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Rainwater OnlyMature Size: 60”X 48”
Blooming Season: Late Spring
Flower Color: White
Sotol is a very handsome, rather slow-growing succulent with large rosettes of long, flexible half- inch-wide blue-green leaves edged with white teeth. With age, the plant develops a woody trunk (up to 4 feet high) and eventually blooms producing narrow 10-foot-tall white-flowered spikes. An invaluable xeric ornamental for use all across the Southwest.
Full SunRainwater OnlyMature Size: 5”X 15”
Blooming Season: Late Spring
Flower Color: Red
Spiny Hedgehog is often found nestled in rocky ledges under the shade of pines throughout its habitat in New Mexico and southern Colorado. The spines are needle-sharp and caution should be used in planting this showy hedgehog out of harm’s way. Being a mountain dweller, Spiny Hedgehog doesn’t mind being under snow for much of the winter.
Full SunRainwater OnlyMature Size: 4”X 6”
Blooming Season: Late Spring
Flower Color: Pink
Coryphantha is a very adaptable species, making it a fine choice if you’ve never grown winter-hardy cacti before. Its dense gray-white spines obscure the stem and show off the large rose-pink flowers, which cover the plant in late spring. Clustering Pin Cushions is equally at home in the rock garden or in a xeric landscape planted with Penstemons, Zinnia grandiflora (Prairie Zinnia) or Calylophus (Sundrops).
Full SunRainwater OnlyMature Size: 30”X 30”
Blooming Season: Summer
Flower Color: Yellow
An impressive species from western New Mexico and eastern Arizona, Parry’s Century Plant is one of the most cold hardy of the Agave family. Forming large, heavily toothed rosettes, the sword-like leaves are blue-green. When the plant decides to bloom (after many years of slow growth), it sends up a huge 12- to15-foot flowering spike that will attract hummingbirds from miles around. Aga- ves need a long period of hot summer weather to regrow their fleshy roots after transplanting.
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Medium WaterMature Size: 24”X 36”
Blooming Season: Late Summer-Early Fall
Flower Color: Red
Along the front range in Colorado, gardeners have come to associate fall and the buzz of busy hummingbirds with the blazing scarlet Zauschnerias. Hummingbird Plant puts on an extravagant display of red-orange flowers. It thrives planted in front of hot south and west-facing walls and walks, in areas that might fry less heat-loving plants. Plant in well-drained soil; not too much clay. Hummingbird Plant appreciates regular watering the first year or two, particularly during dry winters, to help get it established.