by 505 Outside | Aug 2, 2018 | Groundcovers
Full Sun
Low Water
Mature Size: 6”X 18”
Blooming Season: Summer
Flower Color: Purple-Pink
Purple Iceplant is another fine South African introduction, valued for its shimmering fuchsia-purple daisies that keep coming all summer. A vigorous spreader, it forms a dense mat of succulent, linear green leaves in any well-drained soil. Stop watering in mid-fall to harden for winter. This plant has become a staple in xeric gardens. Right at home where planted to spread on top of gravel mulch; it helps to cool down these hot areas.
by 505 Outside | Aug 2, 2018 | Groundcovers
Full Sun, Part Shade
Medium Water
Mature Size: 12”X 24”
Blooming Season: Early Fall
Flower Color: Blue
An outstanding, long-lived groundcover that slowly weaves itself into the garden, creating large drifts of fall color. The deep blue flowers, which begin as the weather begins to cool and days grow shorter, are numerous and long lasting. As the plant’s flowering finishes, its leaves begin a month-long change to a vivid mahogany-red color. Plumbago is extremely adaptable, growing equally well in sun or shade, and thriving in a wide range of soil types.
by 505 Outside | Aug 2, 2018 | Groundcovers
Full Sun, Part Shade
Medium Water
Mature Size: 1’X 3’+
Blooming Season: Summer
Flower Color: White
Widely regarded as a medicinal plant, and often found in the bosque as the wild groundcover under Cottonwoods, the landscape value of Yerba Mansa is finally being recognized. Its white coneflowers stand a foot above a dense carpet of large thick leaves that are deep green during the growing season, turning red and then a rich rusty brown through winter.
by 505 Outside | Aug 2, 2018 | Desert Accents
Full Sun, Part Shade
Low Water
Mature Size: 8”X 8”
Blooming Season: Summer
Flower Color: Bright pink
This perennial relative of moss rose grows neat tufts of narrow succulent leaves topped with a continuous show of rose pink flowers every afternoon throughout the hot summer months. The flowers float above the leaves on wiry gold stems giving them a delicate appearance completely at odds with their resilient nature. They reseed easily in gravelly or sandy soil without becoming weedy. With Flameflower you can’t have too much of a good thing.
by 505 Outside | Aug 2, 2018 | Desert Accents
Full Sun
Rainwater Only
Mature Size: 3’X 3’
Blooming Season: Early summer
Flower Color: White tinged pink
There are many species of Yucca that are native in the Southwest. They vary in height, leaf width and color but they are all reliably heat- and drought-resistant. Soapweed is one of the toughest; it is one of the smaller, narrow-leafed species that given enough time develops short stems and several clustered heads. Its bellshaped, waxy white, fragrant flowers are borne on short candelabra-like stems, the buds sometimes tinged rose-pink.
