From the Colorado Natives in Landscaping conference, hosted by the Colorado Native Plant Society. It was a lovely event with a great crowd of 400; I learned a lot yesterday about green roofs, insects, and seed biology.
As requested by someone in the room, here are the handful of short plant lists from species that were in the slides as they responded to specific locations.
Julie’s Yard:
Galleta grass (Pleuraphis jamesii)
(grow direct from seed, not plants)
Yucca faxoniana x rostrata
Artemisia cf. frigida (asian form?)
Atraphaxis sp.
Ptelia trifoliata, Quercus turbinella
(all unirrigated)
Shaeralcea monroana
Only surviver from windy weed disaster:
Giant Sacatongrass (Sporobolus wrightii)
Ephedra equisetina
Happy in Gravel garden:
Zinnia grandiflora,
Rhus trilobata ‘Autumn Ember’
Opuntia phaecantha
Stanleya pinnata
Cylindropuntia spp.
Berlandiera lyrata
A nice dry, reliable, colorful, long-lived simple palette:
Prairie Zinnia (Z. grandiflora)
Jones’ Bluestar (Amsonia jonesii)
Alkali dropseed (Sporobolus airoides)
Woodward Juniper (PlantSelect)
Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Use bareroot planting and temporary irrigation…
My pet fav Unirrigated shade tree:
Western Soapberry (Sapindus drumondii)
Also: hackberry, netleaf hackberry,
Meadows:
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
A full landscape with very very very salty soil:
Fourwing (Atriplex canescens)
Winterfat (K. lanata)
Babby rabbitbrush, Ephedras x3,
Amelanchier utahensis
Cylindroputnia kleniii
No big sagebrush!
Artemisia filifolia (sand sage)
Cupressus arizonica
Great to fill in by seed in bare dirt/gravel:
Penstemon eatonii, P. palmeri
Baileya multiradiata
Gaillardia aristata
Sphaeralcea monroana (best /reliable sp)
Berlandieria lyrata (Chocolat daisy)
Superdry southfacing slope in GJ:
Nolina microcarpa
Babby rabbitbrush
Sand sage
Coyote Gourd (Cucurbita foetidissam)
Grusonia clavata
Alkali dropseed
Specialties from seed for gravel and rock gardens:
Hymenoxys scaposa and caespitosa,
Castilleja integra
Dry (unwatered shade)
Nolina greenei, N. microcarpa
Ephedra viridis, teorreaya, equisentina, nebrodensis, major.
Mahonia repens (best with a little water/snow/shade/North)
Yucca baccata, harrimaniae (yes really)
Alkali dropseed (S. airoides)
More Great plants get introduced over time:
Baby/Miniature Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa v nauseosa)
Letterman’s Ironweed (Vernonia lettermanii)
future: Manfreda maculosa
Plant/Seed Sources:
Harlequin Gardens, Boulder
High Plains Environmental Center, Fort Collins
Chelsea Nursery, Grand Junction
Southwest Seed, Dolores, CO
Western Native Seed, CO
High Country Gardens (.com)
Granite Seed (.com)
Prairie Nursery (.com), WI
Wholesale:
Wildthings: Pueblo, CO
Fort Collins Wholesale CO
Bluebird Nursery, NE
As requested by someone in the room, here are the handful of short plant lists from species that were in the slides as they responded to specific locations.
Julie’s Yard: Galleta grass (Pleuraphis jamesii)
(grow direct from seed, not plants)
Yucca faxoniana x rostrata
Artemisia cf. frigida (asian form?)
Atraphaxis sp.
Ptelia trifoliata, Quercus turbinella
(all unirrigated)
Shaeralcea monroana
Only surviver from windy weed disaster:
Giant Sacatongrass (Sporobolus wrightii)
Ephedra equisetina
Happy in Gravel garden:
Zinnia grandiflora,
Rhus trilobata ‘Autumn Ember’
Opuntia phaecantha
Stanleya pinnata
Cylindropuntia spp.
Berlandiera lyrata
A nice dry, reliable, colorful, long-lived simple palette:
Prairie Zinnia (Z. grandiflora)
Jones’ Bluestar (Amsonia jonesii)
Alkali dropseed (Sporobolus airoides)
Woodward Juniper (PlantSelect)
Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Use bareroot planting and temporary irrigation…
My pet fav Unirrigated shade tree:
Western Soapberry (Sapindus drumondii)
Also: hackberry, netleaf hackberry,
Meadows:
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
A full landscape with very very very salty soil:
Fourwing (Atriplex canescens)
Winterfat (K. lanata)
Babby rabbitbrush, Ephedras x3,
Amelanchier utahensis
Cylindroputnia kleniii
No big sagebrush!
Artemisia filifolia (sand sage)
Cupressus arizonica
Great to fill in by seed in bare dirt/gravel:Penstemon eatonii, P. palmeri
Baileya multiradiata
Gaillardia aristata
Sphaeralcea monroana (best /reliable sp)
Berlandieria lyrata (Chocolat daisy)
Superdry southfacing slope in GJ:
Nolina microcarpa
Babby rabbitbrush
Sand sage
Coyote Gourd (Cucurbita foetidissam)
Grusonia clavata
Alkali dropseed
Specialties from seed for gravel and rock gardens:
Hymenoxys scaposa and caespitosa,
Castilleja integra
Dry (unwatered shade)Nolina greenei, N. microcarpa
Ephedra viridis, teorreaya, equisentina, nebrodensis, major.
Mahonia repens (best with a little water/snow/shade/North)
Yucca baccata, harrimaniae (yes really)
Alkali dropseed (S. airoides)
More Great plants get introduced over time:
Baby/Miniature Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa v nauseosa)
Letterman’s Ironweed (Vernonia lettermanii)
future: Manfreda maculosa
Plant/Seed Sources:
Harlequin Gardens, Boulder
High Plains Environmental Center, Fort Collins
Chelsea Nursery, Grand Junction
Southwest Seed, Dolores, CO
Western Native Seed, CO
High Country Gardens (.com)
Granite Seed (.com)
Prairie Nursery (.com), WI
Wholesale:
Wildthings: Pueblo, CO
Fort Collins Wholesale CO
Bluebird Nursery, NE
