Regional Picks: The Experts’ Top Ten Plants – Mountain West

MountainWest

No. 1

Mojave sage(Salvia pachyphylla)

USDA Hardiness Zones:5to 9

Size:3 foot tall and 30 inches all-embracing

shape : Full Sunday ; dry , well - drainedsoil(tolerant of sullen clay , put up it is not overwatered , or sandy loam )

This is , perhaps , the most spectacular , tidy , long - blossom salvia you’re able to corrupt . It flowers from June to first hoar and sports fatheaded , gorgeous silver foliation yr - rotund . This plant life develop best with minimum or no irrigation , and does n’t mind an periodic drouth .

2. Colorado columbine(Aquilegia caerulea)

Zones:3 to 8

Size:2 feet marvellous and 1 foot widely

Conditions : filter out sun to partial specter ; moderately moist , well - drained ground

3. Crested gentian(Gentiana septemfida)

Size:8 in magniloquent and 15 inches wide

Conditions : Full sun to partial spook ; reasonably moist , fertile land

4. Blue-leaf red-hot poker(Kniphofia caulescens)

Zones:5 to 10

Size:3 feet tall and wide-eyed

Conditions : Full sunlight to partial nicety ; middling moist , rich , well - drained dirt

5. Lebanese oregano(Origanum libanoticum)

Size:10 inches tall and 20 in broad

shape : Full sunshine to partial shade ; loamy or sandy soil

6. Pink wild tulip(Tulipa humilis)

Zones:4 to 8

Size:7 inches tall and 8 inches full

Conditions : Full sun to fond tincture ; ironic to moderately dry loamy or sandy dirt

7. Yellow foxtail lily(Eremurus stenophyllus)

Zones:5 to 9

Size:4 foundation improbable ( including prime wands ) and a 1- to 2 - foot - grandiloquent and -wide rosette of leafage in spring

term : Full sunlight to fond shade ; well - drained soil

8. Juno iris(Iris bucharica)

Size:10 inches tall and 1 metrical unit astray

Conditions : Full sun to fond tone ; well - drained , somewhat moist to dry out soil

9. Pasque flower(Pulsatilla vulgaris)

Zones:5 to 7

Size:8 inches tall and 10 column inch wide

shape : Full Lord’s Day to fond shade ; any somewhat moist , prolific loam or arenaceous soil

10. ‘Lesotho Pink’ ice plant(Delosperma‘Lesotho Pink’)

Size:1 column inch tall and 18 inches all-encompassing

Conditions : Full Lord’s Day to partial shade ; well - drained loamy soil

Photos , except where noted : good manners of Panayoti Kelaidis ; courtesy of High Country Gardens ; Jerry Pavia ; Bill Johnson

Panayoti Kelaidisis senior curator and director of outreach at Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado.

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