Lush and Lean Right Plant, Right Place

Rachel Gioannini, APLD M.S. Horticulture Certified Master Gardener Investment

 Time

 Maintenance

 Budget Landscape truths Plant names Approaching your landscape

 Front vs. back yards  Measure your space  Microclimates  Passive water harvesting  Soils  What feels like home?  Design elements

Ground covers Low growing plants that are usually wider than they are tall. Chocolate Flower/Green Eyes ** Damianita ** Gregg’s Mistflower Sierra Gold Dalea Trailing Dalea Pink Ice Plant Hardy Ice Plant Lantanas Verbena Sandpaper Verbena Grasses Plants with blades instead of leaves, usually upright in form. Black Grama Blonde Ambition Blue Grama

Blue Grama Foerster’s Feather Reed Grass Indian Grass Elijah Blue Fescue Daylily Iris Torch Lily/Kniphofia Regal Mist Muhly Mexican Thread Grass Accents Unusual looking plants, often cacti or succulents. Often used for focal points. Palmer Agave Artichoke Agave

New Mexico Agave Queen Victoria Agave Candelilla Desert Milkweed

Slipper Plant Ocotillo Bell Flowered Yucca

Giant Hesperaloe Yellow Yucca

Brakelights Yucca Soapweed Yucca

Beaked Yucca Pendulous Yucca

Banana Yucca Perennials Plants that come back year after year. Mexican Flame Desert Honeysuckle Desert Marigold Angelita Daisy Common Butterfly Bush Woolly Butterfly Bush Yellow Bird of Paradise Red Bird of Paradise

Mexican Bird of Paradise Pink Fairy Duster Little Leaf Cordia Black Dalea Variegated Silverberry Gold Spot Euonymus India Hawthorne

Fraser’s Photinia Evergreen Euonymus Common Lilac Gopher Spurge Apache Plume Red Justicia Mexican Honeysuckle White Cloud Sierra Bouquet

Lynn’s Legacy Firecracker Penstemon Canyon Penstemon

Parry’s Penstemon Three-Leaf Sumac Mexican Petunia, Ruellia Chaparral Sage Mexican Bush Sage

Autumn Sage Stonecrop Yellow Bells Sierra Apricot Esparanza

Solar Flare

Crimson Flare

Orange Jubilee Arizona Rosewood Shade plants Plants for under trees or north side of your home Golden Columbine Anacacho Orchid Tree Bat-faced Cuphea Mexican Grass Tree, Toothless Sotol Rain Lily Vines Sprawling shape that can climb or grown on a trellis or other support Queen’s Wreath Desert Clematis Coral Honeysuckle Japanese Wisteria

Chinese Wisteria Edibles Plants that have edible components Water cost, more labor/maintenance, lifespan Artichoke Fig Peach Pomegranate Jujube Trees Provide shade Sweet Acacia Guajillo Desert Museum Palo Verde

Blue Palo Verde Mexican Palo Verde Desert Willow

‘Lucretia Hamilton’

‘Bubba’ Chitalpa Art’s Seedless Leyland Cypress Skyrocket Juniper Purpleleaf Plum Krauter Vesuvius Purpleleaf Plum Cork Oak Silver Peso Texas Mountain Laurel Texas Mountain Laurel Resources  Websites

