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A true Transverse and Peninsular Range native that grows wild on rocky chaparral slopes from 3,900 to 7,900 ft — right in our high country.
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A Sierra and Klamath high-country shrub that shrugs off hard mountain winters — among the most cold-tolerant manzanitas there is.
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The most garden-adaptable manzanita there is — glossy green leaves, mahogany bark, and a froth of pink-white winter flowers that hum with early bees.
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One of the toughest plants in the West — a silvery high-desert shrub good to nearly -20°F and 8,000 ft, thriving in lean alkaline soil where little else will.
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A fast, dense gray-green shrub that makes a superb desert screen or windbreak and may attract more birds than anything else you 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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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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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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The rare fragrant penstemon — big balloon-like pale-pink flowers that actually smell sweet, on dramatic tall spikes.
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Spicy-scented golden spring flowers, edible berries that ripen black-red, and brilliant fall color — and it's hardy to -25°F, growing across the mountain West.
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Blooms when almost nothing else does — pendant rose-pink flower clusters from late fall through winter, feeding hummingbirds in the lean season.
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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

