Drought, Xeric & Dry Soil Plants

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  • Potentilla thurberi Scarlet cinquefoil Z 5-9

    Loose clusters of Cabernet-red saucers blooming atop tall stems, elevating the small saucer-like flowers to make them more visible. Blooms from June to September.

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    Loose clusters of Cabernet-red saucers blooming atop tall stems, elevating the small saucer-like flowers to make them more visible. Blooms from June to September.

    Size: 30" x 12"
    Care: full sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Arizona & New Mexico

    Potentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties.  This species collected before 1880’s.

  • Potentilla tridentata syn. Sibbaldiopsis tridentate Three-toothed cinquefoil Z 2-7

    Clusters of white, single rose-like saucer flowers spring and early summer on this dainty-appearing perennial.  Its glossy evergreen leaves tinge red in fall and winter.

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    Clusters of white, single rose-like saucer flowers spring and early summer on this dainty-appearing perennial.  Its glossy evergreen leaves tinge red in fall and winter.

    Size: 6" x 12" spreading by runners-can become a groundcover.
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained acidic soil.
    Native: New England to Upper Great Lakes, north to the Arctic, Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, Wisconsin native.
    Awards: Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New England

    Described by Kew’ Botanic Garden’s 1st botanist William Aiton  (1731-1793) Hortus Kewensis vol 2 p. 216 (1789), who wrote that it came from  Benjamin Bewick’s “curious botanic garden” in Clapham.  Introduced it in 1776.

  • Pulsatilla patens syn. Anemone patens Eastern pasque flower Z 3-7

    Up-facing blue-violet bells in early spring emerge from foliage decorated with silky hairs.

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    Up-facing blue-violet bells in early spring emerge from foliage decorated with silky hairs.

    Size: 8-12” x 4-6" slow to grow, so be patient
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: northern Great Plains including WI, Siberia, Alaska

    The name Pasque is Old French for Easter referring to the spring bloom time. Patens means “spreading.”  South Dakota honors this as its state flower.
    Collected for gardens prior to 1753.  The Blackfoot made a decoction of this plant to speed a baby’s delivery and applied crushed leaves to skin to remedy irritation.  Omaha applied fresh, crushed leaves as a poltice for rheumatism.

  • Ribes aureum syn. Ribes odoratum Clove currant Z 3-8

    Early to mid-spring yellow flowers shaped like a tube with 5 petals opening wide at the ends smother the shrub giving off a sweet, clove-scented fragrance – heavenly.  Ships only in spring.

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    Early to mid-spring yellow flowers shaped like a tube with 5 petals opening wide at the ends smother the shrub giving off a sweet, clove-scented fragrance – heavenly.  Ships only in spring.

    Size: 6' x 6' spreading
    Care: Sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil.
    Native: west-central US
    Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds for nectar. Small mammals eat the berries. Immune to Walnut toxins

    Many tribes ate the berries.  Shoshone and Paiute used the shrub’s inner bark to heal sores and swellings. Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis & Clark Expedition found this in 2 locations – “near the narrows of the Columbia” April 16 1806, now Klickitat County Washington, and on July 29, 1805 in Montana.

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  • Rubus odoratus Flowering raspberry Z 2-8

    Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers all summer

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    Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers from June to October.  Rarely seen shrub.

    Size: 7-8' x 8' spreading
    Care: Sun to shade in moist well-drained soil. Slightly acidic.
    Native: Maine to Michigan, south to Illinois, Tennessee, east to North Carolina and all places in between
    Wildlife Value: Immune to walnut toxins.

    For sale in an English catalog in 1730. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial garden, praised the flowering raspberry as bearing  “large clusters of rich purple flowers. Bearing scented leaves, the leaves and not the flowers being fragrant.”

  • Rudbeckia laciniata var. hortensia Golden Glow Z 3-9

    Imposing double daisies with multiple petals bloom atop a 6 or 7 foot erect stem as thick as a small tree trunk  reign over neighboring flowers like a king. “Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting, “Sanders 1913.  Blooms July-August.

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    Imposing double daisies with multiple petals bloom atop a 6 or 7 foot erect stem as thick as a small tree trunk  reign over neighboring flowers like a king. “Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting, “Sanders 1913.  Blooms July-August.

     

    Size: 5-7' x 12" and spreading
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well drained soil, drought tolerant
    Wildlife Value: Immune to Walnut toxins

    Serendipitous discovery in a group of seedlings in 1894. Said to be “the most popular hardy perennial introduced during the last 25 years,” April, 1905, The Garden magazine. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908. Beth in New Mexico advised that her alpaca named Ricardo finds them delicious.

  • Ruellia humilis Prairie petunia Z 3-9

    Lilac open-face trumpets late June-October. Slow to emerge in spring so be patient. One of those non-flashy work-horses, a “MUST HAVE” plant of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf. Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Lilac open-face trumpets late June-October. Slow to emerge in spring so be patient. One of those non-flashy work-horses, a “MUST HAVE” plant of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf. Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 10-12” x 10”
    Care: sun in any soil
    Native: Midwest south to Florida and Texas, Wisconsin native where it is endangered.
    Wildlife Value: Pollinated primarily by long tongue bees who can reach far into the flower’s throat.

    Ruellia  named for French royal herbalist Jean Ruell (1474-1537.)  First collected by Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) C.1810 English plant hunter who found more American plants than anyone else, early 1800’s.

  • Salvia argentea Silver sage Biennial or short lived perennial Z 5-7

    Large rosettes of the woolliest silver leaves. So soft you want to pet them. Grow this for the leaves, not the flowers. It dies after flowering so cut back flower stems to prevent flowering, or, if you want to save seeds let it flower.  It self-seeds sometimes.

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    Large rosettes of the woolliest silver leaves. So soft you want to pet them. Grow this for the leaves, not the flowers. It dies after flowering so cut back flower stems to prevent flowering, or, if you want to save seeds let it flower.  It self-seeds sometimes.

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    Size: 2-4’ x 12"
    Care: Sun in well-drained soil.
    Native: Europe & No. Africa around Mediterranean
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Plant Select® Central Rocky Mountain region

    Salvia is from the Latin “salveo” meaning “to heal” referring to the plant’s ancient medicinal uses. Collected before 1750. The Garden reported it was introduced in 1768.  Liberty Hyde Bailey said its, “white woolly foliage makes it a very decorative plant.” (1933).