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A handsome, adaptable evergreen with berries that shift from green to red to black — a moveable feast for birds.
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Slender bright-green stems form dense, upright colonies in wet soil — perfect for pond margins, rain gardens, and the moist low spots most natives won't tolerat
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A magnificent fountain of fine green foliage topped by tall, golden seed plumes that catch low autumn light.
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A fast, nitrogen-fixing pioneer that colonizes raw and burned ground, feeding native bees and serving as a key butterfly host plant.
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A nearly indestructible bright-green desert shrub for the hottest, driest, most neglected corners of a low-desert or foothill garden.
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Tall spikes of rosy-pink trumpets above blue-gray clasping leaves — a desert-mountain native of the SoCal ranges, hardy through Zones 5–9.
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A fountain of silvery, fine-toothed straps radiating from a low trunk — a sculptural high-desert evergreen that's far hardier than it looks, taking cold to ~-5°
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Not a true willow but a desert show-stopper — orchid-like pink-lavender trumpets all summer that hummingbirds can't resist, on a fast, airy small tree.
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Aromatic silver-backed foliage releases a clean, sage-like scent when brushed.
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One of the very best evergreen groundcovers for dry shade under oaks — glossy aromatic leaves on burgundy stems that smell of wine after rain, with rose-red lat
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Brilliant scarlet tubular spikes that hummingbirds chase, and far more cold-hardy than Scarlet Bugler — it grows wild to 8,000 ft and beyond in the Great Basin.
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Our namesake, and a showstopper — a spring avalanche of large waxy golden flowers against fuzzy lobed leaves.

