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Drought Tolerant Garden                                                                                                    Back

Planting drought tolerant plants is eco-smart - conserve our precious resources and save time and money.  The focus of this garden is on creating a self sustaining landscape with an emphasis on clary sage and lavender plants.  The garden showcases a variety of plant life that live in dry conditions.  Click to view the Drought Tolerant Garden layout we have at Ida Lee: Drought Tolerant flyer

Cacti reaching for the sun Butterflies and Bumble Bees in the Lavender

Plumbago and Pacific Chrysanthemum Clary Sage

Plants in our drought tolerant garden:
Chaste Tree Vitex Catmint Nepeta 
Lavender Lavandula 'Grosso' Stonecrop Sedum 
Yucca Yucca Stonecrop Sedum 'Maestro'
Wild Blue Indigo Baptisia Stonecrop Sedum kamtschaticum
Lead Wort aka Plumbago Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Hardy Yellow Ice Plant Delosperma
Pacific Chrysanthemum Ajania pacifica  Yarrow Achillea
Siberian Iris Iris sibirica Iris Iris
Daylily Hererocallis Zebra Grass Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus' 
Clary Sage Salvia sclarea  Hyssop Agastache 
Stonecrop Sedum 'Autumn Joy' Switchgrass Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'
Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea Zebra Iris Iris pallida 
Dwarf Zebra grass Miscanthus zinensis 'Dwarf Zebrinus' Lamb's Ear Stachys byzantina
Sage Salvia verticillata Candy Tuft Iberis umbellata
Virginia Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum virginianum Boxwood Buxus suffrutucosa
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