 Mountain States Wholesale Nursery

 http://www.mswn.com/plants/database/

 Missouri Botanical

 http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx

 Floridata Plant Encyclopedia

 http://floridata.com/plantlist/

 New Mexico Plant List

 http://wuc.ose.state.nm.us/Plants/

 Dave’s Garden

 http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/  Nurseries

 Sierra Vista Growers, Anthony, NM

 Guzman/Color Your World, Las Cruces, NM

 Civano Nursery, Tucson, AZ

 Mesquite Valley Growers, Tucson, AZ Mail Order Plants

 Plant Delights Nursery, Raleigh, NC

 https://www.plantdelights.com/

 Spring Hill Nurseries, Tipp City, OH

 https://www.plantdelights.com/

 High Country Gardens, Shelburne, VT*

 https://www.highcountrygardens.com/

 * recently moved headquarters to VT but say plants are grown in NM, UT and CO Questions? TYPE BOTANICAL NAME COMMON NAME T W Berlandiera lyrata Chocolate Flower 1-4' 1-4' Chrysactinia mexicana Damianita 1-2' 2-3' G Conoclinium (Eupatorium) greggii Gregg's Mistflower 12-18" 1-2' R Dalea capitata Sierra Gold Dalea 1' 3' O U Dalea greggii Trailing Dalea 1' 4-6' N Delosperma cooperi Pink Ice Plant 5" 2' D Delosperma nubigenum Hardy Ice Plant 2" 3' C Lantana montevidensis Purple Lantana 2-3' 2-6' O Lantana 'New Gold' New Gold Lantana 2-3' 2-6' V Lantana 'Radiation' Radiation Lantana 2-3' 2-6' E R Lantana sellowiana 'Monma' White Lightnin' Lantana 2-3' 2-6' S Lantana species Orange Lantana 2-3' 2-6' Verbena gooddingii Gooding Verbena 18' 3' Verbena rigida Sandpaper Verbena 18" 2' Bouteloua eriopoda Black Grama 12-20" 18-24" Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama 9-24" 18-24" Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition' Blonde Ambition Blue Grama 30-36" 30-36" G Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' Foerster's Feather Reed Grass 18-24" 28-24" R Sorghastrum nutans Indian Grass 3-5' 1-2' A Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' Elijah Blue Fescue 6-12" 6-12" S S Hemerocallis hybrid Daylily 2-4' 2-4' E Zephyranthes candida Rain Lily 1' 1-2' S Iris germanica Bearded Iris 2-4' 1-3' Kniphofia uvaria Torch Lily 3-4' 2-3' Muhlenbergia capillaris 'Regal Mist' Regal Mist Muhly 3' 3' Nasella (Stipa) tenuissima Mexican Thread Grass 1-2' 1-2' Agave neomexicana New Mexico Agave 18-24" 24-30" Agave palmeri Palmer Agave 3-4' 3-4' Agave parryi var. truncata Artichoke Agave 2' 2' Agave victoriae-reginae Queen Victoria Agave 1' 1' Euphorbia antisyphilitica Candelilla 3' 3' A Pedilanthus macrocarpus Slipper Plant 3' 2' C Asclepias subulata Desert Milkweed 2-3' 1-2' C Fouquieria splendens Ocotillo 6-25' 6-25' E N Hesperaloe campanulata Bell Flowered Hesperaloe 3-4' 3-4' T Hesperaloe funifera Giant Hesperaloe 4-6' 4-8' S Hesperaloe parviflora 'Perpa' Brakelights Red Yucca 2-3' 2-3' Hesperaloe parviflora 'Yellow' Yellow Yucca 1-2' >2' Yucca baccata Banana Yucca 3' 5' Yucca glauca Soapweed Yucca 3' 3' Yucca recurvifolia (Y. pendula) Pendulous Yucca 3-6' 3-6' Yucca rostrata Beaked Yucca 12' 9' Anisacanthus quadrifidus v. wrightii Mexican Flame 3-6' 2-5' Anisacanthus thurberi Desert Honeysuckle 5-8' 5-8' Baileya multiradiata Desert Marigold 1-2' 1-2' Hymenoxys acaulis Angelita Daisy 1' 1' Buddleia davidii Common Butterfly Bush 4-8' 4-8' Buddleia marrubifolia Woolly Butterfly Bush 5' 5' Caesalpinia gilliesii Yellow Bird of Paradise 4-12' 4-8' Caesalpinia mexicana Mexican Bird of Paradise 10-15' 10' Caesalpinia