Drought-Tolerant Gardening

Gardening in a drought is possible with drought-tolerant plants and our tips for gardening in low-water areas.
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Prized for its thick, round, paddle-shaped succulent foliage, with a chalky blue-green color and red tinge that intensifies in full sun. Clusters of yellow flowers on spikes appear on mature plants. Provides dramatic color and texture in rock gardens or xeriscapes. Easily grown in containers, indoors or out. A frost-tender evergreen.
This tough, durable, drought-resistant perennial provides vibrant color unlike any other with clusters of fuzzy flowers in purple and peacock-blue. An excellent, long-lasting cut flower. Great for adding color and texture to borders and containers. Evergreen Anigozanthos 'Mardi Gras' PPAF
Arabian Lilac makes a statement in your garden with it's showy foliage (green topside with purple undersides).

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Container gardening just got easier with our simple combos for creative designs, plus easy-care succulents that stand up to summer heat. Skip the watering and start enjoying your patio with colorful containers of drought-tolerant plants! Gardening, Summer, Container Gardening, Planting Succulents, Succulent Pots, Succulents In Containers, Watering, Drought Tolerant Plants, Drought Tolerant
Succulent Container Ideas
Container gardening just got easier with our simple combos for creative designs, plus easy-care succulents that stand up to summer heat. Skip the watering and start enjoying your patio with colorful containers of drought-tolerant plants!
Learn more about the drought tolerant plants we chose to be more water conscious in our garden. Gardens, Texas, Design, Garden Design, Drought Tolerant Garden, Drought
Drought-Tolerant Cottage Garden Design
Learn more about the drought tolerant plants we chose to be more water conscious in our garden.
If you tend to forget to water and fertilize your houseplants, an indoor succulent collection is for you! Succulents are perfect for dry, sunny conditions indoors and out. Succulents need fast-draining soil (look for cactus soil mix) and bright light to grow happily indoors. See our favorite varieties for success with growing succulents indoors. Cactus, Succulent Soil, Growing Succulents, Growing Indoors, Succulents Indoor, Potting Soil, Indoor Plants
Succulents to grow indoors
If you tend to forget to water and fertilize your houseplants, an indoor succulent collection is for you! Succulents are perfect for dry, sunny conditions indoors and out. Succulents need fast-draining soil (look for cactus soil mix) and bright light to grow happily indoors. See our favorite varieties for success with growing succulents indoors.
Your favorite gardens of the year! Our Grow Beautifully subscribers voted for their top picks from landscape designs featured on Monrovia's Be Inspired blog. Here's your choice for best pathway in a garden design. This vibrant and drought-tolerant pathway planting was part of designer Tish Treherne's (Bliss Garden Design) no-lawn landscape transformation. Voters loved the variety of plants in this design and how the colors and textures worked together to create an inviting pathway. Garden Pathway, Drought Tolerant Perennials, Lawn And Landscape
Inspired Garden Design: Favorite Pathway of the Year
Your favorite gardens of the year! Our Grow Beautifully subscribers voted for their top picks from landscape designs featured on Monrovia's Be Inspired blog. Here's your choice for best pathway in a garden design. This vibrant and drought-tolerant pathway planting was part of designer Tish Treherne's (Bliss Garden Design) no-lawn landscape transformation. Voters loved the variety of plants in this design and how the colors and textures worked together to create an inviting pathway.
Prized for its thick, round, paddle-shaped succulent foliage, with a chalky blue-green color and red tinge that intensifies in full sun. Clusters of yellow flowers on spikes appear on mature plants. Provides dramatic color and texture in rock gardens or xeriscapes. Easily grown in containers, indoors or out. A frost-tender evergreen. Plants, Art, Arizona Gardening, Wildflower Garden, Desert Rose, Monrovia Plants, Rare Succulents
Desert Rose Paddle Plant
Prized for its thick, round, paddle-shaped succulent foliage, with a chalky blue-green color and red tinge that intensifies in full sun. Clusters of yellow flowers on spikes appear on mature plants. Provides dramatic color and texture in rock gardens or xeriscapes. Easily grown in containers, indoors or out. A frost-tender evergreen.
