If you
don’t want to spend your summer dragging your hose around, there are plants for
hot dry areas. No matter where you live, you are bound to get some long
withering dry spells.
There’s a range of plants to choose from that can stand up to the hot dry
weather. But remember, most drought tolerant plants still need water,
especially when they are young. If you put a layer of organic mulch around the
plants this helps them grow, and you can enjoy them even if rain does not
come!
Adam's
Needle, Color Guard, is a clump forming perennial with yellow stripes down the
middle of the dark green foliage, looking ribbon-like. In the winter months,
the foliage turns pink. The creamy, bell-shaped, white flowers hover over the
foliage and are fragrant. Everything about a yucca is dramatic!
A Sea
Holly is a plant to place in that hot, sunny spot in your landscape! The spiny
flowers and foliage make it a bold accent in your garden. You have several to
choose from but a few are: Blue Glitter, Blue Hobbit, and Jade Frost.
Preferring rich fertile soils, but tolerant in more demanding settings, these
Sea Holly adapt to almost any setting that has well drained soils. They do not
like to be overwatered. Isn’t that great?
Cushion Spurge is a mounding, clump-forming perennial which typically
grows in a dome shape. It has clusters of poinsettia-like flowers, although the
flower cymes are not showy, they are subtended by long-lasting, bright
sulphur-yellow bracts, which cover the plant and provide quite a show. It
produces red fruit in late summer. It may rot in wet or heavy clay
soils.