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Plants that are resistant or tolerant of drought

Ok, here are some lists of native plants that can live with no extra water after the first summer. That is, REALLY drought tolerant or drought resistant plants for a California garden. A landscape can look good and use little or no water.

We've planted many landscape gardens in winter with no watering system and no water after watering the plants in at planting. Watering once every week or two for 10 minutes generally makes a landscape look a lot better in late summer and renders most of the plants more fire proof than 'normal' plants.

You can use many more native plants for each area but you'll need to add a little more winter/spring water to see a larger list, BUT, the plants will not be as drought tolerant.

To play with your individual list, go to www.mynativeplants.com

Drought resistant plants for a Bay Area Garden

Drought resistant plants for a Encinitas landscape garden

Drought resistant plants for a Long Beach landscape garden

Drought resistant plants for a Los Angeles area landscape garden

Drought resistant plants for an Oakland garden

Drought tolerant plants for a Poway landscape Garden

Drought resistant plants for San Diego landscape gardens

Drought in San Jose landscape gardens?

Drought resistant San Luis Obispo landscape gardens

Drougth resistant Santa Barbara landscape gardens

Drought resistant plants for_a Santa Monica landscape garden

Drought tolerant Thousand Oak gardens

Drought resistant plants for a Ventura or Oxnard landscape garden

Drought resistant plants for a Vista or San Marcos landscape garden

Drought resistant plants for a Yorba Linda landscape garden

What and why, drought resistant plant, drought tolerant plant

Ceanothus oliganthus makes many of the hillsides blue in spring from Banning to Poway. Drought tolerant to about 6 inches of rainfall, this photo was taken after two 8 inch rainfall years, with our summer heat. - grid24_12
A young Anna Hummingbird on Salvia Alpine, Cleveland Sage. Cleveland Sage is drought resistant and can look good with 7-8 inches of rainfall. Your native garden needs very little water in a drought  to  look and smell good. Tolerant of much abuse. - grid24_12
Sphaeralcea ambigua, Desert Mallow mixed with Ceanothus and Dendromecon. Desert Mallow can live on 3-4 inches of rainfall and is drought tolerant as Barstow. - grid24_12
Penstemon spectabilis, Showy Penstemon, with an Anna Hummingbird. Showy Penstemon will tolerate  drought for years.  In the Bay area resist watering much after first summer. - grid24_12
Eriogonum arborescens, Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat makes a nice 2-3 ft. bush. In Santa Barbara or Los Angeles it is very drought tolerant and should be fine with no irrigation after first season. - grid24_12
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