A little known conifer that’s one of our garden favorites, is Cupressus (Hesperocyparis) arizonica ‘Raywood’s Weeping’. We’re limited conifer-wise, compared to the Pacific Northwest, so we were thrilled to find such a superb weeping silver-blue foliaged, North American native, that thrives in our hot, humid climate. It can be staked as high as you’d like,
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One of the most popular garden specimen century plants has long been Agave parryi subspecies truncata. Due to their distribution in the Southwest US and Mexico, the hardiness of the various populations varies tremendously. These small (relatively speaking) century plants are mass-market landscape staples in warm temperate and frost-free parts of the desert southwest. Try
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In 2007, we released an amazing silver blue, winter hardy form of Agave x protamericana, named A. ‘Silver Surfer’. Unfortunately, the tissue culture lab that was producing it for us closed, and supplies over the last decade have been virtually non-existent. We’ve reverted by to our old, less efficient method of using offsets, which are
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