Fan-shaped purple, blue, and green flowers on tall fuzzy stems Kangaroo, Outdoor, Mardi Gras, Mardi, Kangaroo Paw, Sun And Water, Paw, Flower Spike, Gras
Celebrations™ Mardi Gras Kangaroo Paw
This tough, durable, drought-resistant perennial provides vibrant color unlike any other with clusters of fuzzy flowers in purple and peacock-blue. An excellent, long-lasting cut flower. Great for adding color and texture to borders and containers. Evergreen Anigozanthos 'Mardi Gras' PPAF
Go lawn free and use less water in your landscape! Try these tips and plants for beautiful drought-tolerant alternatives to turfgrass. Drought Tolerant Landscape Design, Drought Tolerant Landscape, Drought Tolerant Landscape Front Yard, Drought Tolerant Grass, Low Water Landscaping
Lawn-free, low-water landscape ideas
Go lawn free and use less water in your landscape! Try these tips and plants for beautiful drought-tolerant alternatives to turfgrass.
Bold, beautiful & drought-tolerant plants
Get big color and strong forms from low-water plant choices.
Go lawn-free with low-water landscape choices for a more drought-tolerant garden. See how one pro turned a traditional landscape into a lush and lovely sustainable meadow garden.
Lawn-free, Low-Water Alternatives
Go lawn-free with low-water landscape choices for a more drought-tolerant garden. See how one pro turned a traditional landscape into a lush and lovely sustainable meadow garden.
Kniphofia 'TNKNIPY' PP #27,616 SKU 44859 Lemon-yellow, nectar-filled blooms will delight people and hummingbirds alike all summer and into fall. Shorter than a classic Red Hot Poker, this compact variety is perfect for containers or smaller gardens. Grass-like foliage remains neat all summer. Herbaceous perennial. USDA Zone 6-9 Summer Plants, Hummingbirds, Compact, People, Perennial, Hummingbird Garden
Poco™ Yellow Hot Poker
Kniphofia 'TNKNIPY' PP #27,616 SKU 44859 Lemon-yellow, nectar-filled blooms will delight people and hummingbirds alike all summer and into fall. Shorter than a classic Red Hot Poker, this compact variety is perfect for containers or smaller gardens. Grass-like foliage remains neat all summer. Herbaceous perennial. USDA Zone 6-9
Arabian Lilac makes a statement in your garden with it's showy foliage (green topside with purple undersides). Planting Flowers, Desert Plants, Shrubs, Florida Trees, Deciduous Trees, Lilac Gardening, Lilac Tree
Arabian Lilac
Arabian Lilac makes a statement in your garden with it's showy foliage (green topside with purple undersides).
Arp Rosemary combines beauty with taste! More cold hardy than most and produces blue flowers. Herbs, Rosemary, Growing Rosemary, Planting Herbs, Growing Herbs, Flower Garden
Arp Rosemary
Arp Rosemary combines beauty with taste! More cold hardy than most and produces blue flowers.
Autumn Joy Stonecrop is a cold hardy perennial with plate-like flower clusters. Hardy Perennials, Full Sun Perennials, Sedum Garden, Flowering Succulents, Garden Styles, Border Plants, Cottage Garden, Front Garden
Autumn Joy Sedum
Autumn Joy Stonecrop is a cold hardy perennial with plate-like flower clusters.
Ideas to save water and effort. Contemporary Landscape by Derviss Design Shaded Garden, Garden Planning, Garden Paths, Garden Landscaping, Garden Inspiration, Tropical Landscaping, Garden Stones
Ideas to save water and effort. Contemporary Landscape by Derviss Design
Brepo® Austrian Pine makes a perfect evergreen foundation planting. Well suited to shrub borders, along fence lines and in plantings that divide properties. Trees, Austrian Pine, Pine, Heuchera, Asian Garden, Dwarf, Xeriscape Plants
Brepo® Austrian Pine
Brepo® Austrian Pine makes a perfect evergreen foundation planting. Well suited to shrub borders, along fence lines and in plantings that divide properties.
Cousin Itt Little River Wattle is a fast growing shrub with beautiful finely textured blue green weeping foliage. Fast Growing Shrubs, Dry Garden, Garden Shrubs, Front Yard Plants, Landscaping With Rocks
Cousin Itt Acacia
Cousin Itt Little River Wattle is a fast growing shrub with beautiful finely textured blue green weeping foliage.
Oertel's Rose Yarrow is the perfect plant for herb gardens due to its aromatic foliage and everlasting flowers. Pair this beauty with other Mediterranean plants like Little Ollie Dwarf Olive, Arp Rosemary and Black Flowering Fountain Grass. Pink, Yarrow, Perennial Border, California Poppy, Perfect Plants, Fountain Grass
Oertel's Rose Yarrow
Oertel's Rose Yarrow is the perfect plant for herb gardens due to its aromatic foliage and everlasting flowers. Pair this beauty with other Mediterranean plants like Little Ollie Dwarf Olive, Arp Rosemary and Black Flowering Fountain Grass.
