Low Water Use Plants

Buy Snow Fairy Bluebeard online. Is soft textured, with feathery, white and green variegated foliage, great for brightening up the spring and summer garden. Its leaves are edged white all season followed by a late summer bloom of gentle blue. It's an easy and undemanding plant.

Buy Sunshine Blue® II Bluebeard online. Sunshine Blue® II Bluebeard is an improved variety of the classic Sunshine Blue® Bluebeard, but it's much more tolerant of cold climates. If you've had trouble with bluebeard surviving winter in your area in the past, now's your chance to enjoy the vivid gold foliage and blue blooms of this late blooming favorite. An excellent plant for attracting pollinators!

Buy Dark Knight Bluebeard online. This deciduous shrub will grow into a grey-green mound. The deep purple flowers can be enjoyed from July to frost. This is a great choice for attracting butterflies and other pollinators.

Buy Blue Empire™ Bluebeard online. North Creek Nursery states that "this stunning Caryopteris is big, blue & beautiful!" Beautiful blue flowers are produced on this shrub in late summer on top of a compact growth habit and blue-green leaves. More compact than other cultivars, but larger flowers make this a great specimen plant or planted in large groups for color and pollinator attracting!

Buy Blue Atlas Cedar online. Definite specimen use, this tree makes a statement all by itself, With powder blue, somewhat silver needles and a pyramidal shape when young, becoming flat-topped with horizontal spreading branching when older.

Buy Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar (Serpentine) online. It is an evergreen conifer with drooping twisted branches filled with powdery blue needles that are sure to catch the eye of every passerby. The serpentine from means that this has been trained to zig zag back and forth for that unique appearance in your landscape.

Buy Deodar Cedar online. Graceful, pendulous, dense habit with horizontal branching and bluish green needles. The foliage contrasts nicely against the gray-brown bark.

Buy Divinely Blue Deodar Cedar online. Has a graceful, pendulous, dense habit with horizontal branching and bluish green needles. The foliage contrasts nicely against the gray-brown bark.

Buy Feelin' Blue Weeping Deodar Cedar online. Feelin' Blue Weeping Deodar Cedar is a low-growing evergreen that is perfect for rock gardens and retaining walls. It can be staked to add height or let it grow low on its own to for a beautiful low growing screen of vibrant blue and green foliage.

Buy Karl Fuchs Deodar Cedar online. This large growing selection of cedar has attractive silvery blue foliage. Has a dense, pendulous habit with layered horizontal branching with nodding tips. This hardy cultivar is known for its trailing leader and soft, graceful appearance.

Buy Twisted Weeper Deodar Cedar online. This deodar cedar is a low-growing evergreen that is perfect for rock gardens and retaining walls. It can be staked to add height or let it grow low on its own to for a beautiful low growing screen of vibrant blue and green foliage.

Buy Prairie Sentinel® Hackberry online. Formerly known as Iron Tower Hackberry. This selection of native hackberry has the same tolerance to adverse environmental conditions and with its slimmer frame makes an excellent street tree. Tolerant of drought and compacted soils, and therefore, successful in the most demanding landscapes.

Buy Northern Hackberry online. Is a large, deciduous tree with uniformly, rounded growth habit, green leaves turn yellow in fall with small red and black berries. An excellent landscape choice for large open areas.

Buy Blue Plumbago online. Low growing spreading groundcover. Luscious shiny green foliage turns bronze-red in fall. Deep blue flowers appear in late summer and persist until frost. Blue Plumbago is a very drought tolerant perennial.

Buy Cream Ball Sawara False Cypress online. The unique color of the compact 'Cream Ball' is neither white nor yellow, but more a rich shade of cream, that will complement many landscapes. A close look at the foliage shows that a range of colors and textures, including bluish needles and green scales that are tipped with blonde, contribute to the glowing effect. The well-mannered, easy-to-grow conifer maintains a uniform globe shape without shearing and makes a dressy accent or, lined up, an attractive border edge.

Buy Bubba Jones Desert Willow online. This introduction into the Bubba series of desert willows features clear pink fragrant flowers that hang in clusters from the ends of the branches in mid to late summer. Its leaves are glossy green, and feathery in appearance. It is an extremely drought tolerant tree and cold hardy. It makes a great specimen planting, as well as providing a great food source for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds!

Buy Paradise Desert Willow online. Paradise Desert Willow is a great find by acclaimed Oklahoma nurseryman, Steve Bieberich. It is a large growing sport of C. linearis and features great cold hardiness and fragrant pink flowers. It serves well as a drought tolerant native plant.

Buy Morning Cloud Chitalpa online. This fast growing, medium-sized tree can withstand nearly drought conditions. The beautiful white flowers with purple throats that appear in late spring and persist throughout the summer.

Buy El Niño™ Chitalpa online. El Niño™ Chitalpa is yet another amazing introduction by Dr. Tom Ranney from North Carolina State University! This hybrid tree features dark purple flowers that produced on the ends of the branches in late spring to early summer. Long and thin leaves appear in early spring. This plant's true claim to fame? It's one of the few dwarf cultivars of Chitalpa. Perfect for small, sunny spaces as a specimen!

Buy Blue Mistflower online. This native wildflower is known by several names including Blue Mistflower, Wild Ageratum and Hardy Ageratum. In late summer to early fall, it will produce light blue to lavender fuzzy flowers that are produced in groups at the end of each stem. It spreads by rhizomes, and works great in places needing large amounts of ground cover or to help prevent erosion.