Drought Tolerant Archives - Van Wilgen's Garden Center

Color Guard Yucca

Sword-like evergreen leaves add loads of texture to the landscape along with great color as it foliage is accented with a bright band of gold down the center of each […]

A welcome shot of color in the landscape, this tough, drought tolerant selection demands attention with strap-like, long, green foliage illuminated by creamy white striping along its edge. Forming a […]

Adams Needle Yucca

Yucca gets a bad rap as a landscape plant and who knows why!! Maybe because it seems common, maybe because it looks different, but this American Beauties native has a […]

Blue Elf Sedora

Steel-blue tufted foliage is accented by hundreds of pink, fragrant flowers. Easy to grow this colorful groundcover has excellent branching and is tolerant of hot dry conditions once it becomes […]

Concord Seedless Grape

Dependability is without question on this easy to grow vine that will give you gobs of deep purple, sweet Grapes that have the added pleasure of being seedless. There may […]

Flip Side Chastetree

Flip Side® is cloaked in 8-inch, fragrant, deep purple flowers that attract a nonstop parade of pollinators. It’s also a strong rebloomer. Flip Side® got its name because the greyish olive-green leaves […]

Periwinkle

A popular evergreen groundcover with deep purple flowers that open each spring, attracting butterflies. Tough and easy to grow, thriving in nearly every shaded landscape location. Tolerates dry soil once […]

Red Feather Arrowwood Viburnum

Dense and rounded with lustrous deep green foliage, Red Feather® produces dig flattened heads of white flowers in June that produce heads of purple berries in late summer that birds […]

Whitley’s Speedwell

Whitley’s Speedwell forms a mat of feathery olive-green leaves, bearing tiny sapphire-blue flowers that nestle on the stems in late spring. Makes a colorful and drought tolerant groundcover or lawn […]

Tidal Pool Speedwell

Plants cover themselves with medium to deep blue-violet flowers from late April into mid-May. The rest of the growing season, they settle into attractive groundcovers that seem to handle cold, heat, […]