A water-wise landscape is designed and maintained according to basic horticultural principles that allow for a healthy landscape with minimal supplemental watering. Selecting trees, shrubs, perennials and groundcovers based on their adaptability to Colorado’s soil and semi-arid climate will reduce water-work for you, and add sustainable beauty to your yard.
Here are some suggestions for water-wise plants, perfect for Colorado:
- Basket-of-Gold
- Amur Maple
- Black-eyed Susan
- Blue Mist Spirea
- Blue Oat Grass
- Candytuft
- Catmint
- Coreopsis
- Creeping Periwinkle
- Crimson Pygmy Barberry
- Dark Knight Butterfly Bush
- Daylily
- Evening Primrose
- Feather Reed Grass
- First Love Dianthus
- Marshall’s Seedless Ash
- Pine-Leaf Penstemon
- Ponderous Pine
- Prairie Sky Switch Grass
- Purple Coneflower
- Purple Mountain Sun Daisy
- Red Rocks Penstemon
- Red Switch Grass
- Rock Spirea
- Rose Glow Barbarry
- Russian Sage
- Shasta Daisy
- Snow Daisy
- Snow-in-Summer
- Sunset Hyssop
- Thornless Hawthorne
- Whirling Butterflies
- White Bud Mugo Pine
- Winecups
- Zebra Grass
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