pulcherrima Red Bird of Paradise 5-8' 5-8' Calliandra eriophylla Fairy Duster 1-3' 3-4' Cordia parvifolia Little Leaf Cordia 4-8' 4-10' Dalea frutescens Black Dalea 3' 4' Elaeagnus pungens 'Variegata' Variegated Silverberry 5-12' 5-12' Euonymus japonicus Evergreen Euonymus 4-8' 4-5' Euonymus japonicus 'Gold Spot' Gold Spot Euonymus 4-8' 3-6' Photinia fraseri Fraser's Photinia 5-12' 5-10' P Raphiolepis indica India Hawthorne 4-6' 4-6' E R Syringa vulgaris Common Lilac 4-15' 6-12' E Euphorbia rigida (E. biglandulosa) Gopher Spurge 2' 3' N Fallugia paradoxa Apache Plume 3-8' 3-8' N Justicia candicans Red Justicia 3-5' 3-4' I Justicia spicigera Mexican Honeysuckle 2-6' 2-6' A Leucophyllum frutescens 'White Cloud' White Cloud Sage 5-8' 5-8' L S Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Lynn's Legacy' Lynn's Legacy Texas Ranger 5' 5' Leucophyllum pruinosum 'Sierra Bouquet' Sierra Bouquet 6-8' 6-8' Penstemon eatonii Firecracker Penstemon 18-36" 18-36" Penstemon parryi Parry's Penstemon 18-36" 18-36" Penstemon pseudospectabilis Canyon Penstemon 18-36" 18-36" Rhus trilobata Three-Leaf Sumac 3-8' 6-8' Ruellia simplex (R. brittoniana) Mexican Petunia 3' 2-3' Salvia clevelandii Chaparral Sage 2-4' 2-4' Salvia greggii Autumn Sage 1-3' 1-3' Salvia leucantha Mexican Bush Sage 3-4' 3-4' Sedum spectabile Stonecrop 1-2' 1-2' Tecoma hybrid Tecoma 'Orange Jubilee' 8-12' 6-8' Tecoma hybrid 'Crimson Flare' Crimson Flare Esperanza 6-8' 6-8' Tecoma hybrid 'Solar Flare' Solar Flare Esperanza 4-6' 4-6' Tecoma stans v. angustata Arizona Yellow Bells 5-10' 5-10' Tecoma x 'Sierra Apricot' Sierra Apricot Esperanza 3' 4-5' Vauquelinia californica Arizona Rosewood 10-20' 5-10' S Aquilegia chrysantha Golden Columbine 2-3' 2-3' H Bauhinia lunarioides (B. congesta) Anacacho Orchid Tree 6-8' 5-7' A Cuphea llavea Bat Faced Cuphea 1-2' 1-2' D Dasylirion quadrangulatum (D. longissima) Mexican Grass Tree 10' 6-8' E Zephyranthes candida Rain Lily 1' 1-2' V Antigonon leptopus Queen's Wreath * * I Clematis drummondii Desert Clematis * * N Lonicera sempervirens Coral Honeysuckle * * E Wisteria japonica Japanese Wisteria * * S Wisteria sinensis Chinese Wisteria * * E Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus Artichoke 3-5' 3-5' D Ficus carica Fig 4-15' 6-15' I Prunus persica Flowering Peach 15-25' 15-25' B L Punica granatum Pomegranate 12-20' 10-15' E Punica granatum 'Nana' Dwarf Pomegranate 3' 3' S Zizyphus jujuba Jujube 20-50' 20-30' Acacia (Vachellia) farnesiana Sweet Acacia 15-25' 15-25' Acacia (Senegalia) berlandieri Guajillo 10-15' 10-15' Cercidium floridum Blue Palo Verde 10-15' 10-15' Parkinsonia aculeate Mexican Palo Verde 15-40' 15-40' Parkinsonia x cercidium hybrid Desert Museum Palo Verde 20-30' 20-30' Chilopsis linearis Desert Willow 15-25' 10-15' T Chilopsis linearis 'Art's Seedless' Art's Seedless Desert Willow 15-25' 10-15' R Chilopsis linearis 'Bubba' Bubba Desert Willow 15-25' 10-15' E E Chilopsis linearis 'Lucretia Hamilton' Lucretia Hamilton Desert Willow 15-25' 10-15' S x Cupressocyparis leylandii Leyland Cypress 20-30' 20-30' Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' Skyrocket 15-20' 2-3' Prunus cerasifera Purpleleaf Plum 15-25' 15-20' Prunus cerasifera 'Krauter's Vesuvius' Krauter Purple Leaf Plum 15-30' 15-25' Quercus suber Cork Oak 30-60' 30-60' Sophora secundiflora Texas Mountain Laurel 10-35' 10-20' Sophora secundiflora 'Silver Peso' Silver Peso Texas Mtn Laurel 15' 15'