My Drought Tolerant Favorites

Silver Color

Artemesia ‘Powis Castle’
Convolvulous – Bush Morning Glory
Cerastium – Snow in Summer
Sontolina – chamaecyparis
Lavender – all types
Stachys – Lamb’s Ear
Grevillea ‘Penola’


Non-deciduous shrubs

Cistus – Rock Rose
Helianthemum – Sunrose
Hemerocallis – Day Lily (there are evergreen varieties)
Zauschernia – California Fuschia
Correa – Australian Fuschia
Coleonema – all types
Pittosporum – all types
Dietes – Fortnight lily
Rosemary


Grasses

Pennisetum ‘Rubrum’
Pennisetum ‘Hamlin or Little Bunny’
Miscanthus
Helictotrchon – Blue Oat grass
Blue Fescue
Carex – sedge
Muhenbergia rigens – deer grass


Perennial Color

Coreopsis – all types
Shasta Daisy
Echinacea – Purple Cone Flower
Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
Achillea – Yarrow
Gaillardia
Gaura
Nepeta – Catmint
Perovska – Russian Sage
Salvia – ‘Hot lips’ ‘Maynight’, etc.
Knipfofia – red Hot Poker
Anigothanzthus – Kangaroo Paws
Plumbago
Ground Cover Roses

Aloe
Erigeron – Santa Barbara Daisy
Lantana
Brachycome – Swan River Daisy
Felicia
Aster

Ground Cover

Delosperma – ice plant
Thymus
Gazania
Erigeron
Rosemary
Verbena

Ground Cover Rose
Myporum
Juniperus ‘Wiltonii’