The Year in the Life of a Dry Garden, May 13, 2015
Pat Hayward, Executive Director
Plant List
Spring - Yellows & Blues
Colorado Gold® gazania (Gazania linearis ‘P004S’)
Filigree daisy (Anthemis marschalliana)
Silver Blade® evening primrose (Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. incana)
Golden storksbill (Erodium chrysanthum)
Kannah Creek® buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum ‘Psdowns’
Partridge feather (Tanacetum densum Amani) & Turkish veronica (V. liwanensis)
Little Trudy® catmint (Nepeta ‘Psfike’)
Jones’ desert bluestar (Amsonia jonesii)
Engelmann’s daisy (Engelmannia peristenia) and Allium azureum
Silvers
Silverheels horehound (Marrubium rotundifolium)
Sea Foam sage, Arctic Snow mullein, fall crocus
Summer
Prairie Jewel® penstemon (Penstemon grandiflorus ‘P010S’) with Mexican feather grass
Mojave sage (Salvia pachyphylla) with Bridges’ penstemon
Bridges’ penstemon (Penstemon rostriflorus)
Sunset® foxglove (Digitalis obscura)
Vermilion Bluffs® Mexican sage (Salvia darcyi ‘Pscarl’)
Windwalker® royal red salvia (Salvia darcyi x S. microphylla)
Wild Thing sage (Salvia greggii ‘Wild Thing’)
Sunset hyssop (Agastache rupestris)
Royal Purple smokebush & Coral Canyon ® twinspur (Diascia integerrima ‘P009S’)
Fall & Winter - Broadleaf Evergreens
Mock Bearberry manzanita (Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis)
Panchito manzanita (Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Panchito’)
Chieftain manzanita (Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Chieftain’)
Fall & Winter - Succulents
Parry’s agave (Agave parryi v. neomexicana)
Banana yucca (Yucca baccata)
Claret cup (Echinocereus triglochidiatus)
Fall & Winter – Ornamental Grasses
Blonde Ambition blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’)
Undaunted® ruby muhly (Muhlenbergia reverchonii ‘PUND01S’)
Giant sacaton (Sporobolus wrightii)
Fall & Winter – Trees
Wafer ash (Ptelea trifoliata)
Wasatch maple (Acer grandidentatum)
Carol Mackie Daphne (Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’)
Globe Siberian peashrub (Caragana frutex ‘Globosa’)
Baby blue rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus v. nauseosus)
Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus)
Rock spirea (Holodiscus dumosus)
Curl leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius)
Conifers
Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica glabra ‘Cooke’s Peak’)
Acrocona Norway spruce (Picea abies ‘Acrocona’)
Dwarf Norway spruce (Picea abies ‘Mucronata’)
Hedgehog spruce (Picea glauca ‘Echiniformis’)
Weeping white spruce (Picea glauca ‘Pendula’)
Baby Blue Colorado spruce (Picea pungens ‘Baby Blue’)
Sherwood Compact bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata ‘Sherwood Compact’)
Lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana)
Taylor’s Sunburst lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ‘Taylor’s Sunburst’)
Dwarf pinyon pine (Pinus edulis ‘Farmy’, ‘Trinidad’ and others)
Pinus mugo ‘Mops’
Pinus mugo ‘Valley Cushion’
Pinus mugo ‘Big Tuna’
Dwarf Austrian pine (Pinus nigra ‘Hornibrookiana’)
Sester’s Dwarf spruce and Hornibrook dwarf Austrian pine
Dwarf ponderosa pine (seedling)
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