Torch Glow is not your normal bougainvillea. This unique shrubby grower blooms atop upright branches. Orchards, Arizona Plants, Agaves, Cactus Garden, Botanica
Torch Glow Bougainvillea
Torch Glow is not your normal bougainvillea. This unique shrubby grower blooms atop upright branches.
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar creates a fantastic, dramatic form in the landscape. Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar, Evergreen Plants, Blue Atlas Cedar, Evergreen, Oak
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar creates a fantastic, dramatic form in the landscape.
Top 50 water-wise plants | Spanish lavender | Sunset.com Lavender Plant, Purple Perennials, Growing Lavender, Flowers Perennials, Best Perennials, Perennial Garden, Lavender
Dozens of Water-Wise Plants That Go Way Beyond Succulents - Sunset
Top 50 water-wise plants | Spanish lavender | Sunset.com
Dwarf Bottlebrush - Blood red blooms cover the top of this dwarf grower for an extended season. Dense branches are covered with blue-green leaves. Versatile compact size is perfect for today's smaller gardens. Evergreen. Tropical Flowers, Seeds, Ideas, Nature, Native Garden
Little John Dwarf Bottlebrush
Dwarf Bottlebrush - Blood red blooms cover the top of this dwarf grower for an extended season. Dense branches are covered with blue-green leaves. Versatile compact size is perfect for today's smaller gardens. Evergreen.
Dwarf Bottlebrush - Blood red blooms cover the top of this dwarf grower for an extended season. Dense branches are covered with blue-green leaves. Versatile compact size is perfect for today's smaller gardens. Evergreen. Play, Dwarf Shrubs, Dwarf Evergreen Shrubs, Bottlebrush Plant, Bottle Brush Trees, Bottle Garden
Little John Dwarf Bottlebrush
Dwarf Bottlebrush - Blood red blooms cover the top of this dwarf grower for an extended season. Dense branches are covered with blue-green leaves. Versatile compact size is perfect for today's smaller gardens. Evergreen.
Brakelights® Red Yucca. Perfect Plant for a Water-Wise Garden Videos, Yucca, Waterwise Garden, Hummingbird Habitat, Cactus And Succulents
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Brakelights® Red Yucca. Perfect Plant for a Water-Wise Garden
Scarlet Torch™ is a hummingbird magnet Hummingbird Plants, Butterfly Garden, Arborist, Flowering Trees
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Scarlet Torch™ is a hummingbird magnet
Barbara Karst Bougainvillea - Vigorous, showy vine shines with bright magenta red blooms. Gives a fine cover to patios or arbors. Also a good groundcover for banks. Drought tolerant when established. Use as annual color in colder climates. Evergreen. #LetsGarden Flowers, Begonia, Bloom, Flores, Vines
Barbara Karst Bougainvillea
Barbara Karst Bougainvillea - Vigorous, showy vine shines with bright magenta red blooms. Gives a fine cover to patios or arbors. Also a good groundcover for banks. Drought tolerant when established. Use as annual color in colder climates. Evergreen. #LetsGarden
American Red Bush Lantana - Profuse red and yellow color year-round! Useful as substitute for annuals in flower beds or containers. Excellent low hedge or accent shrub. Tolerates heat, drought. #LetsGarden Michigan, Ground Cover, Lantana Camara, Lawn Fertilizer, Yards, Hillside Landscaping
American Red Bush Lantana
American Red Bush Lantana - Profuse red and yellow color year-round! Useful as substitute for annuals in flower beds or containers. Excellent low hedge or accent shrub. Tolerates heat, drought. #LetsGarden
Paprika Common Yarrow: Outstanding performer in hot, dry areas with poor soil. Zone 3 Growing Flowers, Flowering Plants, How To Attract Birds
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Paprika Common Yarrow: Outstanding performer in hot, dry areas with poor soil. Zone 3
Acapulco™ Trio Hummingbird Mint is a showy, compact perennial with bright flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Waterwise and showy! Acapulco, Diy, Sun Garden, Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds, Clematis Jackmanii, Flower Oasis
Hummingbird Summersweet
Acapulco™ Trio Hummingbird Mint is a showy, compact perennial with bright flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Waterwise and showy!