall.

Once established, the daylily can be an excellent groundcover on slopes because it has roots that hold soil against erosion. Use 'Ruby Spider' as a marvelous specimen plant, or it can make a grand statement when planted in masses.

Attractive to butterflies and finches and good for cutting too. This dynamic perennials flowers open up green, and develop a warm pink coloration in the center. Deer resistant. The compact plants grow 2-3' tall with a 12-18” spread and produce lots...

Space 18-24" apart. Also attracts hummingbirds and butterflies and is drought tolerant. Grows 26" tall. Large blooms, strong growth and an easy care habit that can survive in harsh conditions make this a standout performer.

* Great for mass plantings * Looks good in containers * Keeps color well into fall Use in mass plantings, borders, containers, or as a specimen plant. It is a warm season ornamental grass which features a mound of narrow, stiff, green leaves.