A List Of Drought Tolerant Plants For Your Home Or GardenDrought tolerant plants do a number of good things for our ecology and even directly for ourselves. For instance having these plants will not only conserve water, but they will also save you time, as you do not need to stand there with hose in hand watering plants. And as our water costs rise, having plants will even save you money! Interestingly enough drought tolerant plants are also apt to be poor soil tolerant too. Thus you will not need to fertilize as often either. In addition, you will save money on humus (composted soil) too, as most drought tolerant plants grow well in sandy soil. --- Water restrictions and rising water costs in many parts of the country are causing all of us to take a second look at our landscaping and consider some changes. Drought tolerant plantings will help you adhere to the water restrictions and will definitely allow you to keep water costs down. There are actually many drought tolerant plants. Scan the lists carefully, and if you are not sure that your area can support certain plants, it’s relatively easy to follow up using the online search engines. Listed for you are fruiting plants, annuals, perennials, ground covers, shrubs and trees. To receive automatic updates whenever changes are made to our site visit our BLOG PAGE today. Fruiting plants Avocado Barbados Cherry Blackberry plant Citrus Edible Fig Guava Loquat Lychee Macadamia Mango Muscadine Grape Pineapple Pomegranate Annuals plants Cosmos Dahlberg Daisy Marigold plant Nasturtium Ornamental Pepper Portulaca Salvia Verbena Perennials, Groundcover and Vines African Iris Amaryllis plant Beach Sunflower Bush Daisy Butterfly Pea Cardboard Plant Chinese Fountain Grass Cone Flower Coontie Coreopsis Dwarf Natal Plum (Carissa) Fakahatchee Grass Gaillardia Gazania Golden Aster Ironweed Lantana plant Muhly Grass Perennial Peanut PorterweedPurple Queen Quailberry Sea Oats Spider Lily Twinflower Allamanda plant Beautyberry Croton Dwarf Poinciana Firebush Firecracker Plant Florida Privet Frangipani Golden Dewdrop Juniper Natal Plum (Carissa) Orange Jasmine Plumbago plant Podocarpus Powderpuff Rusty Lyonia Tarflower Seagrape Simpson Stopper Texas Sage Yaupon Holly Trees American Holly Camphor Chinese Elm Gum (Eucalyptus) Crape Myrtle Jacaranda Live Oak Longleaf Pine Norfolk Island Pine Pigeon Plum Podocarpus Red Cedar Redbay Slash Pine Sweetgum Winged Elm The trick to growing the above plants is to transplant them prior to the rainy season in your area. During their establishment period, you will of course need to hand water them, but eventually your rainy season should take care of keeping them more than sufficiently watered. Another important hint to dealing with drought is to make sure that you mulch your plants. Mulching them helps in a number of ways--it helps to keep the ground cooler and it facilitates your plants to retain moisture. Also try to create a tree canopy, thus creating shade, to prevent other plants from being burned by the hot sun. Lastly, do not expect your plants to be as lush as when you are experiencing a rainy season, nor will various fruiting plants produce as much fruit during a drought. With forethought and care for your plants, you can still have a very nice looking yard embellished by many colorful plants. Top of drought tolerant plants page
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