Drought-tolerant Plants
The following plants for their ability to withstand drough, sandy soil, full sun, and ocean winds:
- Acacia pendila (weeping acacia): beautiful weeping tree with interesting structure. Native to Australia. Bears yellow flowers in spring.
- Centranthus ruber (Jupiter`s beard): Perennial with rose-colored flowers in spring and summer.
- Convolvulus mauritanius (ground morning-glory): Trailling shrub with soft gray-green foliage and lavender-blue flowers. Useful on banks and cascading ove walls.
- Erigeron karvinskianus (Santa Barbara daisy): Spreding herbaceous perennial with pink and white daisylike flowers.
- Felicia amelloides (blue Marguerite): Shrubby perennial with bright blue flowers. Needs constant deadheading; almost always in bloom.
- Geranium cordifolia (ture geranium): Finely cut foliage with 1-inch purple flowers. Invasive.
- Hemerocallis `My Little Sunshine`: Fibrous-rooted 10-inch-tall daylily. Yellow flowers in summer and fall.
- Iris `Victoria Falls`: Bulbous perennial with exquisite purple-blue flowers in spring.
- Lavandula dentata (French lavender): Fragrant woody perennial. Lavender flower spikes bloom during most of the year.
- Lavatera bicolor (mallow): Native California shrub with large roselike flowers through most of the year.
- Limonium perezii (sea lavender or statice): Mediterranian native. Paperly blue or white flowers bloom continually in spring and summer.
- Nandina domestica (heavenly bamboo): Evergreen shrub with attractive foliage color and structure.
- Nierembergia fruticosa (cupflower): Finely cut gray-green foliage; white, single cuplike flowers.
- Oregano `Santa Cruz`: Culinary herb. Lilac-pink flowers bloom in spring and summer.
- Penstemon `Evelyn`: Perennial with small pink tubular flowers in summer.
- Salvia leucantha (Mexican sage): Large shrub perennial. Gray leaves, velvety magenta racemens are much loved by hummingbirds.
- Sisyrinchum bellum (blue-eyed grass): Blue flowers bloom in late spring and early summer.
- Verbena bonariensis: Tall perennial has purple flowers in summer. Useful as accent in border.
- Yucca gloriosa (spanish dagger): Evergreen shrub native to North America. It has late-summer blooms and a striking silhouette.
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