Drought Tolerant Plants

This hardy evergreen shrub has long-blooming white flowers and responds well to pruning.

An easy-care plant with long-blooming pinkish flowers all season.

This low-maintenance shrub is true to name creating a stunning display in the landscape.

An easy-care shrub with attractive orange and pink tints during the fall.

This is a dense lower-growing form of Abelia with good leaf retention during the winter.

A brightly colored plant that grows best in part shade.  Slow growth habit.

An easy-to-grow, medium-sized tree adaptable to a wide range of growing conditions.

An easy-to-grow, medium-sized tree adaptable to a wide range of growing conditions. Red, Yellow, and orange fall color.

Great tree for urban environments. Has an upright branching form.

A small tree or large shrub with a broadly horizontal growth habit.

Fall color becomes more brilliant as time goes.

A distinctly upright and fast growing shade tree.  An excellent choice for a narrow area.  Yellow to orange yellow fall color.

A fast-growing shade tree with outstanding red foliage in the fall. Well adapted to the heat of the southeast and has the best red fall color of any of the maples

This Agapanthus shoots up a tall, blue flowering spike.

A small native tree with beautiful white flowers in the early spring.  A slow to moderate grower with yellow to orange to red foliage in the fall.

This native is the result of a cross between arborea and laevis.  Nice growth habit, white flowers in the spring followed by red foliage in the fall.

Great choice for shady areas.  Clumping plant can add interesting texture to a planting

Vibrant pink blooms adorn this medium sized Azalea.

This Glenn Dale hybrid is semi-dwarf with salmon-pink flowers.

Azaleas prefer acidic soil and partial shade conditions. If pruning is necessary, do so after flowering.

Larger growing Azalea variety with white ruffled flowers that blooms mid-season.

Azalea prefers acidic soil and partial shade conditions. If pruning needed do so right after the flowers are spent.

Autumn Sunburst is a prolific bloomer with flowers that are coral-pink with white ruffled edges.

Autumn Sundance's deep pink flowers contrast well with the green foliage. In the winter Sundance still holds interest with its reddish green foliage.

Striking yellow foliage from this Barberry can liven up any border or foundation planting.

Crimson foliage along with a low mounding growth habit make this plant useful in any landscape.  Plant in sun for best color.

Dense, mounding shrub distinguished by its unusual texture.

Attractive red foliage that darkens during the winter, distinguishes this semi-evergreen barberry.  Shrub will retain most of the foliage during winter if protected from winter winds.

Compact ornamental grass that provides cool-season interest with its flower heads that persist through the winter.

Dark purple flowers accent a background of green foliage on this large, flowering plant. Will bloom continuously through the summer if spent flowers are removed.

Dark lavender flowers on a moderate growing Butterfly Bush with finer-textured foliage. A good choice for summer long interest in the landscape.

Easy-grow, cold-hardy form of small-leaf boxwood with compact growth habit.

Dark green foliage distinguishes this classic shrub, often used in formal plantings.

Distinctly upright growth habit makes this a good choice for any narrow space in the landscape.

Hardy boxwood with dense, pyramid habit. Great for specimen planting.

A versatile ornamental grass with purplish plumes and deep green foliage. 

Purple berries in the fall make this native plant a showpiece in the landscape.  Easy to grow and drought tolerant.

Blue Zinger Carex has. as the name implies, blue-green, grass-like foliage that forms dense clumps.

Widely used in city landscapes  because of its resistance to insects and diseases.  Upright growth habit when young, but does broaden some with age.

This popular plant has blue flowers that accents gray-green foliage late in the spring season.

A small to medium sized deciduous shrub with fragrant white flowers. Useful for native plantings and shrub borders.

Slightly slower-growing than the species, this cultivar has pleasing blue-green foliage.

The upright growth habit and its fine needle-like texture makes this a good choice to add interest to the landscape.

McCorkle is a vase shaped, dense habit Plum Yew. Moderate growth rate.

Interesting texture makes this low-growing plant stand out in any planting.  

Perennial flowering ground cover

Fast growing Japanese Cedar with dark evergreen foliage and pyramidal habit.

Beautiful silver blue foliage, more finely textured than Blue Ice.  Prefers it hot and dry.