Drought Tolerant Plants

Buy Jubilation™ Gardenia online. Jubilation™ Gardenia is a medium-sized, evergreen, reblooming cultivar that has truly inspired us! It will rebloom starting in summer and continue to produce flowers into the fall season. The creamy-white flowers are double petaled and extremely fragrant. The contrast nicely with the glossy, dark green, evergreen foliage!

Buy Sweet Star® Gardenia online. Sweet Star® Gardenia offers more of what we already crave about gardenia: big, fragrant, abundant flowers that persist well into summer and early fall. Make the addition of pretty orange fruit later in the season on an already nicely rounded, tidy plant and you will easily fall in love!

Buy Pillow Talk® Gardenia online. Pillow Talk® Gardenia is a larger growing hardy gardenia. This dark green, evergreen shrub produces large, highly fragrant, fully double, pure clear white flowers all over it's mounding growth habit. It's a great addition to the sunny landscape and an excellent attractor of pollinators.

Buy Snow Globe™ Gardenia online. It is a compact, low growing evergreen that we find fascinating! It will sporadically rebloom throughout the season. It features single blooming, daisy-like, white flowers that are nestled on top of compact, dark green leaves. It has also shown excellent cold hardiness. Makes an excellent foundation or border plant for sunny locations.

Buy Rosy Jane Wand Flower online. Rosy Jane Wand Flower definitely stands out from other Gaura, as it features a mostly white flower that is bright pink on the edges of each flower. Long, grass-like stems come up from the ground, and it has dark maroon flower buds and green leaves. It is a unique and beautiful perennial that works well in full sun areas.

Buy Siskiyou Pink Wand Flower online. 'Siskiyou Pink' is a clump forming perennial with slender stems bearing spoon-shaped leaves is ideal for hot, dry areas or in a sunny border. Loose, open panicles of pink flowers bloom from summer to frost. Remove spent flowers for continuous bloom.

Buy Whiskers Deep Rose Wand Flower online. Whiskers Deep Rose Wand Flower is a short growing, yet compact cultivar. The flower color, leaf, and stem color enticed us to add this to our selections, as the flowers are deep rose pink that are set at the ends of each graceful "wand" that is covered in burgundy leaves. It's a great butterfly attractor, as well as providing excellent movement and grace into the sunny landscape!

Buy Prairie Smoke online. Prairie Smoke's name is derived from the wispy and wild textured seedheads that this reddish-pink flowering perennial produce. Native to the central and northern United States and into Canada, this Great Plains perennial is slowly getting hard to find. It spreads by rhizomes, and works great when planted in masses in for groundcover.

Buy Cocktail™ Tequila Sunrise Geum online. Cocktail™ Tequila Sunrise Geum is characterized by stunning semi-double yellow-orange colored flowers that appear April through September. These beautiful flowers top medium green leaves on this herbaceous perennial. Perfect for a full sun location!

Buy Goldspire™ Ginkgo online. Goldspire™Ginkgo is a dense and narrowly pyramidal ginkgo. Rich green summer foliage gives way to golden yellows in the fall. A non-fruiting male variety.

Buy Sky Tower™ Ginkgo online. A dense, upright slow growing Ginkgo. Rich green summer leaves change to golden yellow in the fall. Sky Tower™ Ginkgo is a non-fruiting male cultivar.

Also sold as Grindstone Ginkgo.

Buy Princeton Sentry® Ginkgo online. Princeton Sentry® Ginkgo is a fruitless male clone. With its strong central leader, its form is more pyramidal than truly columnar, growing slightly wider than other columnar ginkgos like 'Goldspire' and 'Sky Tower'.

Buy Shangri-La Ginkgo online. Shangri-La Ginkgo is a rounded and upright growing broadleaf, deciduous, conifer that is known to be much more compact growing with better branching than other cultivars that are on the market. Add to that a faster growth habit, and you'll get a fabulous shade tree or specimen in your landscape. Fall color is typical of the species showing off beautiful golden yellow leaves. A fruitless male culitvar.

Buy Espresso™ Kentucky Coffeetree online. The bark of Espresso™ Kentucky Coffeetree is dark brown, characteristically roughened with ridges. Leaf color is pinkish to purple tinged gradually changing to dark green, almost dark bluish green in summer changing to yellow in fall. Seed pods persist throughout the winter and make an interesting silhouette against the sky. Espresso™ Kentucky Coffeetree has a vase-shaped canopy with forest green foliage. Requires full sun, but is otherwise low maintenance.

Buy Skinny Latte™ Kentucky Coffeetree online. This columnar and very upright growing addition to the ChicagolandGrows® collection of plants features a very vertical growth habit and stunningly beautiful canopy. In winter, the structure adds a very interesting character silhouette to the landscape and skyline. Discovered at the Morton Arboretum in the 1950's, this is a unique tree that is very hard to find making it a great addition to any collector's landscape, or those looking to create interesting textures and specimen plantings.

