California Native Desert Garden Plants - Southern California

Written by Greg Rubin

User Rating: / 0
PoorBest 

• Beautiful California Perennials
• California Native Groundcovers
• California Native Trees
• Large California Native Screening and Specimen Shrubs
• Medium Sized Foundational and Accent Shrubs for the California Native Garden
• California Native Desert Garden Plants

Favorite California Native Desert Garden Plants

• Desert Willow - Chilopsis linearis
  Not a willow, has beautiful trumpet pink flowers. Fast growing, heat tolerant, long bloom cycle. Can be pruned up into a nice standard or mult-trunk tree in the desert garden. Hummers love it. One of the parents of Chitalpa.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Actoons Brittlebush - Encelia actonii
  Small to medium desert shrubs with gray foliage and bright yellow daisies. Easy, very heat and drought tolerant. Foliage is very neat in the desert, can get a little rangy elsewhere. Actonii has orange centers.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Brittle Bush - Encelia farinosa
  Small to medium desert shrubs with gray foliage and bright yellow daisies. Easy, very heat and drought tolerant. Foliage is very neat in the desert, can get a little rangy elsewhere. Farinosa has brown centers.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Apache Plume - Fallugia paradoxa
  Neat shrub with fine leaves and white flowers followed by showy pink seed heads. Great for a desert garden. Very tough and drought tolerant. Adaptable.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Scented Penstemon - Penstemon palmeri
  Hot to light pink flowers on impressive upright plants. Palmeri is very fragrant. Very drought tolerant. Excellent around rocks in a desert garden.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Desert Penstemon - Penstemon pseudospectabilis
  Hot to light pink flowers on impressive upright plants. Palmeri is very fragrant. Very drought tolerant. Excellent around rocks in a desert garden.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Celestial Blue Sage - Salvia x sp 'Celestial Blue'
  Three way hybrid sage with intense blue flowers and pink buds. Lovely, striking, good in the desert.
  Additional Details
  
  
• Desert Mallow - Sphaeralcea ambigua
  Gorgeous, bright orange flowered mallow (sometimes red, pink, white, or purple). Small shrub to about 3 feet. Wonderful in the desert but is also adaptable to inland and even coastal gardens.
  Additional Details

TrackBack URI for this entry

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

Related Articles/Posts

Marcie Forsberg - Midwest...

Companion Plants for Succulent Gardens - Southern California...

Bulbs, Rhizomes, etc. - Southern California...

Trees - Southern California...

Janet Wanerka - Southwest...

Dave Ehrlinger - Southwest...

Perennials - Oregon...

Salvia - Best Flower - Southern California...

My Favorite Climbers - Southern California...

Salvia - Best Overall - Southern California...