Buy Wedding Bells Silverbell online. Wedding Bells Silverbell is an introduction by the University of Connecticut. This tree was selected due its more compact and smaller growth habit. It also produces a heavier and larger flower set, making it an even better standout in the landscape. An excellent landscape specimen, and definite attractor of pollinators!

Buy Summer Sun False Sunflower online. This carefree perennial puts on a show of semi-double, brilliant gold flowers all summer. This tall perennial has traditionally been used in the middle or back of a flower border. Also great as a cut flower or to attract butterflies!

Buy Bleeding Hearts False Sunflower online. 'Bleeding Hearts' blooms from July until frost with no yellow on its flowers. Flowers bloom a deep orange-red, and turn to golden orange with red centers as they age. Foliage is dark green with black flower stems. A perfect height for the middle or back of the perennial border. Also great as a cut flower and for attracting butterflies.

Buy Bit of Honey False Sunflower online. 'Bit of Honey' has variegated leaves that appear white with deep green veining on a low, dense habit; perfect in the middle of the border or as a stand-alone plant. This variety blooms in mid-summer, lasting into early fall. The flowers have above average size for a Heliopsis and are fully semi-double with multiple rows of golden yellow petals surrounding gold cones.

Buy Wedding Party® Blushing Bridesmaid Lenten Rose online. The Wedding Party® series from Walters Gardens own hybridizer, Hans Hansen, feature double flowered selections of Helleborus. 'Blushing Bridesmaid' is a wonderful member of this series, as she features large, double, multi-colored flowers. The flowers display white centers, with dark pinkish purple striations and the same colored edge of each petal. These flowers can hang downwards as they're produced on the evergreen, dark green leaves in late winter.

Buy Wedding Party® Confetti Cake Lenten Rose online. This shade-loving evergreen has double white flowers with burgundy speckles concentrated at the base of the petals. Bloomsin late winter. Perfect for moist, shady, woodland areas where the extensive root system can grow freely.

Buy Frostkiss® Glenda's Gloss Lenten Rose online. Evergreen leaves are dark green marbled with white lightning-like streaks appear all year on this low to medium-growing shade perennial. In late winter, white flowers appear that have magenta to purple hues near the edge of each petal.

Buy Frostkiss® Molly's White Lenten Rose online. Evergreen leaves are dark green marbled with white lightning-like streaks appear all year on this low to medium growing shade perennial. In late winter, white flowers appear with green centers, creating a very unique appearance in the shady landscape!

Buy Honeymoon® French Kiss Lenten Rose online. This shade-loving evergreen has single white blooms lined with raspberry pink that veins in toward the center of the flower. Blooms in late winter heading into early spring. Perfect for moist, woodland areas where its root system will expand as far as it can.

Buy Honeymoon® Irish Luck Lenten Rose online. The Honeymoon® series of lenten roses showcase Walters Gardens own hybridizer, Hans Hansen's single flowered selections of Helleborus. 'Irish Luck' features single green flowers with a dark purple to burgundy center to each flower. These rest on top of evergreen, dark green leaves in late winter.

Buy Wedding Party® Mother of the Bride Lenten Rose online. This shade-loving evergreen has double peachy yellow flowers with a light pink picotee edge. Blooms in late winter. Perfect for moist, shady, woodland areas where the extensive root system can grow freely.

Buy Onyx Odyssey Winter Jewels™ Lenten Rose online. Will take you on a dark voyage into the world of double slate, purple and black flowers. Long lasting bloom color, which doesn't fade to green, makes this strain a better value in the retail store. One of the world's top hybridizers, Marietta O'Byrne has created this wonderful strain. A delight in the winter garden. Shade and deer resistant!

Buy Frostkiss® Pippa's Purple Lenten Rose online. This amazing lenten rose piqued our interest as it features variegated foliage that has dark green margins with silver centers. Flowering in winter, dark purple flowers appear over the top of the evergreen leaves, giving this shade-loving perennial year round interest. This is not your typical Helleborus, and a must-have for collectors!

Buy Honeymoon® Romantic Getaway Lenten Rose online. This shade-loving evergreen has single white flowers with dramatic, plum-red, patterned centers. Blooms during late winter. Perfect for moist, shady, woodland areas.

Buy Honeymoon® Sandy Shores Lenten Rose online. This shade-loving evergreen has single pale apricot blooms with rosy pink on the backs of the petals. Beautiful burgundy lights up the base of the petals. Perfect for moist, shady, woodland areas where the root system can grow undisturbed.

Buy Honeymoon® Spanish Flare Lenten Rose online. The Honeymoon® series of lenten roses showcase Walters Gardens own hybridizer, Hans Hansen's single-flowered selections of Helleborus. 'Spanish Flare' features single, light yellow flowers that have dark red to maroon centers. This is definitely a unique color pattern, and a must-have for collectors of hellebores!